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JS Bach: Concertos for Pianos
Evgeni Koroliov (piano), Ljupka Hadzi-Georgieva (piano), Anna Vinnitskaya (piano)
Kammerakademie Potsdam
Those who want all of Bach’s multiple keyboard concertos on the piano cannot do better. Highly recommended. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Instrumental
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The playing is exemplary, and the beautifully balanced recording allows every textural and coloristic shift to register…Prégardien sings with wonderful elegance and unforced sincerity of expression,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2018
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Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire
RecommendedPatricia Kopatchinskaja (violin/sprechgesang), Meesun Hong (violin), Julia Gallego (flute), Reto Bieri (clarinet), Thomas Kaufmann (cello), Joonas Ahonen (piano), Marko Milenkovic (viola)
Kopatchinskaja’s approach – sharp-focus, hyper-detailed and searching out over-the-top extremes of vocal delivery – is remarkable in its way...The upside is the superlatively precise and stylish... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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This new arrangement by Simone Menezes – here conducting the Philharmonia Zürich – preserves the epic scale of Vi l l a-Lobos ’s revised work, renosing it into a more practical 45-minute symphonic... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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At once, I became a captive audience, scarcely comprehending the wit and originality of ideas and the composer’s colourful instrumentation. —
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Building A Library, February 2022, Also Recommended
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Van Mechelen carefully chose the repertoire, not merely for the most suitable vocal writing but also to illustrate some of Clérambault’s preoccupations…From the opening track, the musicians... —
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Diapason d’Or, March 2018, Nouveauté
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Special offer. Monteverdi: l'Orfeo
Mariana Flores (soloist), Nicholas Scott (soloist), Julie Roset (soloist), Alessandro Giangrande (soloist), Valerio Contaldo (soloist), Carlo Vistoli (soloist), Matteo Belotto (soloist), Giuseppina Bridelli (soloist), Ana Quitans (soloist), Salvo Vitale (soloist), Alejandro Meerapfel (soloist), Philippe...
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Miserere: Clérambault & Couperin
RecommendedIsabelle Druet, Hasnaa Bennani, Claire Lefilliâtre
Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre
These performances, in a nicely-captured resonant acoustic, are engaging and expertly ornamented. Hasnaa Bennani is particularly affecting in the first of Couperin's Lessons for the Wednesday... —
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Building a Library, November 2018, Also Recommended
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Bach - Secular Cantatas
Monika Frimmer (soprano), Robin Blaze (alto), Markus Schäfer (tenor) & Stephan MacLeod (bass)
Café Zimmermann & Les Chantres du centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Gustav Leonhardt & Olivier Schneebeli
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Henry du Mont - Grands motets for the chapel of Louis XIV at the Louvre
Ensemble Pierre Robert, Frédéric Desenclos (organ, Claude Parizot 1739 & direction)
Henry Du Mont has long been credited as one of the creators, alongside Lully, of the grandmotet, the opulent style of church composition for soloists, choir and orchestra associated with Louis... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2005, Editor's Choice
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