Les Arts Florissants Editions
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There are some delightfully sparkling and engaging displays here...recordings of Monteverdi's very early madrigals are rare and this surpasses some...if not all. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Monteverdi Madrigali Volume 2: Mantova
Excerpts from Books IV, V and VI
Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew
This group of performers is commendably aware of [the] move towards expressive freedom: we get from them searing moments of deep anguish...and mesmerising stillness...[and] the finest performance... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Disc of the Month
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Handel: Music for Queen Caroline
Tim Mead (countertenor), Sean Clayton (tenor) & Lisandro Abadie (baritone)
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
The instrumental performance under William Christie is skilfully coloured —
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Le Jardin de Monsieur Rameau
The Garden of Mr. Rameau
Daniela Skorka (soprano), Emilie Renard (mezzo), Benedetta Mazzucato (mezzo), Zachary Wilder (tenor), Victor Sicard (baritone), Cyril Costanzo (bass)
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
The results of this summer course are impressive. Monteclair's prologue to Jephthe is an arresting opener with Les Arts Florissants in characteristically stylish form. Daniela Skorka is geuninely... —
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Handel: Belshazzar
Allan Clayton (Belshazzar, King of Babylon), Rosemary Joshua (Nitocris), Iestyn Davies (Daniel, Hebrew Prophet), Caitlin Hulcup (Cyrus: Persian Prince), Jonathan Lemalu (Gobrias, Assyrian Nobleman), Jean-Yves Ravoux (Arioch, Babylonian Lord), Geoffroy Buffière, Thibaut Lenaerts, Michael-Loughlin...
Here is an orchestral sound of defiant grandeur expressive and uninhibited choral singing, an energy suggestive of live performance, and a quirky balance that highlights a sinuous viola line... —
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