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Monteverdi - Si dolce è'l tormento (from Libro Nono di Magrigali e Canzonette)
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Choral » Madrigals & Partsongs
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Monteverdi - Teatro d'Amore
RecommendedNuria Rial (soprano), Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Cyril Auvity (tenor), Jan van Elsacker (tenor) & Joaõ Fernandes (bass)
L’Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar
The gorgeous singing of the soloists and stylish instrumental performances, though dazzling and gimlet-eyed, are also elegant and respectful without being obsequiously slavish to convention. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th January 2009
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The clutch of Spanish songs is enthralling...Despite the machine having so many intricate moving parts, there is enjoyable coherence to the broader ebb and flow of this imaginative programme — More…
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Songs of Orpheus
RecommendedMonteverdi, Caccini, Merula, Brunelli, Castello, Cima, Landi
Karim Sulayman (tenor)
Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell
Sulayman’s approach tends more towards the lyrical than the rhetorical – his lucid, velvety tenor and pop-star charisma best suited to melodious arias rather than the text-driven stile recitativo…Under... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2018), Winner - Classical Solo Vocal Album
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The instrumental contributions throughout are a real highlight…and Mields’s artless delivery makes for an attractive and infinitely listenable recital, even if musical passions never quite glow... — More…
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Special offer. Magdalena Kozená: Lettere Amorose
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo soprano)
Private Musicke, Pierre Pitzl
She soars the heights and plumbs the depths with fitting ardour...it is hard not to be swept away by such intensity felt and highly dramatic readings...[Pitzl] and his crack instrumental ensemble... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Recital
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, Choral & Song Choice
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Special offer. Bel Canto from Monteverdi to Verdi
Simone Kermes (soprano)
Concerto Köln, Christoph-Mathias Mueller
The programme is expressly devised so that Kermes can shed new light on 19th-century vocal writing, applying the stylistic approaches she has developed in music of earlier eras: her trademark... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Recital
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Sogno Barocco (Baroque Dream)
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo soprano), Sandrine Piau (soprano), Susanna Sundberg (contralto)
Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo García Alarcón
Every rhetorical device is skilfully exploited, every phrase glows...For many listeners, however, Von Otter's duets with Sandrine Piau will be the highlight. Stylistically, temperamentally and... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2013, Opera Choice
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Building a Library, November 2016, Also Recommended
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On the Trail of Marco Polo
Lautten Compagney, Wu Wei (harmonica), Eva Mattes (speaker), Eva Mattes (vocal)
Wolfgang Katschner
