Monteverdi - Pur ti miro (I gaze upon you) from L'Incoronazione di Poppea
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This is perfect ground for Lindsey and Cohen, both extremely accomplished and transformative performers of Baroque music...Her extraordinary vocal evocations are complemented throughout by the... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2021, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, Opera Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Vocal
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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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Special offer. Infinite Refrain: Music of Love’s Refuge
RecommendedRandall Scotting (counter-tenor), Jorge Navarro Colorado (tenor), Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings
Scotting borrows your heart in Monteverdi’s ‘Con che soavità’ when a lover asks how can one speak and kiss at the same time, while conductor Laurence Cummings and the Academy of Ancient Music... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Richter’s declamatory storytelling reaches an impressive peak in the Lamento d’Arianna where every device of characterisation and emotional evocation is brilliantly deployed, including a collapse... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2021, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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On the Trail of Marco Polo
Lautten Compagney, Wu Wei (harmonica), Eva Mattes (speaker), Eva Mattes (vocal)
Wolfgang Katschner
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This is a highly polished modern brass quintet playing Renaissance arrangements with solemn precision and occasional dancing exuberance. The recorded sound’s terrific and the project is well-documented — More…
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A Trace of Grace
Steve Swallow (double bass), Guillemette Laurens (vocals), Michel Godard (serpent), Gavino Murgia (saxophone), Fanny Paccoud (violin), Bruno Helstroffer (theorbo), Michel Godard (double bass)
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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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Kožená teams up with crack period band La Cetra, whose virtuoso solo contributions are a delight, yet the voice isn't quite what it was - more diffuse, painting with broader tonal brushstrokes.... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Amore e morte dell’amore
Duets by Monteverdi, Marcello, Handel, Scarlatti, Lotti, Durante
Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Sonia Prina (contralto) & Luca Pianca (lute, conductor)
Throughout the disc the continuo battery of Ensemble Claudiana provides colourful support...But the disc belongs to Invernizzi and Prina, who aptly cap a feast of glorious Handelian virtuosity. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2013, Editor's Choice
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