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Handel - Piangerò la sorte mia (from Giulio Cesare)
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A thoughtful assembly of music depicting affliction and repentance on the one hand and joy and desire on the other. The recording finds Sabine Devieilhe on sparkling form. Bach and Handel do... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2021, Recording of the Month
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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In this dazzling album, Sandrine Piau crowns her legacy as a Baroque prima donna...her informed additions subvert the original melodies and unleash a ferocious vocalism...Correas and the band... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, Opera Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal
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Händel Goes Wild
(jewel-case)
Valer Sabadus (countertenor), Nuria Rial (soprano)
L’Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar
Whether or not you like this kind of project, this one is expertly and beautifully done, with Handel’s lyrical greatness remaining plain for all to see. —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Ensemble (instrumental)
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Special offer. Pilar Lorengar
RecommendedBerlin, 1959 - 1962
Pilar Lorengar, Richard Klemm (viola da gamba), Siegfried Behrend (guitar), Hertha Klust (piano)
RIAS-Kammerchor, RIAS-Orchester RSO Berlin & Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
[an] abundance of delights … if you want to revel in the beauty and freshness of one of the postwar era’s most lovable soprano voices in its youthful prime, this is a set to head for. —
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Opera, September 2014, Recording of the Month
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Building a Library, July 2019, Also Recommended
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Emma Bell gets better and better. This sparkling recording confirms her reputation as one of the most exciting of the younger generation of Handelians. It's the suppleness of the voice that... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2005, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2005, Editor's Choice
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Coming soon. Joyce DiDonato: Drama Queens
Royal Arias from the 17th and 18th Centuries
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
DiDonato and Alan Curtis...have unearthed some Baroque rarities. Instead of Handel's Berenice, we have Orlandini's Berenice, whose 'Da torbida procella' is an ideal fit for DiDonato's spitfire... —
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Opera, January 2013, Recording of the Month
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Händel Goes Wild
(casebound deluxe)
Valer Sabadus (countertenor), Nuria Rial (soprano)
L’Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar
The Baroque instrumentalists display lyricism, drive, and percussive energy, and the jazz instrumentalists improvise on the germs of Handel’s imagination with infectious enthusiasm…There are... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Ensemble (instrumental)
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Magdalena Kozena - Enchantment
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo), Ludovít Marcinger (piano), Annick Massis (soprano), Henschel Quartet, Malcolm Martineau (piano), Graham Johnson (piano)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Prague Philharmonia, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Musica Antiqua Köln, Musica Florea, Gabrieli Consort and Players, Scottish...
Kožená has one of those voices that seem to go straight to the heart. —
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Handel: Cleopatra
Arias from Giulio Cesare
Natalie Dessay (soprano), Sonia Prina (contralto), Stephen Wallace (countertenor)
Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm
Dessay's sheer skilfulness comes across unscathed, not least in the later big outpourings of suffering —
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Amor Oriental: Handel alla Turca
Juanita Lascarro, Ahmet Özhan, Florin Cezar Ouatu
L'arte del mondo, Pera Ensemble, Werner Ehrhardt
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