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Handel: Italian cantatas
RecommendedSabine Devieilhe (soprano), Léa Desandre (mezzo)
Le Concert d'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord, organ and conductor)
This production is a delight throughout…Haïm retains control by preparing both the scores and the sopranos’ ornaments, her vision giving this carefully wrought performance a fiery intensity,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2018, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, Choral & Song Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Vocal
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Lorraine Hunt Lieberson: Handel Arias
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano), Stephen Stubbs, Phoebe Carrai, Margriet Tindemans, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Harry Bicket
If you knew nothing about the background to this 2003 recording it would still be one of the most poignant albums of Handel arias, for the intensity of engagement and communicative power of... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2025, Archive Choice
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Lucrezia (portraits of A Woman)
Sandrine Piau, Amel Brahim-Djelloul (sopranos), Karine Deshayes, Lucile Richardot (mezzos), Les Paladins, Jérôme Corréas
Beauty alone makes bearable each soloist ’s visceral enactment of female suffering. —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2025, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Voice & Ensemble
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Handel Edition Volume 8 - Theodora, Acis and Galatea, etc.
RecommendedSophie Daneman (Galatea), Paul Agnew (Acis), Alan Ewing (Polyphemus), Patricia Petibon (Damon), Joseph Cornwell (Coridon), Sophie Daneman (Theodora), Richard Croft (Septimius), Juliette Galstian (Irene), Daniel Taylor (Didymus), Nathan Berg (Valens), Laurent Slaars (Messenger), Eva Mei (soprano)
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Building a Library, September 2013, CD Recommendation
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Gérard Lesne - Italian Secular Cantatas
Gérard Lesne (alto), Sandrine Piau (soprano)
Il Seminario Musicale
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Lucrezia
Giovanni Togni (soloist, harpsichord), Gemma Bertagnolli (soloist, soprano (voice)), Marco Frezzato (soloist, cello)
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Special offer. Stefanie Irányi: Lamenti
Stefanie Irányi (mezzo), Rudiger Lotter, Ulrike Cramer (violins), Dietrich Cramer (viola), Isolde Hayer (cello), Olga Watts (harpischord), Gyongy Erodi (cello), Stephan Rath (lute)
Hofkapelle München, Michael Hofstetter
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FOGARTY, Melissa: Cantatas
Jennifer Griesbach (harpsichord), Melissa Fogarty (soprano), Christine Gummere (baroque cello), Amelia Roosevelt (baroque violin), Heide Powell (baroque violin), Daniel Swenberg (theorbo), Motomi Igarashi (double bass), Claire Jolivet (baroque violin)
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Scarlatti & Handel: Italian Cantatas
Gérard Lesne (alto), Sandrine Piau (soprano)
Il Seminario Musicale
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Arcadian Affairs - Georg Friedrich Handel: Continuo Cantatas
Georg Friedrich Handel: Continuo Cantatas
Christian Kjos, Ditte Marie Bræin, Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo-soprano)
The transparency of a fine copy of a late 17th-century Florentine instrument never risks an overload of density and the accompaniments never detract from the singers…[Bræin's] ornamentation... —
