Ann Hallenberg
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Handel: Ottone RecommendedMax Emanuel Cenčić (Ottone), Lauren Snouffer (Teofane), Pavel Kudinov (Emireno), Ann Hallenberg (Gismonda), Xavier Sabata (Adalberto), Anna Starushkevych (Matilda)
Il Pomo d’Oro, George Petrou
The leading man is Max Emanuel Cenčić (Ottone), his tone keen, flexible and brilliant…[Xavier Sabata] brings emotionality and intelligence to the role of Adalberto…Ann Hallenberg as Gismonda,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Opera Recording
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Record Review, 17th June 2017, Recording of the Week
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Opera, August 2017, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Opera
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Arias from each role might as well have been tailor-made for Hallenberg’s pinpoint virtuosity and lyricism, communicative use of language, idiomatic embellishment, intelligently sculpted phrasing... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, Editor's Choice
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Finalist - Opera
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Record Review, 8th July 2017, Recording of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Recital
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Hallenberg is on scintillating form, fluent alike in bravura, of which Graun's 'Mi paventi' with horns provides a dazzling example, and cantilena. The instrumental support provided by Il Pomo... — More…
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Vocal Finalist
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Opera, July 2015, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2016, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Farinelli - A Portrait
Live in Bergen
Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
Hallenberg is a force of nature, in stark contrast to the synthetic singing of the film, for which sound engineers fuse a mezzo with a male alto voice. Hallenberg’s voice is unmistakably her... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2017, Opera Choice
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Opera, February 2017, Recording of the Month
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Vivaldi: Orlando Furioso, RV728
Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Jennifer Larmore, Veronica Cangemi, Philippe Jaroussky, Lorenzo Regazzo, Ann Hallenberg, Blandine Staskiewicz
Choeur Les Eléments & Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi
Jean-Christophe Spinosi's imaginative interpretation of Vivaldi's Orlando, excellently cast and performed. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2005, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2005, Editor's Choice
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Handel: Tolomeo, Re di Egitto HWV25
Ann Hallenberg (Tolomeo), Karina Gauvin (Seleuce), Anna Bonitatibus (Elisa), Romina Basso (Alessandro), Pietro Spagnoli (Araspe)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
Tolomeo is sung here by Ann Hallenberg, whose range of technical skills includes neat runs and a very presentable trill. As his wife Seleuce, Karina Gauvin is charming, and decorates her music... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2008, Editor's Choice
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Arias for Luigi Marchesi
The great castrato of the Napoleonic era
Ann Hallenberg (mezzo)
Stile Galante, Stefano Aresi
There is perhaps no singer better able to meet this challenge than Swedish mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg: her rich timbre, the evenness of her register and the precision of her intonation evoke... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2015, Opera Choice
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These are all arie aggiunte...and tell us as much about the singers of Handel's era as they do about the characters they played. For Hallenberg, there is an extra challenge as she adapts her... — More…
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Opera, September 2013, Recording of the Month
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Gluck: Ezio
RecommendedOriginal Prague version (1750)
Sonia Prina (Ezio), Max Emanuel Cencic (Valentiniano), Ann Hallenberg (Fulvia), Topi Lehtipuu (Massimo), Julian Pregardien (Varo), Mayuko Karasava (Onorio)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
What it reveals may surprise listeners. Though couched in the classic opera seria mode of the time...it shows that, like Handel [Gluck] could imbue the traditional form with drama...the succession... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th September 2011
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Vivaldi: Tito Manlio RV 738
Nicola Ulivieri, Karina Gauvin, Debora Beronesi, Ann Hallenberg, Marijana Mijanovic, Barbara Di Castri, Mark Milhofer, Christian Senn
Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone
The cast, headed by Karina Gauvin in the heroic castrato role of Manlio, son of Tito Manlio, is very good indeed. Notwithstanding a few cuts, this production is a triumph prefaced, in the absence... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2006, Disc of the Month
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