Harmonia Mundi
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Caldara: Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo
RecommendedMaria Cristina Kiehr (soprano), Rosa Dominguez (soprano), Bernarda Fink (alto), Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Ulrich Messthaler (bass), Gerd Türk (tenor)
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, René Jacobs
Caldara was the most prolific and famous oratorio composer of his day and this one, written around 1700, is wonderfully rich in fresh and attractive invention.
Practically devoid of external... — More…Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 1997, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Güra …deserves a place among the elite….it is the only one by a tenor recommendable at present. — More…
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Building a Library, June 2010, Featured
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Le Violon Vagabond: Graf Mourja
Works for piano & violin by Bartok, Manuel Ponce, Tchaikovsky, Paganini, Chedrine, Kroll, de Sarasate…
Graf Mourja (violin) & Natalia Gous (piano)
Ukrainian violinist Graf Mourja follows up his fine disc of Stravinsky and Szymanowski for Harmonia Mundi with a foray into more eclectic territory. This selection brings together the wild and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, Re-issue of the Month
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Gloryland
Folk songs, Spirituals, Gospel hymns of Hope & Glory
Darol Anger (violin & mandolin) & Mike Marshal (mandolins)
Anonymous 4
Anonymous 4 is the team of four women who were acclaimed for "American Angels", which stayed in the Billboard classical charts almost a year and a half, ending at the top. "Gloryland" is a... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2006, Editor's Choice
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Hugo Wolf: Kennst du das Land
lieder by Goethe, Eichendorff, Mörike
Sophie Karthäuser (soprano) & Eugene Asti (piano)
Karthauser…is sensitive to Wolf’s sour-sweet, ever-shifting harmonies, and the raw nerves of the melodic line as it responds to the verse. And she is warmly supported by every nuance of accompaniment... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2016, Editor's Choice
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Canciones y Ensaladas
RecommendedSongs and instrumental pieces of the Spanish Golden Age
Ensemble Clément Janequin, Dominique Visse
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Early Music
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Bach, J S: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6 BWV1046-1051
RecommendedRichard Egarr (harpsichord & direction) Joel Katzman, Amsterdam, 1991, after Ruckers, Antwerp, 1638, Tuning:A = 392
Academy of Ancient Music
The playing is ravishing in the chamber-music slow-movement textures. …a recording you must hear, if only to hear how the boundaries of these extraordinary concertos can be stretched. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th March 2009
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Lawes’s music is in general jolly and introspective by turns. Boothby plays in a charmingly gentle, often elegant yet spare way that suggests he is enjoying a private pleasure which we are nonetheless... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2016, Editor's Choice
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With Bertrand, tiny embellishments and a kaleidoscopic range of colours make listening a particular pleasure…You get the impression that she’s recalling the music from memory rather than reading... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2019, Editor's Choice
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…Baroque chamber-playing of the very highest order: sincerely conversational, emotive and finely nuanced. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Baroque Instrumental
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