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Monteverdi: Il ottavo libro de madrigali, 1638 'Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi'
RecommendedConcerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
This is a sublime example of the madrigalian art. The disc oozes a sense of intelligent poetic response. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Biondi effortlessly surmounts the technical difficulties and stylistic challenges of each concerto. He also directs Europa Galante with characteristic vigour and aplomb — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Porpora: Il Maestro
RecommendedOpera Arias
Franco Fagioli (countertenor)
Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro de Marchi
Fagioli forges his own powerful execution out of practices that Porpora helped invent. Ornaments of fiendish length, tempo and range spur Fagioli onto ever-greater displays, racing ahead of... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2014
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Opera, January 2015, Recording of the Month
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Monteverdi: Vespri solenni per la festa di San Marco
RecommendedMonica Piccinini, Anna Simboli (sopranos), Andrea Arrivabene, Gianluca Ferrarini (altos), Luca Dordolo, Raffaele Giordani (tenors) & Matteo Bellotto, Salvo Vitale (bass)
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
Alessandrini’s Monteverdi interpretations resound with passion…a brilliantly conceived, scholastically sound and liturgically plausible sequence, burnished with spiritual sincerity. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2014, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Bizet - L' Arlésienne Orchestral Suites
RecommendedLes Musiciens du Louvre & Chœur de l’opéra de Lyon, Marc Minkowski
I find it hard to know what to praise most, the vivid, taut rhythms of the various marches and dances… the sensuous orchestral colours of the quieter moments, of the passion that suddenly erupts…... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2008, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2008, Disc of the Month
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Handel: Tamerlano
RecommendedXavier Sabata (Tamerlano), Max Emanuel Cencic (Andronico), John Mark Ainsley (Bajazet), Karina Gauvin (Asteria), Ruxandra Donose (Irene), Pavel Kudinov (Leone)
Il Pomo d’Oro, Riccardo Minasi
The cast is of exceptional and even strength...[Sabata and Cencic] deliver brilliant tone and lively fioritura, while the scenes between Sabata and Ainsley crackle with fury...An all-round outstanding... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2014, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended Recording
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Stravinsky & Prokofiev: Violin Concertos
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
Kopatchinskaja brings [virtuosity] to the [Stravinsky] in spades, but she also shatters the image of the work as a neo-classical homage to Bach...Her whole approach to Stravinsky...brings his... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Baroque Voices 11 - Pergolesi & Scarlatti: Stabat Mater
RecommendedGemma Bertagnolli & Sara Mingardo
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
This is a totally Italianate performance of both high drama and moving pathos...Alessandrini's instrumental support could not be more telling, and the recording is made in an ideal acoustic. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Vivaldi: Dorilla in Tempe
RecommendedRomina Basso (Dorilla), Serena Malfi (Elmiro), Marina de Liso (Nomio), Lucia Cirillo (Filindo), Sonia Prina (Eudamia), Christian Senn (Admeto)
I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis
Fasolis and I Barocchisti deliver a ripe and zesty performance…In this new account there is dramatic tautness to recitatives…Elmiro’s energetic Neapolitan-style arias by Hasse and Leo are sung... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd December 2017
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Vivaldi: Vespri solenni per la festa dell’Assunzione di Maria Vergine
RecommendedGemma Bertagnolli (soprano), Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Anna Simboli (soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Gianluca Ferrarini (tenor), Matteo Bellotto (baritone), Antonio De Secondi (violin)
Concerto Italiano ensemble vocale e strumentale, Rinaldo Alessandrini
This isn't the 'Vivaldi Vespers', or even a reconstruction of a specific event, but a kind of 'sacred concert' in Vespers form, of the sort that Venetian churches in Vivaldi's time would mount... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2004, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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