Academy of Ancient Music
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Immortal Beloved: Beethoven Arias
RecommendedChen Reiss (soprano), Oliver Wass (harp)
Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr
Reiss manages coloratura passages with ease, her tone bright and clear, her voice firm throughout its considerable range and she is always wonderfully in tune…The Academy of Ancient Music gives... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th March 2020
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Opera, May 2020, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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John Eccles: Semele
RecommendedAnna Dennis (Semele), Richard Burkhard (Jupiter), Helen Charlston (Juno), Aoife Miskelly (Ino), William Wallace (Athamas), Héloïse Bernard (Iris); Academy of Ancient Music Julian Perkins
Cast, band, director and sound are all top-notch, restoring Eccles’s score to its full glory...Thanks to Perkins’s deft casting, each principal’s vocalism and dramatis persona are wonderfully... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, Recording of the Month
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Opera, April 2021, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2021, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 30th January 2021, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Infinite Refrain: Music of Love’s Refuge RecommendedRandall Scotting (counter-tenor), Jorge Navarro Colorado (tenor), Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings
Scotting borrows your heart in Monteverdi’s ‘Con che soavità’ when a lover asks how can one speak and kiss at the same time, while conductor Laurence Cummings and the Academy of Ancient Music... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Treasures of Baroque Opera
RecommendedJanet Baker, Teresa Berganza, Catherine Bott, Luciano Pavarotti
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Handel: Rinaldo RecommendedCecilia Bartoli (Almirena), David Daniels (Rinaldo), Bernarda Fink (Goffredo), Gerald Finley (Argante), Luba Orgonasova (Armida), Daniel Taylor (Eustazio), Bejun Mehta (A Christian Magician)
Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
most familiar and unfamiliar opera: familiar because, as his lavish first stage work for London, it has been much written about both by modern historians and by the composer's contemporaries;... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2001, Winner - Editor's Choice
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A colourful panorama stylishly and affectionately executed by all concerned. — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Concerto (recorder)
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The Pure Voice of Emma Kirkby Emma Kirkby (soprano)
The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
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Bach Wedding Cantatas RecommendedEmma Kirkby
Academy of Ancient Music Chamber Ensemble, Christopher Hogwood
Veteran Bach soprano Emma Kirkby here performs a pair of solo cantatas both written for wedding services, one of which may even have been used at his own, with his wife Anna Magdalena as the... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Bartoli indeed thinks about everything she sings, and her whispered, beautifully phrased account of ‘Lascia ch’io pianga’ is carefully shaded, with decorations scrupulously delivered. Other,... — More…
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British Music Collection - Henry Purcell Emma Kirkby, Catherine Bott, John Mark Ainsley, David Thomas, Gerald Finley, Tommy Williams
Academy of Ancient Music Chorus & Orchestra, Christopher Hogwood
Christopher Hogwood makes us realise that for all the constraints, this score isn't inherently small-scale and warrants all the subtlety of colour that can be achieved using 12 soloists and... — More…
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