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Corelli: Six Sonatas, Op. 5 RecommendedMichala Petri (recorder) & Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)
Petri and Esfahani's is an invigorating ensemble effort, each sparking off the other to foster a captivating directness whether sparkling or soulful. Nothing is safe or reverential, and yet there's... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2015, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2016, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Corelli's Sonatas have never felt more alive and less perfectly preserved than they do here, and if you care at all for the baroque repertoire or fine fiddle playing, you owe it to yourself to... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2003, Disc of the Month
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex & Apollon Musagète
RecommendedJennifer Johnston (Jocasta), Stuart Skelton (Oedipus), Gidon Saks (Creon) & Fanny Ardant (narrator)
Gentlemen of the Monteverdi Choir & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Johnston's superb interpretation lifts the whole performance up a couple of notches...But John Eliot Gardiner's conducting somehow misses the work's elusive power. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th April 2014
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Building a Library, May 2018, Recommended Recording
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Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Stravinsky
RecommendedPaul Crossley (piano), Cho-Liang Lin (violin), Yvonne Kenny (soprano), John Aler (tenor), Anne Sofie von Otter (Jocasta), Vinson Cole (Oedipus), Nicolai Gedda (Shepherd), Hans Sotin (Tiresias), Simon Estes (Messenger), Patrice Chéreau (narrator)
Philharmonia Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Los...
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Eighteenth-century English music lovers, it seems, were obsessed with the music of Corelli, in particular his concerti grossi; Manze's notes quote a lovely account of how, when the Op 6 concertos... — More…
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Handel: Concerti a Due Cori
RecommendedPetra Müllejans
Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz
Divided into two large groups, the Freiburg period players relish the distinctive sounds of their instruments, with particularly strongly flavoured oboes and proud horns. The vital overall sound... — More…
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The English Song Series Volume 7 - Benjamin Britten 1 RecommendedPhilip Langridge (tenor), Steuart Bedford (piano)
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Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
RecommendedJessye Norman (Jocasta) & Peter Schreier (Oedipus), Bryn Terfel (Creon), Harry Peeters (Tiresias), Robert Swensen (Shepherd), Michio Tatara (Messenger)
Saito Kinen Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
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Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
RecommendedJessye Norman (Jocaste), Thomas Moser (Oedipus), Alexandru Ionita (Shepherd), Michel Piccoli (narrator)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Colin Davis
The pace is unerringly right, the rhythms never monotonously mechanical, the score's phrasing and accents scrupulously realized...Jocastas notoriously tend to unsteadiness, but Jessye Norman... — More…
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