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Renaissance Lute Music Recommendedfeaturing works by Dowland / Ballard / Capirola / Cutting / Molinaro
Konrad Ragossnig (lute)
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Haydn: The Creation
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Sandrine Piau (Gabriel), Miah Persson (Eve), Ruth Massey (alto), Mark Padmore (Uriel), Neal Davies (Raphael), Peter Harvey (Adam)
Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players & Chetham's Chamber Choir, Paul McCreesh
The sheer magnificence of the choruses that provide the oratorio's structural pillars has rarely been so effectively realised on disc. McCreesh also has an exceptional set of soloists. The results... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th March 2008
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2008, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Winner - Choral
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Haydn: Nelson Mass & Te Deum
RecommendedFelicity Lott, Carolyn Watkinson, Maldwyn Davies, David Wilson-Johnson
The English Concert & Choir, Trevor Pinnock
The British Admiral had ousted the Napoleonic fleet at the Battle of the Nile just as Haydn was in the middle of writing his Nelson Mass. Although the news could not have reached him until after... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2003, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Winner - Period performance
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Bach, C P E: Hamburg Symphonies (6) for Strings, Wq. 182 (H657-662) RecommendedThe English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
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Gramophone Awards, 1980, Winner - Early Music
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Music For A While - Baroque Melodies Anne Sofie Von Otter (Soprano), Jakob Lindberg (guitar & lute), Anders Ericson (theorbo) & Jory Vinikour (harpsichord & organ)
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2005, Editor's Choice
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Bach, J S: St Matthew Passion, BWV244
RecommendedDeborah York, Julia Gooding (sopranos), Magdalena Kozená, Susan Bickley (mezzo-sopranos), Mark Padmore - Evangelist, James Gilchrist (tenors), Peter Harvey - Jesus, Stephan Loges (basses)
Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh
In the distinguished performance history of the Great Passion, this is a dynamic and powerful reading. What we have here, primarily, is a compelling directorial vision, a dramatically cohesive... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2003, Disc of the Month
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Building a Library, October 2022, Also Recommended
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Vivaldi: La stravaganza - 12 concerti, Op. 4 Simon Standage (violin), Micaela Comberti (violin), Jane Coe (cello)
The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
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Schumann - Complete Symphonies
RecommendedRoger Montgomery, Susan Dent, Gavin Edwards, Robert Maskell (horns)
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
The first point to note is how much more comprehensive this is than previous cycles, even the outstanding RCA set of period performances from Roy Goodman and the Hanover Band.
Gardiner offers... — More…Awards:
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Building a Library, November 2006, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Mozart: Idomeneo, K366
RecommendedAnthony Rolfe Johnson (Idomeneo), Anne Sofie von Otter (Idamantes), Sylvia McNair (Ilia), Hillevi Martinpelto (Elettra), Nigel Robson (Arbace)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Here's a performance that blends this conductor's love of scholarship with an unerring sense of theatre. The English Baroque Soloists are magnificent in a work that puts the chorus only one... — More…
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Building a Library, June 2007, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1991, Winner - Opera
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