Early Music - up to 35% off selected titles
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Early Music - up to 35% off selected titles, Arcana (label)
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Pergolesi: Messa in Re maggiore & Motetto 'Dignas laudes resonemus' Marlis Petersen & Marta Fumagalli
Coro E Orchestra Ghislieri, Guilio Prandi
While his Stabat Mater and Magnificat are relatively well-known, there are other sacred works which, if this CD is anything to go by, are equally fine and deserve hearing. Backed by the musicological... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, June 2018, Découverte
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Duel: Porpora and Handel in London Giuseppina Bridelli (mezzo)
Le Concert de l'Hostel Dieu, Franck-Emmanuel Comte
Bridelli's strong mezzo voice provides fine advocacy for Porpora's long lyrical lines, especially in 'Nume che reggi' and in the drama of 'Dolce è su queste', a richly accompanied recitative. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2019, Opera Choice
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Opera, July 2019, Disc of the Month
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Telemann: Ouvertures à 8 for 3 oboes, bassoon, strings and continuo Zefiro Baroque Orchestra, Alfredo Bernardini
The much-vaunted lean muscularity of the Ensemble Zefiro...produces a freshly balanced sonority that alters our experience of these works...Special praise is due to the superb, unstinting continuo... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Baroque Instrumental
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Stradella: Il Trespolo tutore Riccardo Novaro (Trespolo), Roberta Mameli (Artemisia), Silvia Frigato (Ciro), Luca Cervoni (Simona), Rafał Tomkiewicz (Nino), Paola Valentina Molinari (Despina), Ensemble Mare Nostrum, Andrea De Carlo
The splendid bass Riccardo Novaro brings rich tone, perfect timing and a real sense of character to the title role, a truly commanding performance...De Carlo’s pacing is exemplary, though he... — More…
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Opera, February 2021, Disc of the Month
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Giosquino: Josquin Desprez in Italia Odhecaton, The Gesualdo Six, La Pifarescha, La Reverdie, Paolo Da Col
Lacking the brightness of trebles or sopranos, the vocal sound is warm, dark, plangent – compared with the glassy textures of The Tallis Scholars (who’ve recently recorded Josquin’s complete... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, October 2021, Nouveauté
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Early Music
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Carmignola asserts his own special interpretative proclivities: the magical musical intakes of breath during and at the ends of phrases, the endlessly flexible handling of dynamics, and a temporal... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2022, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Corbetta: La Guitarre Royalle Gabriele Miracle, Simone Vallerotonda, Bor Zuljan (lute), Monica Piccinini (soloist), Davide Benetti (soloist), Stefano Todarello, Francesca Boncompagni (soloist), I Bassifondi
I Bassifondi
there’s a real sense of a relaxed, even jazzy leaning into not just the music’s but the plucked string’s poignantly evanescent quality. — More…
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Handel: Winged Hands RecommendedThe Eight Great Suites & Overtures
Francesco Corti (harpsichord)
Corti’s playing throughout can be described as electric: his playing lacks nothing in terms of pure excitement and adrenaline. He also goes for a big, one can even say orchestral, sound in many... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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This is only the third anthology devoted to Loyset Compère, whose 500th death-anniversary falls next year; but it is a fitting commemoration, for both music and performance are on a pleasingly... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Early Music
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Fux: La Corona d'Arianna Monica Piccinini (Venere), Carlotta Colombo (Arianna), Marianne Beate Kielland (Teti), Rafał Tomkiewicz (Bacco), Meili Li (Peleo)
Zefiro, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Alfredo Bernardini
La Corona d'Arianna is wonderful in this version by director Alfredo Bernardini, who drastically shortened the opera due to 2022 COVID measures...The stand-out principal is Carlotta Colombo.... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, Opera Choice
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