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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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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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Whether singing or playing instruments, the musicians take great care not to overplay the composer’s subtle, complex counterpoint or to lose a sense of the overall line in the many virtuosic... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Early Music
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Galant Night Fever. Quartets, Trio and Duet For Flute, Strings and Basso The Wig Society Chamber Music Ensemble
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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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Frescobaldi and the South
Intendami chi può che m’intend’io
Francesco Corti (harpsichord), Andrés Locatelli
Francesco Corti captures both Frescobaldi's eccentric, improvisatory spirit on the one hand, and his rigorous precision and attention to detail on the other...The programme features two harpsichords... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2023
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Prima d’esservi infedele. Alessandro Scarlatti: Cantatas for Solo Voice with Violins Valeria La Grotta (soloist)
Quartetto Vanvitelli
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Harpa Romana. Arias & Cantatas by the 17th-Century Virtuosos Giovanni Sgaria (artdirector), Riccardo Pisani (soloist), Chiara Granata
La smisuranza
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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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To get an idea of the soundworld of Stefano Bernardi, an Italian plying his trade in early-17th-century Salzburg, think Monteverdi but without the flamboyance. He benefits from nicely nuanced... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, February 2020, Découverte
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