Pentatone - up to 40% off
Until 21st August 2024, we are offering up to 40% off Pentatone titles, including CD, SACD, Vinyl and Downloads.
Pentatone, Handel (composer)
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Handel's Unsung Heroes Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Paul Sharp (trumpet), Christine Rice (mezzo), Roger Montgomery (horn), Joe Walters (horn), Lucy Crowe (soprano), Leo Duarte (oboe), Thomas Gould (violin), Joe Qiu (bassoon), La Nuova Musica, David Bates
This is a stunning collection of Handel opera numbers. For originality, risk-taking and erudition, it towers above its predecessors. It also benefits from its mix of soloists – having chosen... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, Recording of the Month
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Handel: Alcina RecommendedMagdalena Kožená (Alcina), Anna Bonitatibus (Ruggiero), Erin Morley (Morgana), Elizabeth DeShong (Bradamante), Alois Mühlbacher (Oberto), Alex Rosen (Melisso), Valerio Contaldo (Oronte)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
The orchestra plays with fastidious attention to Handel’s ever-changing palette, and its support for the singers – particularly with the obbligatos – is unfailingly sensitive. And the singers... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th February 2024
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Handel: Water Music and Music For the Royal Fireworks B'Rock (early music ensemble), Dmitry Sinkovsky
The braying of the brass, the keen but never acid oboes, the fleetness of the strings: all are a delight from first to last. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Handel: Concerti Grossi Op. 3 & Op. 6 Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Georg Kallweit (Op.3), Bernhard Forck (Op. 6)
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Aspromonte’s voluptuous, velvety soprano and vivid diction capture the emotional and rhetorical tensions of works that veer from grief to joy; my one caveat is that her colour palette and dynamic... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2022, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Handel: Concerti grossi Op. 6 (1-6) RecommendedAkademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck
Needless to say the playing is good, delivering exciting quick movements and some full-toned slower ones…As far as interpretation goes, it is essentially conventional. First violin Bernhard... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th July 2019
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The leader and director of the AAMBerlin’s ensemble, Georg Kallweit, is a sympathetic and responsive Handelian. He favours brisk tempos in faster movements, indulges in a pleasing rhythmic elasticity... — More…
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CANTATA - yet can I hear... Handel, Vivaldi, and Bach
Bejun Mehta (countertenor)
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Mehta’s voice remains light and graceful, and his general ability to move around the small notes is only occasionally compromised by untidiness. The period-instrument orchestra’s flautist, Christoph... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2018
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Diapason d’Or, May 2018, Nouveauté
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Kožená’s dramatic and vocal powers are wonderfully displayed in Gasparini’s kaleidoscope aria ‘Ombre, cure, sospetti’ (with its unrestrained runs and the bursts of emotion in its recitative-like... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Vocal
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year
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Handel: Parnasso in Festa, HWV73 David Hansen (Apollo), Robin Johannsen (Clio), Kangmin Justin Kim (Orfeo), Jenny Högstrom (Calliope), Silke Gäng (Cloride), Francesca Ascioti (Euterpe), Luca Tittoto (Marte)
La Cetra Barockorchester & Vokalensemble Basel, Andrea Marcon
Kangmin Justin Kim is steady and smooth as Orfeo…Good with text, Robin Johannsen’s Clio provides neat and attractive vocalism, while grander-scale soprano Jenny Högström’s vivid Calliope matches... — More…
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