Summer Opera Sale - Up to 40% off
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Summer Opera Sale - Up to 40% off, Anna Dennis (soprano)
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Purcell: King Arthur RecommendedAnna Dennis, Mhairi Lawson, Rowan Pierce, Carolyn Sampson (sopranos), Jeremy Budd (high tenor), James Way (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone), Ashley Riches (bass-baritone)
Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh
Choruses are more vibrant, dance rhythms more percussive and solos more delicate than in any previous recording. Above all, McCreesh and his artists make us hear Purcell’s genius for word-setting…But... — More…
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2019, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Opera, February 2020, Disc of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Winner - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Recording of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Opera
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Handel: Amadigi di Gaula Tim Mead (Amadigi), Mary Bevan (Melissa), Anna Dennis (Oriana), Hilary Summers (Dardano), Patrick Terry (Orgando), Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn
Handel took a less-is-more approach to his Amadigi di Gaula. Christian Curnyn’s answering restraint reveals the stark solos, shimmering textures, ringing silences and stunning one-to-a-part... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2022, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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John Eccles: Semele RecommendedAnna Dennis (Semele), Richard Burkhard (Jupiter), Helen Charlston (Juno), Aoife Miskelly (Ino), William Wallace (Athamas), Héloïse Bernard (Iris); Academy of Ancient Music Julian Perkins
Cast, band, director and sound are all top-notch, restoring Eccles’s score to its full glory...Thanks to Perkins’s deft casting, each principal’s vocalism and dramatis persona are wonderfully... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, Recording of the Month
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Opera, April 2021, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2021, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 30th January 2021, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
2 CDs
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Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria Furio Zanasi (Ulisse), Lucile Richardot (Penelope), Krystian Adam (Telemaco), Hana Blažíková (Minerva / Fortuna), Gianluca Buratto (Tempo / Nettuno / Antinoo)
Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Faced with lots of recitative and practically no arias, singers and players abandon themselves to intense arioso, jazzy cross-rhythms between poetry and continuo, and take-no-prisoners dissonances.... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, Recording of the Month
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International Opera Awards, 2019, Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
3 CDs
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Handel: Joshua, HWV 64 Kenneth Tarver (Joshua), Tobias Berndt (Caleb), Renata Pokupic (Othniel) & Anna Dennis (Achsah)
NDR Choir & Göttingen Festival Orchestra, Laurence Cummings
the FestspieleOrchester Göttingen, playing with exceptional grace and clarity, and the nimble, noble NDR Choir, emoting with fabulous power and dymanic range. The disc has expressively rich... — More…
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Rushton: The Shops Darren Abrahams (tenor), Anna Dennis (soprano), Phyllis Cannan (contralto), Richard Burkhard (baritone), Louise Mott (mezzo-soprano) & Paul Reeves (bass)
The Opera Group, Patrick Bailey
Patrick Bailey ably conducts the Opera Group’s excellent performance, recorded at live London performances last year. Doubtless, some will buy this disc to keep their NMC collection up to date.... — More…
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Handel: Siroe, King of Persia, HWV24 Yosemeh Adjei (Siroe), Anna Dennis (Emira), Aleksandra Zamojska (Laodice), Antonio Giovannini (Medarse), Lisandro Abadie (Cosroe) & Ross Ramgobin (Arasse)
FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Laurence Cummings
The arias are without exception quite stunning and it is surprisingly fresh and has moments of real beauty and imagination. — More…
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Rameau: Anacreon Matthew Brook (Anacréon), Anna Dennis (Chloé) & Agustín Prunell-Friend (Batile)
The Choir of the Enlightenment & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Jonathan Williams
Rameau fans will rejoice over this world premiere recording … there’s elegant, expressive heart-warming singing from Matthew Brook and Anna Dennis. One of the chief pleasures lies in the band’s... — More…
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Handel: Rodelinda Anna Dennis (Rodelinda), Christopher Lowrey (Bertarido), Thomas Cooley (Grimoaldo), Franziska Gottwald (Eduige), Julien Van Mellaerts (Garibaldo), Owen Willetts (Unulfo)
FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Laurence Cummings
Cummings, a seasoned and sensitive Handelian, directs his firstrate period band with a vivid sense of colour, character and dramatic situation. The Göttingen cast is uniformly strong. — More…
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At its best, the music of Rodrigo has an invigorating freshness, its raw, sometimes gawky energy tempered by an Italianate melodic suavity that Handel had honed in his cantatas...Cummings directs... — More…
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