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this is an admirable recording of a rich and fascinating collection. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2023, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Finalist - Choral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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The only relatively familiar piece is Vivaldi’s Stabat mater...In the other pieces, Scholl sings with a grave beauty, with impeccable intonation and no changes of gear. — More…
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Monteverdi: Vespri solenni per la festa di San Marco
RecommendedMonica Piccinini, Anna Simboli (sopranos), Andrea Arrivabene, Gianluca Ferrarini (altos), Luca Dordolo, Raffaele Giordani (tenors) & Matteo Bellotto, Salvo Vitale (bass)
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
Alessandrini’s Monteverdi interpretations resound with passion…a brilliantly conceived, scholastically sound and liturgically plausible sequence, burnished with spiritual sincerity. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2014, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Many vocal skills we now admire in opera were born in the early 17th century. These performances centre upon the techniques of the early solo singer-composers, wonderfully resurrected here by... — More…
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021, Baroque vocal
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2021
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With Concerto Italiano we get more chiaroscuro in the tone, a broader canvas and bigger gestures that feel more organic than La Venexiana’s occasionally micromanaged articulation. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Early Music
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She proves to be a fine composer, her double-choir psalms full of textural contrasts, her motets deeply expressive. The single work not by her, Caterina Assandra’s slightly earlier Duo Seraphim,... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, Summer Issue 2019
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2019, Winner - Baroque vocal
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Vivaldi: Arie e cantate per contralto
Delphine Galou (contralto)
Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone
In the arias from Vivaldi’s opera Galou is at her most flexible and assured. In ‘Si, si, bel volto’ she handles the thoughtful silences and reflections of the lover with consummate skill, and... — More…
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[Galou] Her ability to caress a vocal line, and to give it presence and body, even when she is singing softly, comes to the fore as early as in the central aria (“Sileant zephyr”) from Filiæ... — More…
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a good deal of the music’s vitality here comes from the performances, which treat it with respect, imagination and skill. Vendittelli is a singer whose stage experience shows in her natural... — More…
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Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Werner Gura (tenor), Christopher Purves (bass-baritone)
Accentus Chamber Choir, Insula Orchestra, Laurence Equilbey
Balance generally...is superbly managed by the experienced conductor, Laurence Equilbey...Her soloists, too, match well as a quartet...for all Equilbey's avoidance of theatricality it's the... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Choral & Song Choice
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