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L'Arpeggiata: Los Pajaros Perdidos (Standard Version)
The South-American Project
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar (direction)
This may be a crossover disc, but it offers a fascinating fusion of early European and Latin American music, in what Pluhar, its director-theorbist, calls “South America’s living baroque”...If... — More…
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Gounod: Mors et Vita
Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Nadine Denize (mezzo), John Aler (tenor), José van Dam (bass-baritone)
Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse & Orféon Donostiarra, Michel Plasson
Despite a recessed recording, Plasson's remains a serviceable rendition of Gounod's grandiose conspectus of human spiritual experience. — More…
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Like all the finest recordings of Vivaldi's sublime hymn...Jaroussky strikes a contoured balance between poetic tenderness in the narrative, emotional expressiveness in the descriptions of Mary's... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 1997, Winner - Best-Selling Disc
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Offenbach: La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein
RecommendedDame Felicity Lott (La Grande Duchesse), Sandrine Piau (Wanda), Yann Beuron (Fritz), Franck Leguérinel (Le Baron Puck), Eric Huchet (Le Prince Paul), François Le Roux (Le Général Boum), Boris Grappe (Le Baron Grog), Alain Gabriel (Népomuc), Maryline Fallot (Iza), Blandine Staskiewicz (Olga), Jennifer...
Offenbach's 1867 opéra bouffe is here brought back to life in an all-singing, all-dancing staging that bursts with energy from start to finish. Laurent Pelly's production, recorded here at... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Mediterraneo
Nuria Rial soprano (Catalonia), Raquel Andueza soprano (Spain), Vincenzo Capezzuto voice (Italy) & Katerina Papadopoulou voice (Greece)
L’Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar
Misia is not exactly representative of traditional fado, and that is to the advantage of this collaboration, but paradoxically her singing here is the most traditional I have heard from her... — More…
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
RecommendedPhilippe Jaroussky (Orfeo), Amanda Forsythe (Euridice), Emőke Baráth (Amore)
Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera & I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis
Jaroussky is an engaging Orfeo, who sometimes puts expression before purity of sound...I Barocchisti, conducted by Diego Fasolis, make sure Gluck’s drama comes leaping vividly from the loudspeakers. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th May 2018
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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
Véronique Gens, Nathan Berg, Sophie Marin-Degor, Claire Brua, Sophie Daneman, Gaëlle Mechaly
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
William Christie's reading of Dido is very much in terms of the reputed French influence on Purcell. Overdotting, reverse dotting and inégalité are used throughout; the lines are often heavily... — More…
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Vivaldi - Concerti per mandolini
Concerti con molti strumenti
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (violin and direction)
This is exhilaratingly dangerous music-making, and it pays off. — More…
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