Harmonia Mundi
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The singers make a beautifully balanced sound with impressive fluency across each style...there is a pleasing tension between a consort blend and the vital quirkiness of individual voices...Jourdain’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Early Music
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Uncertainty over the authenticity of the violin sonatas, coupled with the fact that Handel and his publisher were notoriously imprecise about which instruments his various solo sonatas were... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2001, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. The Phoenix Rising
RecommendedThe Carnegie Trust & the revival of Tudor Church Music
Stile Antico
The expertise of the Stile Antico group in this repertory is not in doubt and, as always, these singers give us splendid performances. Gibbon's O Clap Your Hand, for example, has a sure-footed... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th July 2013
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Early Music
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Special offer. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto & Symphony No. 5
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
Faust is the Wise Child of the violin world, combining the innocent exuberance of a prodigy with a commanding intellectual depth that carries all before it…If the Reformation is harder to love... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th August 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Deeply compelling, tonally beguiling, technically immaculate accounts that exalt in Schubert’s insatiable melodic genius and explore the dark recesses of his creative psyche to devastating effect — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st April 2008
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2008, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2008, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2008
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As always, Paul Lewis offers playing of rare insight and intelligence. He is just as much at home in the dazzling brilliance of the C major Sonata, Op. 2 No. 3...as in the graceful lyricism... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd July 2007
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2007, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
RecommendedJohannes Weisser (Don Giovanni), Lorenzo Regazzo (Leporello), Alexandrina Pendatchanska (Donna Elvira), Olga Pasichnyk (Donna Anna), Kenneth Tarver (Don Ottavio), Sunhae Im (Zerlina), Nikolay Borchev (Masetto), Alessandro Guerzoni (Il Commendatore)
Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs
If Jacobs is hardly the first modern conductor to present the opera in its 'original colours', his Don Giovanni is among the liveliest and most enjoyable on offer. It is certainly one of the... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st October 2007
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2007, Disc of the Month
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Special offer. Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale
RecommendedCantus Cölln, Concerto Palatino, Konrad Junghänel
The performance is quite simply outstanding, the voices and strings of Cantus Colln penetratingly focused yet consistently alive, cornets and trombones of Concerto Palatino warm, enveloping... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5
RecommendedPaul Lewis (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlávek
This new set of the Beethoven concertos is interestingly different in emphasis, in that whereas I had previously thought of Lewis as primarily a thoughtful, searching player...these accounts... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th July 2010
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2010, Disc of the Month
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Paul Lewis is a serious artist, and the quality of his playing, beautifully captured by Harmonia Mundi's engineers, is of a very high standard throughout. Particularly fine is the Waldstein... — More…
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Building a Library, March 2016, Also Recommended
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2006, Disc of the Month
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