Harmonia Mundi
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The pianist, Vincent Coq, is both brilliant and sensitive, taking great trouble over balance with the strings while dazzling the ear with his lightly scintillating virtuosity in the more sparkling... — More…
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Special offer. Handel: Water Music Suites Nos. 1-3, HWV348-350
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Georg Kallweit
The piece's vitality and brilliance of invention shine forth in the strongest and most appealing orchestral colours…the quality of playing is extraordinary…the period instruments register superbly... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2016, Disc of the month
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Special offer. Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384
RecommendedMari Eriksmoen (Blondchen), Robin Johannsen (Konstanze), Maximilian Schmitt (Belmonte), Julian Prégardien (Pedrillo), Dimitry Ivashchenko (Osmin), Cornelius Obonya (Bassa Selim)
RIAS Kammerchor & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs
Here’s another Mozart Singspiel recreated as an audio-drama, with both René Jacobs’s intensely musical direction, orchestral playing tingling with character and detail...Dimitry Ivashchenko‘s... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Lawes’s music is in general jolly and introspective by turns. Boothby plays in a charmingly gentle, often elegant yet spare way that suggests he is enjoying a private pleasure which we are nonetheless... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2016, Editor's Choice
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…Baroque chamber-playing of the very highest order: sincerely conversational, emotive and finely nuanced. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Baroque Instrumental
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Special offer. Berlioz & Ravel: Song Cycles
RecommendedBernarda Fink (mezzo)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano
Bernarda Fink's strong, flexible voice is well matched to all that Ravel asks of her, from the lively snapshots of the Greek folksongs to the long, languorous lines of Shéhérazade. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd July 2007
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Special offer. Oswald von Wolkenstein: Songs of Myself
Andreas Scholl (countertenor, baritone)
Shield of Harmony Ensemble, Crawford Young (director)
Scholl seems fully at ease in this, his own musical heritage, which he delivers with a keen awareness of poetic shape and nuance, and of the fine line between speech and song in the nascent... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2010, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Crystal Tears (+free dvd)
RecommendedJohn Dowland & his contemporaries
Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Julian Behr (lute)
Concerto di Viole
There is some magical singing here, and Scholl is supported by instrumental playing of rare subtlety and real finesse. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th May 2008
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Special offer. Bach, C P E: Symphony in E flat major, Wq. 179 (H654), etc.
RecommendedRaphael Alpermann (harpsichord) & Peter Bruns (cello)
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
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Building a Library, September 2005, Highly Recommended
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Steger's virtuosity is, from a listener's viewpoint and indeed from his own, breathtaking, and he loses no opportunity in demonstrating it. For my taste, though, there is too much gimmickry... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2014, Editor's Choice
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