Harmonia Mundi - up to 30% off
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Harmonia Mundi - up to 30% off, Academy of Ancient Music (early music ensemble)
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Special offer. Handel - Concerti Grossi, Op. 3
RecommendedThe Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr
I can’t think of anything that would improve this package: performances are stylish and beautifully polished. The recording is a beauty — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2007, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Building a Library, October 2017, First Choice
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Special offer. Handel: Concerti grossi Op. 6 Nos. 1-12 HWV319-330
RecommendedAcademy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze
Widely considered state-of-the-art on their first release, these recordings by the Academy of Ancient Music combine hyper-vivid articulation with wonderful poise and panache, plus a lovely soulfulness... — More…
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Building A Library, March 2024, Recommended Recording
2 CDs
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Eighteenth-century English music lovers, it seems, were obsessed with the music of Corelli, in particular his concerti grossi; Manze's notes quote a lovely account of how, when the Op 6 concertos... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2018, Also recommended
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Special offer. Handel: Organ Concertos, Op. 4 Nos. 1-6, HWV289-294
RecommendedThe Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr (organ & direction)
There is a freshness and sense to what (Egarr) does which becomes more apparent with every hearing — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th February 2008
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Baroque Instrumental
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Special offer. Bach, J S: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6 BWV1046-1051
RecommendedRichard Egarr (harpsichord & direction) Joel Katzman, Amsterdam, 1991, after Ruckers, Antwerp, 1638, Tuning:A = 392
Academy of Ancient Music
The playing is ravishing in the chamber-music slow-movement textures. …a recording you must hear, if only to hear how the boundaries of these extraordinary concertos can be stretched. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th March 2009
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Special offer. Bach - Harpsichord Concertos
RecommendedRichard Egarr (harpsichord), Rachel Brown (flute)
The Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze
While Manze draws spirited playing from his ensemble, it's Egarr's intimately dramatic approach that really makes these discs special — More…
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Building a Library, October 2018, Also recommended
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Special offer. Handel: Organ Concertos, Op. 7 Nos. 1-6, HWV306-311
Richard Egarr (harpsichord, organs & direction)
Academy of Ancient Music
Anyone familiar with Richard Egarr's perky, exuberantly-ornamented take on Handel's Op. 4 concertos will know what to expect from this sequel. …the Academy of Ancient Music are intimate conversationalists,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2009, 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. Tavener: Eternity's Sunrise
Andrew Manze (violin), Patricia Rozario & Julia Gooding (sopranos), George Mosley (baritone)
The Academy of Ancient Music, Paul Goodwin
profoundly moving … if you have no Tavener in your collection, this could be the one. — More…
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Special offer. Christopher Gibbons: Motets, anthems, fantasias & voluntaries
Philippa Hyde (soprano), Jacqueline Connell (mezzo-soprano), Charmian Bedford (soprano), Alastair Ross (organ) & Richard Egarr (organ, conductor)
Choir of the AAM & Academy of Ancient Music
We owe Egarr our thanks for this sampler – a selection of gently expressive choral anthems, organ works and instrumental fantasias that establish him as a far-from-negligible precursor of Blow... — More…
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