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The creative and attentively researched programme knits together musical and textual threads into a fast-moving sequence...Orliński carries off the programme with great élan: his bell-like voice... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, Choral & Song Choice
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2023
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Winner - Vocal
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Special offer. Stravaganza d'Amore!
The Birth of Opera at the Medici Court
Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Harmonia Mundi's production has all the sumptuousness of the original Medici spectacle...The performances are highly polished, chorus and ensemble, producing a glossy and liberally embellished... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted – Early Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Opera Recording (up to and including 17th/18th century)
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Shibe brings a lively charisma and a vibrant array of musical colour to the album, conjuring everything from 17th-century lute to Arabic oud across this wide-reaching programme. Sulayman’s performance... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th May 2023
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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The creative and attentively researched programme knits together musical and textual threads into a fast-moving sequence...Orliński carries off the programme with great élan: his bell-like voice... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, Choral & Song Choice
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2023
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Winner - 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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RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (mezzo), Steve Barnett (percussion), Jimmy Madison (drums), Craig Terry (piano/harpsichord), Chuck Israels (double bass), Charlie Porter (trumpet/flugelhorn), Lautaro Greco (bandonéon)
The real twist here is that DiDonato retains the ‘formality’ of her operatic sound and delivery while attempting to apply a jazzer’s instincts. So her singerly embellishments rub shoulders with... — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Female Singer of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Winner - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019)
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Music For A While - Baroque Melodies
Anne Sofie Von Otter (Soprano), Jakob Lindberg (guitar & lute), Anders Ericson (theorbo) & Jory Vinikour (harpsichord & organ)
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2005, Editor's Choice
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Songs for Courtiers and Cavaliers
Helen Watts (contralto), Thurston Dart (harpsichord)
Philomusica of London
An intriguing record of the roots of historically-informed performance, Helen Watts and Desmond Dupré give passionate but (by today’s standards) heavy-handed accounts. — More…
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Diapason d’Or, November 2019, Collectionneur
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Special offer. Francesca Aspromonte: Prologue
Music by Monteverdi, Caccini, Cavalli, Stradella & Scarlatti
Francesca Aspromonte (soprano)
Il pomo d’oro, Enrico Onofri
Aspromonte’s diamantine timbre, rich, expressive palette and outstanding care for words make her an ideal mistress of ceremonies. — More…
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