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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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Songs of Orpheus
RecommendedMonteverdi, Caccini, Merula, Brunelli, Castello, Cima, Landi
Karim Sulayman (tenor)
Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell
Sulayman’s approach tends more towards the lyrical than the rhetorical – his lucid, velvety tenor and pop-star charisma best suited to melodious arias rather than the text-driven stile recitativo…Under... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2018), Winner - Classical Solo Vocal Album
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The Artistry of Emma Kirkby
Emma Kirkby (soprano) with Jakob Lindberg (lute), Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord), Anthony Rooley (lute), Agnès Mellon (soprano), John Abberger (oboe), Thomas Georgi (viola d’amore), Lucas Harris (lute) & Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann (cello)
London Baroque, Royal Academy of Music Baroque...
…it's often in the modest-looking pieces that she's at her most compelling. Robert Johnson's Full Fathom Five is 109 seconds of breathtaking stillness and beauty, Böddecker's Natus est Jesu... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2009, Re-issue of the Month
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Diapason d'Or, September 2021, Nouveauté
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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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It seems to me that they have taken time to properly hit their stride, but here they rediscover the heights scaled with Claudio Cavina at the helm. These are near-flawless readings, effortlessly... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2020, Editor's Choice
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The singers of Les Cris de Paris are here combined in different arrangements throughout the album, to produce a richly resonant sound with a strong bass and bright, clear upper textures. — More…
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Speech-like song tumbles out of tenor Alessandro Giangrande like coins from a sack; it’s glorious. But my favourite voice on the album is that of Zachary Wilder. — More…
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Amore Siciliano
Cappella Mediterranea (early music ensemble), Leonardo García Alarcón, Matteo Bellotto, Valerio Contaldo, Léo Fernique, Mariana Flores, Ana Vieira Leite
There’s a fabulously frantic air to the sequence of the opening movements, and in general this is the approach to the playing throughout: totally gung-ho, extreme and unexpected. — More…
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CD
HK$87.08
