CD, Vivaldi (composer)
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The Sound of the Trumpet
RecommendedPeter Hurford (organ), Alan Stringer (trumpet), Gwynne Howell (bass), John Wilbraham (trumpet), Philip Jones (trumpet), Leslie Pearson (organ)
The Michael Laird Brass Ensemble, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, London Festival Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner,...
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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The Italian Job RecommendedBaroque Instrumental Music from the Italian States
Gail Hennessy, Rachel Chaplin (oboes) & Peter Whelan (bassoon)
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
The highlight of the disc for me is Chandler’s performance of a seldom-played E major Violin Concerto by Tartini: he explores fully the rich poetic content of its slow movement while projecting... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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An often feisty recital of operatically-influenced 17th and 18th century sacred music intercut with instrumental items by Dantone’s firebrand ensemble. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Winner - Recital
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Drawing on a hatful of tricks, Benedetti makes her violin sing and dance, rage and lament. Flirtatious exchanges between soloist and ensemble enhance the tonal and textural contrasts of the... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th July 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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The performances… are typically neatly-pointed and vivacious. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2009, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Stutzmann’s deep burgundy contralto, like a freakishly rich, wide-ranging countertenor, is the perfect fit for this repertoire...[Her] characterisation and vocal colouring are always true and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Anne-Sophie Mutter & Mutter’s Virtuosi
RecommendedElias David Moncado (violin), Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Mohamed Hiber (violin), Lionel Martin (cello), Samuel Nebyu (violin), Matthew Lipman (viola), Margarita Balanas (cello), Dominik Wagner (double bass), Hwayoon Lee (viola)
Mutter's Virtuosi
Virtuosity is certainly the order of the day in Vivaldi’s F major Triple Concerto, which sets off at a furious lick, with Mutter and two of her protégés attacking the music with unanimity and... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Xavier de Maistre: Notte Veneziana
Xavier de Maistre (harp)
l’arte del mondo, Werner Ehrhardt (Artistic Director)
This is a superb display of harp-playing at its best. At one extreme, the so-called 'Albinoni Adagio'...displays astonishingly warm harp tone, fingers barely caressing strings - indulgently... — More…
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Heroines of Love and Loss vocal chamber music from the 17th century
Ruby Hughes (soprano), Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann (cello) & Jonas Nordberg (lute / theorbo / archlute)
Ruby Hughes’s soprano has an effortless beauty: pliant, subtly expressive, never forced. She captures the chaste fervour of the sacred works…Brinkmann and Nordberg proffer aptly spontaneous... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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