SACD, Vivaldi (composer)
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Unlike some of her continental rivals Podger's light bowing and well-judged tempos effortlessly discover the tenderly poetic content of Vivaldi's music, and here that dimension is abundant...Podger's... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th June 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2012, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Baroque Instrumental
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Grandissima Gravita
RecommendedMusic by Pisenel, Tartini, Veracini & Vivaldi
Rachel Podger (violin)
Brecon Baroque
Her playing is intoxicated and intoxicating in equal measure, buoyed up by the wonderful improvisatory camaraderie of a continuo battery…Podger, inevitably, is the star, but ultimately the disc’s... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Special offer. Vivaldi & Piazzolla: The Four Seasons
Arabella Steinbacher (violin), Munich Chamber Orchestra
For those who despair at the number of recent ‘HIP’ versions…in which Vivaldi’s onomatopoeic effects have been allowed to run riot, Steinbacher’s alluring tone, espressivo phrasing, subtle vibrato... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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If an hour and a quarter of music based on 16 bars appears daunting, take courage from the immense stylistic variety over 200 years and the splendidly colourful range of instruments playing... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, Chamber Choice
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Vivaldi, Le Quattro Stagioni & Concerti d'Ll Cimento Dell'armonia E Dell'invenzione
Alfia Bakieva, Les Musiciennes Du Concert Des Nations, Jordi Savall
Album-wide, the musicians themselves serve up an attractively lightly buoyant, silvery-sounding, refined sound whose continuo combination of lute, chitaronne and harpsichord has at times an... — More…
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a live recording of an excellent programme with the theme of musical ‘tone painting'...I enjoyed the discs very much. — 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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Stabat Mater
Daniel Taylor (counter-tenor and Director), Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Theatre of Early Music
Emma Kirkby at her most serene is matched by Taylor as if they were two faces of a single musical entity. With first-rate surround-sound recording and a warm ambience, this is a disc not to... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2009, Editor's Choice
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Venezia Millenaria (Venice 700-1797)
2 x SACD and book
Le Concert des Nations - Hespèrion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Panagiotis, Neochoritis, Jordi Savall
Venezia Millenaria is as kaleidoscopic as the city itself, Venice’s trademark cosmopolitanism reflected in Savall’s augmenting of his home team(s) with Ensemble Panagiotis Neochoritis, and an... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2018, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 3rd March 2018, Recording of the Week
2 SACDs + Book
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CANTATA - yet can I hear...
Handel, Vivaldi, and Bach
Bejun Mehta (countertenor)
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Mehta’s voice remains light and graceful, and his general ability to move around the small notes is only occasionally compromised by untidiness. The period-instrument orchestra’s flautist, Christoph... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2018
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Diapason d’Or, May 2018, Nouveauté
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