Download, Fux (composer)
-
Though there are versions that have a weightier choral sound, the advantage of this one is that the Requiem’s words (which so fuelled the composer’s creative imagination) and all the details... — More…
Awards:
-
Record Review, 27th February 2021, Record of the Week
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 26th February 2021
-
Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Choral
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
CD
HK$130.31Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Be prepared for some dazzling displays…in Zelenka’s psalm setting ‘Laetatus sum’, Orlinski is partnered by the assured, pliant and blended singing of Fatma Said…[Nucci's] aria ‘Un giusto furore’... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, Editor's Choice
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd October 2021
-
Building A Library, November 2021, Also Recommended
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Winner - Baroque Vocal
CD
HK$130.31Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Rondeau’s interpretations of this music suggest that for the likes of Haydn, Clementi, Beethoven and Debussy, harpsichord sonorities were very much in their mind’s ear. In particular, Rondeau’s... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, May 2023, Editor's Choice
-
Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Instrumental
-
Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
CD
HK$121.32Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Vox Luminis’s consummate mastery of polyphonic textures, plangent sonorities and contoured phrasing is profoundly beautiful; the five soloists and five additional ‘ripieno’ singers declaim text... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 12th August 2016
-
Gramophone Magazine, November 2016, Editor's Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Fux: La Corona d'Arianna
Monica Piccinini (Venere), Carlotta Colombo (Arianna), Marianne Beate Kielland (Teti), Rafał Tomkiewicz (Bacco), Meili Li (Peleo)
Zefiro, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Alfredo Bernardini
La Corona d'Arianna is wonderful in this version by director Alfredo Bernardini, who drastically shortened the opera due to 2022 COVID measures...The stand-out principal is Carlotta Colombo.... — More…
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, Opera Choice
CD
HK$128.06Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Ensemble Diderot’s invigorating approach has considerable appeal...Among the musical highlights is a sonata by Austrian Johann Heinrich Schmelzer. Best known for his string writing, his music... — More…
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, July 2021, Chamber Choice
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Caldara: Morte e sepoltura di Christo
Maria Grazia Schiavo, Silvia Frigato (sopranos), Martina Belli (alto), Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani (tenor) & Ugo Guagliardo (bass)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Biondi
Biondi is a bold guide. Sensitive to Caldara's idioms, he treats counterpoint severely and arias fulsomely, letting us hear how Caldara generates contrasting moods. And Biondi himself plays... — More…
2 CDs
HK$244.90Downloads
Audio formats guide -
[Handels] Suite No 6 in D minor gets a frisky, rhythmically sharp reading and Bach’s French Suite No 2 is exquisitely done, the “Sarabande” poised and elegant. A lovely disc, and beautifully... — More…
CD
HK$116.83Downloads
Audio formats guide -
Staier avoids the potential didactic pitfall that the concept might have laid for him. But the surprise comes in the form of music by Staier himself, a suite of six pieces (or ‘meditations’)... — More…
CD
HK$130.31Downloads
Audio formats guide -
Bernardini conducts with impeccable dramatic pacing and perceptive shaping of details...as one expects from Zefiro, there is magnificent playing from assorted woodwinds. — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, Editor's Choice
2 CDs
HK$206.70Downloads
Audio formats guide -
