Monteverdi - Si dolce è'l tormento (from Libro Nono di Magrigali e Canzonette)
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Monteverdi - Teatro d'Amore
RecommendedNuria Rial (soprano), Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Cyril Auvity (tenor), Jan van Elsacker (tenor) & Joaõ Fernandes (bass)
L’Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar
The gorgeous singing of the soloists and stylish instrumental performances, though dazzling and gimlet-eyed, are also elegant and respectful without being obsequiously slavish to convention. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th January 2009
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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 instrumental contributions throughout are a real highlight…and Mields’s artless delivery makes for an attractive and infinitely listenable recital, even if musical passions never quite glow... — More…
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On the Trail of Marco Polo
Lautten Compagney, Wu Wei (harmonica), Eva Mattes (speaker), Eva Mattes (vocal)
Wolfgang Katschner
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Amor tiranno
Broken-hearted Lovers in Seventeenth-Century Venice
Carlo Vistoli (countertenor), Sezione Aurea, Filippo Pantieri
Vistoli brings bittersweet theatricality to Apollo’s sorrow upon Dafne metamorphosing into a laurel (Cavalli’s Gli amori d’Apollo e di Dafne) and Diomede’s misogynistic rant (Sacrati’s La finta... — More…
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She soars the heights and plumbs the depths with fitting ardour...it is hard not to be swept away by such intensity felt and highly dramatic readings...[Pitzl] and his crack instrumental ensemble... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Recital
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, Choral & Song Choice
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A Trace of Grace
Steve Swallow (double bass), Guillemette Laurens (vocals), Michel Godard (serpent), Gavino Murgia (saxophone), Fanny Paccoud (violin), Bruno Helstroffer (theorbo), Michel Godard (double bass)
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Clorinda e Tancredi
Love scenes by Claudio Monteverdi
Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli (soprano), Luca Dordolo (tenor), Riccardo Pisani (tenor), Davide Benetti (bass) & Marco Mencoboni (harpsichord, direction)
Cantar Lontano
[Dordolo’s] firm clear diction and sensitive rhetorical control, which at times moves into a kind of speech-song, extracts every last ounce of carefully calculated drama from Monteverdi’s narrow... — More…
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The programme is expressly devised so that Kermes can shed new light on 19th-century vocal writing, applying the stylistic approaches she has developed in music of earlier eras: her trademark... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Recital
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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