BBC Music Magazine Awards, Baroque (era)
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Handel: Theodora
RecommendedLisette Oropesa (Theodora), Joyce DiDonato (Irene), Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian (Didymus), Michael Spyres (Septimius), John Chest (Valens), Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
This is now the benchmark Theodora; it is optimally cast, dramatically intense and luminously beautiful. Its world-class principals use their fine vocal qualities to deepen their characters.... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th October 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2022, Recording of the Month
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Choral
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year (Oropesa & DiDonato)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Male Singer of the Year (Spyres)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Bach - Motets RecommendedYukari Nonoshita & Aki Matsui (soprano), Damien Guillon (counter-tenor), Satoshi Mizukoshi (tenor) & Dominik Wörner (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
The performance is, as you'd now expect from [Suzuki's] Collegium, excellent. Voices range from delicate soloists to a splendidly light and transparent 18-strong chorus. Instrumental support... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Choral Award Winner
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2010, Winner - Musique Chorale
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Building A Library, May 2021, Recommended Recording
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BACH: Heinrich, Johann Christoph, Johann Michael, Johann Sebastian RecommendedKantaten
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
One of the key differences between Vox Luminis and many other such ensembles…is how homogeneity is challenged as the default priority…The strong identities within the ensemble allow for new... — More…
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Record Review, 15th June 2019, Record of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th June 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Choral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Nominee - Baroque Vocal
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There’s no doubting that [Shibe] is an artist blessed with grace to spare, and a roar that is fearsome – witness the opening section of Julia Wolfe’s LAD which screams into anguished life before... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Winner - Concept Album
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Charlston's mezzo is as dark and full-bodied as a good claret, and she offers highly expressive readings of the texts, plumbing their depths with cut-glass diction and a glorious range of colours... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Concept Album of the Year
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The creative and attentively researched programme knits together musical and textual threads into a fast-moving sequence...Orliński carries off the programme with great élan: his bell-like voice... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, Choral & Song Choice
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2023
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Winner - Vocal
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Handel: Italian cantatas
RecommendedSabine Devieilhe (soprano), Léa Desandre (mezzo)
Le Concert d'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord, organ and conductor)
This production is a delight throughout…Haïm retains control by preparing both the scores and the sopranos’ ornaments, her vision giving this carefully wrought performance a fiery intensity,... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2018, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, Choral & Song Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Vocal
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Handel: Samson RecommendedJoshua Ellicott (tenor), Sophie Bevan(soprano), Fflur Wyn (soprano), Mary Bevan (soprano), Jess Dandy (contralto), Hugo Hymas (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), Vitali Rozynko (bass-baritone)
Dunedin Consort, John Butt
Butt has created the best Samson ever...These choral forces make for a vibrancy unique among Samson recordings…Butt’s deep grasp of both Handel’s rhetoric and of large-scale structure turns... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Choral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Choral
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This is perfect ground for Lindsey and Cohen, both extremely accomplished and transformative performers of Baroque music...Her extraordinary vocal evocations are complemented throughout by the... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2021, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, Opera 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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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Vocal
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Bach: Ich habe genug. Cantatas BWV 32, 82 & 106 Joanne Lunn, Katie Bray, Hugo Hymas, Robert Davies, Matthew Brook, The Dunedin Consort, John Butt
As with all their releases, John Butt and the Dunedins approach the scores from a scholarly angle (Butt’s approachable notes guide us through various musical and liturgical considerations) but... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, Choral & Song Choice
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2021
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Winner - Choral
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