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Monteverdi: Combattimento
Rolando Villazón, Patrizia Ciofi & Topi Lehtipuu
Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm
The atmosphere is electric. Villazón is pouring out Monteverdi’s beautiful lines of remorseful agony with spell-binding force. It’s his first foray into early music, but he tosses off the tricky... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2007, Choral & Song Choice
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Record Review, December 2006, Critics Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2007, Editor's Choice
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Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea
Sonya Yoncheva (Poppea), Kate Lindsay (Nerone), Stéphanie d'Oustrac (Ottavia), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie, Jan Lauwers (director)
Cognitive dissonance reigns as gorgeous music engulfs a drama about moral implosion. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2019, Opera Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Vocal
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
Furio Zanasi (Ulisse), Lucile Richardot (Penelope), Krystian Adam (Telemaco), Hana Blažíková (Minerva / Fortuna), Gianluca Buratto (Tempo / Nettuno / Antinoo)
Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Faced with lots of recitative and practically no arias, singers and players abandon themselves to intense arioso, jazzy cross-rhythms between poetry and continuo, and take-no-prisoners dissonances.... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, Recording of the Month
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International Opera Awards, 2019, Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
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Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
RecommendedEmanuela Galli (La Musica/Eurydice), Mirko Guadagnini (Orfeo), Marina De Liso (Messaggiera), Cristina Calzolari (Proserpina), Matteo Bellotto (Plutone), Josè Lo Monaco (Speranza), Salvo Vitale (Caronte), Vincenzo Di Donato (Apollo), Francesca Cassinari (Ninfa), Giovanni Caccamo (Pastore I), Makoto...
Emanuela Galli (Euridice/La Musica) is splendid in voice and emotion and Mirko Guadagnini (Orfeo) is arresting in the low-lying lamenting sections of Act V but rather dry in the upper range. — More…
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Building a Library, November 2007, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2007, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
RecommendedAnizio Zorzi Giustiniani (Ulisse), Josè Maria Lo Monaco (Penelope), Roberta Mameli (Minerva), Makoto Sakurada (Telemaco, Eurimaco), Salvo Vitale (Nettuno), Giorgia Milanesi (Giunone) with Francesca Cassinari, Vincenzo Di Donato, Marco Bussi, Alessio Tossi, Roberto Balconi, Paolo Antognetti, Francesca...
this account by La Veneziana is one of the more lively versions on CD...Makoto Sakurada (who plays Telemaco and Eurimaco) has the finest voice; strong, responsive and agile...It is therefore... — More…
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Building a Library, June 2015, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2012, Editor's Choice
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Monteverdi: l'Orfeo
Cappella Mediterranea (early music ensemble), Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Leonardo García Alarcón
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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This new recording...surpasses all others. The singers not only reveal the depths of Gesualdo's emotional understanding, but also his formal, harmonic and textural control...La Compagnia del... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2014, Choral & Song Choice
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Monteverdi: L'Orfeo a tale in music
Johan Linderoth (Orfeo), Ensemble Lundabarock, Höör Barock, Ensemble Altapunta, Fredrik Malmberg
The singers’ intensity – and the bold, sometimes unusual distribution of instrumental parts – distinguish this Orfeo from earlier recordings. Linderoth probes Orfeo’s vulnerability from first... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2021, Opera Choice
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Monteverdi: l'Orfeo
Marc Mauillon (Orfeo), Luciana Mancini (Euridice), La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall
Marc Mauillon is a magnificent Orfeo. Everything is real: his early bliss, his distress at his loss, his plea, even his swagger out of Hades and his fatal impulse to turn back and look at Euridice,... — More…
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