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Handel: Alceste
RecommendedLucy Crowe (soprano), Benjamin Hulett (tenor) & Andrew Foster-Williams (bass-baritone)
Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn
Curnyn's delicious recording of the surviving score is amplified with a sinfonia from Admeto and a passacaglia from Radamisto. These fizzily, sexily swung orchestral additions emphasise the... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th May 2012
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2012, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2012, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Opera Award Winner
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In War & Peace
RecommendedHarmony Through Music
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo)
Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
Though the top of her voice is wiry under pressure, her coloratura is tightly sprung, her diction is flawless, and her phrasing of the often underrated poetry is sympathetic and sophisticated…Il... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Recital
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Opera, January 2017, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Mr Charles the Hungarian. Handel's Rival in Dublin
RecommendedIrish Baroque Orchestra, Peter Whelan
Here is an unusual and delightful programme from bassoonist and director Peter Whelan...Irish Baroque Orchestra with its several concertante players imbue the music with lucidity and a spirited... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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New. The Mono Era on HMV & Columbia Graphophone - 1926-1959
Sir Thomas Beecham, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française
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D’Oustrac is dazzling across these various personae, to which she brings not only luscious vocalism but also a blistering intensity. No less impressive is the Ensemble Amarillis…for zest and... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2020, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. A Christmas Concert With Robert Shaw
Atlanta Symphony Chorus, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Louise Seidel, Robert Shaw
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The Founding Years
Sir Thomas Beecham conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Leeds Festival Chorus, Sir Thomas Beecham
The Leeds Festival performance of Sibelius's Tempest music - its 1934 UK premiere - is a real find, never previously issued. The later studio performances of Mozart's Haffner Symphony and Chabrier's... — More…
