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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…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd October 2021
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Building A Library, November 2021, Also Recommended
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Handel: Israel in Egypt, HWV54
RecommendedNancy Argenta, Emily Van Evera, Timothy Wilson, Anthony Rolfe, David Thomas, Jeremy White
Taverner Choir & Players, Andrew Parrott
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Building a Library, June 2019, Recommended Recording
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Handel: Messiah RecommendedRemastered 2014
Judith Nelson, Emma Kirkby, Carolyn Watkinson, Paul Elliott & David Thomas
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford & The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Building A Library, April 2022, Also Recommended
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I can’t think of anything that would improve this package: performances are stylish and beautifully polished. The recording is a beauty — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2007, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Building a Library, October 2017, First Choice
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Handel: Concerti grossi Op. 3 Nos. 1-6, HWV312-317 RecommendedThe English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
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Building a Library, October 2017, Also Recommended
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Birth of the Symphony RecommendedHandel to Haydn
Richard Egarr (director & harpsichord)
Academy of Ancient Music
the contents prove enjoyable both in sequence and as historical display case...Egarr's interpretation, less demonstrative than, say, Ton Koopman's or Trevor Pinnock's, is attentive to dynamic... — More…
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Building A Library, February 2022, Also Recommended
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Handel: Concerti grossi Op. 6 Nos. 1-12 HWV319-330
RecommendedAcademy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze
Richard Egarr's charisma is infectious and the recorded sound sensational. — More…
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Building a Library, March 2014, First Choice
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Handel: Messiah RecommendedCarolyn Sampson, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Mark Padmore, Christopher Purves
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
Three of the four outstanding soloists - fine Handelians all - cut their teeth in the choir, and Catherine Wyn-Rogers has been a regular soloist. Crucially they don't stand apart, regally dispensing... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th August 2008
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Building a Library, April 2009, First Choice
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Handel: Tamerlano
RecommendedXavier Sabata (Tamerlano), Max Emanuel Cencic (Andronico), John Mark Ainsley (Bajazet), Karina Gauvin (Asteria), Ruxandra Donose (Irene), Pavel Kudinov (Leone)
Il Pomo d’Oro, Riccardo Minasi
The cast is of exceptional and even strength...[Sabata and Cencic] deliver brilliant tone and lively fioritura, while the scenes between Sabata and Ainsley crackle with fury...An all-round outstanding... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2014, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended Recording
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Handel: Jephtha RecommendedJames Gilchrist (Jephtha), Susan Bickley (Storge), Sophie Bevan (Iphis), Robin Blaze (Hamor), Matthew Brook (Zebul) & Grace Davidson (Angel)
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
Christophers's taut, vibrant, and beautifully sprung account is bright and dazzling, yet so often the score ought to inhabit the tortured light and shade of Caravaggio...the choruses are finely... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Building a Library, January 2018, First Choice
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