CD, Caccini, G (composer)
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Harmonia Mundi's production has all the sumptuousness of the original Medici spectacle...The performances are highly polished, chorus and ensemble, producing a glossy and liberally embellished... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted – Early Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Opera Recording (up to and including 17th/18th century)
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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... —
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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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Shibe brings a lively charisma and a vibrant array of musical colour to the album, conjuring everything from 17th-century lute to Arabic oud across this wide-reaching programme. Sulayman’s performance... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th May 2023
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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His is a gorgeous voice, imparting heft and seriousness in the most solemn moments (Tu se' morta') and zest in the outgoing ones ('Vi ricorda, O boschi ombrosi'). —
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The clutch of Spanish songs is enthralling...Despite the machine having so many intricate moving parts, there is enjoyable coherence to the broader ebb and flow of this imaginative programme —
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Many vocal skills we now admire in opera were born in the early 17th century. These performances centre upon the techniques of the early solo singer-composers, wonderfully resurrected here by... —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021, Baroque vocal
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2021
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Music For A While - Baroque Melodies
Anne Sofie Von Otter (Soprano), Jakob Lindberg (guitar & lute), Anders Ericson (theorbo) & Jory Vinikour (harpsichord & organ)
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2005, Editor's Choice
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Andrea Bocelli - Sacred Arias
Andrea Bocelli
Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung
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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... —
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2018), Winner - Classical Solo Vocal Album
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New. Caccini & Kapsperger: Nuove Musiche
Monodies & Toccatas in the New Style
Xavier Díaz-Latorre, Furio Zanasi (baritone), Laberintos Ingeniosos
