CD, Caldara (composer)
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The Italian Job
RecommendedBaroque Instrumental Music from the Italian States
Gail Hennessy, Rachel Chaplin (oboes) & Peter Whelan (bassoon)
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
The highlight of the disc for me is Chandler’s performance of a seldom-played E major Violin Concerto by Tartini: he explores fully the rich poetic content of its slow movement while projecting... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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The performances are excellent, even given the variety of the program. They make for an hour and 15 minutes of immersion into the Venetian spirit. The vocalists are spot on pitch, and the instruments... —
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Diapason d’Or, November 2019, Nouveauté
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Nei Giardini d'Amore: Baroque Arias For Two Alti
RecommendedCarlo Vistoli, Hugh Cutting (countertenors), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
Carlo Vistoli brings both pathos and rage to Medea's vehement outpourings...Equally compelling is Hugh Cutting's interpretation of Vivaldi's Cessate, omai cessate. His youthful countertenor... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2025, Vocal Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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An often feisty recital of operatically-influenced 17th and 18th century sacred music intercut with instrumental items by Dantone’s firebrand ensemble. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Winner - Recital
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Jaroussky’s eternally boyish countertenor might not seem the most obvious vehicle for the Old Testament God’s furious lambasting of Moses in the virtuoso aria from Fortunato Chelleri’s Dio sul... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2020
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a bold and beautifully researched showcase for a repertoire badly in need of a champion...[Rial's] vocal agility and purity are as striking as ever here...Sabadus’s smoky, rounded countertenor... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2017, Editor's Choice
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Chaconnes by Purcell and Brescianello frame a programme where the strings of La Serenissima are responsive to nuance and congruent in sound. —
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Aspromonte’s voluptuous, velvety soprano and vivid diction capture the emotional and rhetorical tensions of works that veer from grief to joy; my one caveat is that her colour palette and dynamic... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2022, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Antonio Caldara: Trio Sonatas
from Op. 1 & Op. 2
Amandine Beyer (violin), Leila Schayegh (violin), Jonathan Pesek (cello), Jörg-Andreas Bötticher (harpsichord & organ), Matthias Spaeter (liuto attiorbato)
these trio sonatas are full of colour and sonority, even though the scoring is for just two violins and continuo. Corelli is clearly the model...Right at the end comes the gem: a Chiacona where... —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2015, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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