Download, Caccini, G (composer)
-
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... —
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, Choral & Song Choice
-
Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2023
-
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Winner - Vocal
-
-
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... —
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, Opera Choice
-
Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, Editor's Choice
-
Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted – Early Music
-
Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Opera Recording (up to and including 17th/18th century)
-
-
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... —
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, Choral & Song Choice
-
Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2023
-
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Winner - Vocal
-
-
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... —
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 12th May 2023
-
Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
-
-
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'). —
-
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... —
Awards:
-
Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021
-
Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021, Baroque vocal
-
Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2021
-
-
Songplay
RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (mezzo), Steve Barnett (percussion), Jimmy Madison (drums), Craig Terry (piano/harpsichord), Chuck Israels (double bass), Charlie Porter (trumpet/flugelhorn), Lautaro Greco (bandonéon)
The real twist here is that DiDonato retains the ‘formality’ of her operatic sound and delivery while attempting to apply a jazzer’s instincts. So her singerly embellishments rub shoulders with... —
Awards:
-
Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Female Singer of the Year
-
Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Winner - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
-
Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019)
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Music For A While - Baroque Melodies
Anne Sofie Von Otter (Soprano), Jakob Lindberg (guitar & lute), Anders Ericson (theorbo) & Jory Vinikour (harpsichord & organ)
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, May 2005, Editor's Choice
-
-
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... —
Awards:
-
Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2018), Winner - Classical Solo Vocal Album
-
-
New. Caccini & Kapsperger: Nuove Musiche
Monodies & Toccatas in the New Style
Xavier Díaz-Latorre, Furio Zanasi (baritone), Laberintos Ingeniosos
