Hi Res Download, Hasse, J A (composer)
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His technical strengths emerge clearly in the way in which he negotiates the switchback turns of Vivaldi’s ‘Cada pur sul capo’ (from Artabano), the cascading melodies of Porpora’s ‘Nocchier,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Voice & Ensemble
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Special offer. A Night in London
Ophelie Gaillard (cello), Pulcinella Orchestra, Sandrine Piau (soprano), Gabriel Pidoux, Lucile Richardot (mezzo-soprano)
Among the disc’s many highlights are the virtuoso cello concertos by Cirri and Porpora which showcase Gaillard’s athletic technique as well as her extraordinary ability to make the cello sing. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrumental
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The Polish countertenor gives a lithe and affecting performance on this debut album, a collection of largely unrecorded sacred baroque arias. Il Pomo d’Oro flutter and fizz. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Solo Vocal Recital (Opera)
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It's music by Luca Antonio Predieri (a nearcontemporary of Handel’s) that really hits the mark. Predieri’s gentle lyricism and clean lines suit Orliński’s soft-grained voice well. He’s no convincing... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th December 2019
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International Opera Awards, 2020, Winner - Solo Recital Recording
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Male Singer of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Recital
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Hasse: Serpentes ignei in deserto
RecommendedPhilippe Jaroussky (Moses), Julia Lezhneva (The Angel), Bruno de Sá (Josue), Carlo Vistoli (Eleazar), Jakub Józef Orliński (Nathanael), David Hansen (Eliab)
Les Accents, Thibault Noally
It is in fact Julia Lezhneva, ‘the Angel’, who dazzles most brightly. In her second aria, she bends prestissimo passages to swoop and jump, executing more notes per second at more extreme intervals... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd November 2024
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2025, Opera & Stage Choice
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Hasse: Piramo e Tisbe
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Anett Fritsch (Piramo), Roberta Mameli (Tisbe), Jeremy Ovenden (Il Padre)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck
The piece has been recorded before by La Stagione Frankfurt, but this new version is better, with livelier tempi and superb singing from two bright-voiced sopranos, Anett Fritsch and Roberta... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2025, Opera & Stage Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Opera
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Mühlemann makes everything sound easy. But it’s not just virtuosity, as the beauty of her voice also stops you in your tracks. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2017
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Record Review, 16th September 2017, Recording of the Week
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Newcomer (singer)
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Venezia Millenaria (Venice 700-1797)
2 x SACD and book
Le Concert des Nations - Hespèrion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Panagiotis, Neochoritis, Jordi Savall
Venezia Millenaria is as kaleidoscopic as the city itself, Venice’s trademark cosmopolitanism reflected in Savall’s augmenting of his home team(s) with Ensemble Panagiotis Neochoritis, and an... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2018, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 3rd March 2018, Recording of the Week
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He tears up and down the runs, ornamenting at will, and offers great firework cadenzas that draw us into the situation and emotion. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2023
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - World Premiere Recording of the Year
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Che puro ciel
The Rise of Classical Opera
Bejun Mehta (counter-tenor)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs
Jacobs and Bejun Mehta unleash the primal energies buried in magnificent yet largely forgotten operas...Jacobs's abrupt tempo twists, the instrumentalists' boldness and the chorus's power make... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Recital
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