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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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Stradella: Un angelo del Paradiso - The Orrigoni Songbook
Silvia Frigato (soloist), Ensemble Mare Nostrum, Andrea De Carlo
Frigato is devastatingly good. Frankly, if Andrea De Carlo’s Stradella project isn’t already on your radar, this selection makes a very good place to start. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2024, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Voice & Ensemble
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Infinite Refrain: Music of Love’s Refuge
RecommendedRandall Scotting (counter-tenor), Jorge Navarro Colorado (tenor), Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings
Scotting borrows your heart in Monteverdi’s ‘Con che soavità’ when a lover asks how can one speak and kiss at the same time, while conductor Laurence Cummings and the Academy of Ancient Music... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Stradella: Mottetti
Sonia Tedla (vocalist), Monica PiccininI (vocalist), Andrés Montilla (vocalist), Luca Cervoni (vocalist), Gabriele Lombardi (vocalist), Francesca Cassinari (vocalist), Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
We’re treated to five motets and two instrumental works revealing that Stradella’s remarkably varied idiom is refined, expressive and felicitous...In sum, this revelatory album is a wonderful... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Paul-Antoine Benos-Djian has a beautiful countertenor voice, full and even at both ends of his range, which he uses to superbly expressive effect...Alicia Amo as Herodias the Daughter (Salome)... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Un jardin à l'italienne (In an Italian Garden)
Airs, cantatas & madrigals (Le Jardin des Voix #2)
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
The six young singers perform a hugely carried and imaginatively-programmed set of Italian madrigals…Les Arts Florissants under William Christie are on fine form, with all their unmistakable... —
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Siface: L’amor castrato
Arias by Stradella, Pasquini, Cavalli, Scarlatti et al.
Filippo Mineccia (countertenor)
Nereydas, Javier Ulises Illán
This is repertory...that for the most part suits his dark, handsome-sounding alto uncommonly well. Long, slowly unfolding lines are sustained with consummate ease and his coloratura has admirable... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2018, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Stradella: String Sinfonias, Nos. 1‐9
Francesco Cera (harpsichord, organ & conductor)
Ensemble Arte Musica, Francesco Cera
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Stradella: Il Trespolo tutore
Riccardo Novaro (Trespolo), Roberta Mameli (Artemisia), Silvia Frigato (Ciro), Luca Cervoni (Simona), Rafał Tomkiewicz (Nino), Paola Valentina Molinari (Despina), Ensemble Mare Nostrum, Andrea De Carlo
The splendid bass Riccardo Novaro brings rich tone, perfect timing and a real sense of character to the title role, a truly commanding performance...De Carlo’s pacing is exemplary, though he... —
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Opera, February 2021, Disc of the Month
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