CD, Strozzi (composer)
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Charlston's mezzo is as dark and full-bodied as a good claret, and she offers highly expressive readings of the texts, plumbing their depths with cut-glass diction and a glorious range of colours... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Concept Album of the Year
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New. Barbara Strozzi: A portrait in Five Acts
Duets for Two Sopranos
Dorothee Mields (soprano), Hana Blažiková (soprano), Hathor Consort, Romina Lischka
I could listen to Dorothee Mields and Hana Blažíková's dovetailed duetting all day long. —
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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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The Red Priest’s cello concertos flaunt Kobekina’s electrifying virtuosity and the high-octane playing of the Basel Chamber Orchestra under violinist Julia Schröder’s spirited direction. Yet... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Young Talent of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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The exquisitely pure-toned performance α of Hildegard von Bingen's O viridissima, Virga at the outset makes clear that this will be a special recital...Christopher Lowrey elicits expressively... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2025, Christmas Choice
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the soprano's voice has steely harshness occasionally, but lucid characterisation of quicksilver shifting sentiments captures the spirited fickleness, wit and emotional gamut of Strozzi's creations. —
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Wonder Women
Luciana Mancini (mezzo-soprano), Céline Scheen (soprano), Vincenzo Capezzuto (contralto), Benedetta Mazzucato (mezzo-soprano), L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar
The singers bring passion and intensity to each vocal number...Pluhar’s liberally-ornamented arrangements exploit the rhythmic energ y of late-Renaissance and early-Baroque music, and L’Arpeggiata... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2024, Editor's Choice
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Heroines of Love and Loss
vocal chamber music from the 17th century
Ruby Hughes (soprano), Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann (cello) & Jonas Nordberg (lute / theorbo / archlute)
Ruby Hughes’s soprano has an effortless beauty: pliant, subtly expressive, never forced. She captures the chaste fervour of the sacred works…Brinkmann and Nordberg proffer aptly spontaneous... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Barbara Strozzi: Voices of Longing - Love Songs From 17th Century Venice
Emily Owen (soprano), Jenni Harper (soprano), Satoko Doi-Luck, Toby Carr, Ceruleo
the voices are pliant and ingratiating, and both singers cope gracefully with the composer’s florid and wide-ranging vocal lines. The three instrumentalists offer poised and thoughtful ensembles... —
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These formidable chamber musicians range effortlessly through the centuries and around the globe, recognising no stylistic boundaries. Their mesmerising soundworld is supported by a glowing,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2022, Editor's Choice
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