Concertos, Quadruple Concertos
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Vivaldi: L'estro armonico - 12 concerti, Op. 3
RecommendedRachel Podger (violin & director)
Brecon Baroque
There's a sense of Podger and her players examining and analysing every note in their preparation, deciding on its role, and placing it carefully back into context, without ever disturbing the... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th March 2015
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2015, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Baroque Instrumental
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Concerto Winner
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Building a Library, March 2020, Recommended Recording
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What's Next Vivaldi? RecommendedPatricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
No one cooks up a Vivaldian storm like Patricia Kopatchinskaja. The opening movement of La tempesta di mare is a churning cauldron of tempestuous fury that would surely have terrified Poseidon... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Winner - Concerto
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Schumann: Konzertstück for four horns RecommendedMarkus Maskuniitty (horn), Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
The playing of Maskuniitty and his three colleagues is simply superb, with exemplary balance between them and the thrilling arpeggio swoops in the last movement. — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2019
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2019, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Concerto
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Concerto
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Mozart: Wind Concertos Timothy Jones (horn), Olivier Stankiewicz (oboe), Andrew Marriner (clarinet), London Symphony Orchestra, Jaime Martín
You would expect the principal woodwind players of a team in the London Symphony Orchestra’s league to perform at stellar technical level. Even more striking, and highly appealing besides, is... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, Concerto Choice
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Delightful … played with vivacity and finesse — More…
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Vivaldi: L'estro armonico - 12 concerti, Op. 3 RecommendedAcademy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner
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Building a Library, December 1999, Modern Instruments Choice
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Mozart’s work itself is naturally the finest of all, notwithstanding doubts as to its authorship. It gets a performance as fine as any you’re likely to hear…The Munich Chamber Orchestra provide... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2018
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Record Review, 19th May 2018, Recording of the Week
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Telemann: Sinfonia TWV 50:1 in G major 'Grillen-Symphonie', etc.
Anthony Halstead, Christian Rutherford, Raul Diaz (horns), Simon Standage (violin)
Collegium Musicum 90
This release shows Telemann at his most irrepressibly good-humoured and imaginative.
There's a concerto for three rattling horns and a solo violin (a splendid sound, with the horns recorded... — More…CD
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Vivaldi: Vespri solenni per la festa dell’Assunzione di Maria Vergine
RecommendedGemma Bertagnolli (soprano), Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Anna Simboli (soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Gianluca Ferrarini (tenor), Matteo Bellotto (baritone), Antonio De Secondi (violin)
Concerto Italiano ensemble vocale e strumentale, Rinaldo Alessandrini
This isn't the 'Vivaldi Vespers', or even a reconstruction of a specific event, but a kind of 'sacred concert' in Vespers form, of the sort that Venetian churches in Vivaldi's time would mount... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2004, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Schumann - Complete Symphonies
RecommendedRoger Montgomery, Susan Dent, Gavin Edwards, Robert Maskell (horns)
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
The first point to note is how much more comprehensive this is than previous cycles, even the outstanding RCA set of period performances from Roy Goodman and the Hanover Band.
Gardiner offers... — More…Awards:
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Building a Library, November 2006, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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