Gramophone Awards
2019
Finalist - Opera

Presto Recording of the Week
7th September 2018

Recording of the Month
Gramophone Magazine
Awards Issue 2018

Albina Shagimuratova (Semiramide), Daniela Barcellona (Arsace), Mirco Palazzi (Assur), Barry Banks (Idreno), Gianluca Buratto (Oroe), Susana Gaspar (Azema), David Butt Philip (Mitrane), James Platt (L’ombra di Nino)

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Opera Rara Chorus, Sir Mark Elder

"The lavishly gifted Russian coloratura Albina Shagimuratova, she of the shining high E, and Daniela Barcellona, our finest contemporary Arsace, are both superb…This is an intensely theatrical performance, yet there is no rush in the larger shaping of the piece…And what a difference the old instruments make." - Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2018