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- ↑ BBC Music Magazine , September 2015: "Director Riccardo Minaso heats up [the] sense of rivalry – the variations get wilder, the yearning more palpable. All three countertenors are virtuosos, but Fagioli takes the laurels ... the band contributes enormously throughout, its brash exuberance alternating with continuo realisations as delicate as they are original ... [a] superb premiere recording."
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