Piotr Beczala
-
This is a big voice with a warm Italianate tone and a fitting sense of the legato required for this repertoire. Verismo sobbing is kept to a minimum. Beczala knows exactly how to build the drama... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 15th May 2020
-
Gramophone Magazine, June 2020, Recording of the Month
-
Opera, July 2020, Disc of the Month
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
CD
$17.75 -
-
Many of the songs here make formidable technical demands on the pianist as well as the singer, and I mean absolutely no disrespect to Beczała when I say that Deutsch’s playing would be worth... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 25th August 2023
CD
$17.75Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
This is a big voice with a warm Italianate tone and a fitting sense of the legato required for this repertoire. Verismo sobbing is kept to a minimum. Beczala knows exactly how to build the drama... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 15th May 2020
-
Gramophone Magazine, June 2020, Recording of the Month
-
Opera, July 2020, Disc of the Month
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
-
Opus Klassik, 2021, Male Singer of the Year
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Piotr Beczala: The French Collection
RecommendedPiotr Beczala (tenor), Diana Damrau (soprano)
Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Lyon, Alain Altinoglu
Crucially, his linguistic abilities are up to the challenge, and throughout the recital his French proves genuinely idiomatic. So does his appreciation of French style, with its important focus... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd February 2015
-
BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, Opera Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
RecommendedNatalie Dessay (Lucia), Piotr Beczala (Edgardo), Vladislav Sulimsky (Enrico), Dmitry Voropaev (Arturo), Ilya Bannik (Raimondo), Zhanna Dombrovskaya (Alisa) & Sergei Skorokhodov (Normanno)
Mariinsky Orchestra & Chorus, Valery Gergiev
Everything Dessay does is lovely, but there is a lack of the desperation which should pervade the role...[Beczala is] actually more moving and Italianate than Dessay. Still, as post-Maria Callas... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 1st August 2011
-
Gramophone Magazine, October 2011, Editor's Choice
-
Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Special offer. Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Piotr Beczala (tenor), Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Gerold Huber (piano)
Bereft of its orchestral colouring it surely presents a formidable challenge. Yet the plasticity of Gerhaher’s story telling is enhanced as, freed from breasting a large ensemble with exaggerated... — More…
CD
Original price ($18.00) Reduced price $14.40Only 17 left at clearance priceMaximum 1 purchase per customerClearance prices not guaranteed until checkout is completedDownloads
Audio formats guide -
Fiamma del Bel Canto: Diana Damrau
Diana Damrau (soprano), Nicole Brandolino (Anna), Piotr Beczała (Alfredo), Nicolas Testé (Wurm)
Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino, Gianandrea Noseda
Damrau is at her best, mellifluous and agile. — More…
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9
RecommendedAnnette Dasch (soprano), Mihoko Fujimura (alto), Piotr Beczala (tenor), Georg Zeppenfeld (bass)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann
Thielemann is a musician who is not only conservative but thought-prokovingly original - and his performances will appeal to listeners who long for a return to interpretative values that are... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd January 2012
6 CDs
$61.75 -
-
Verdi: Arias
Piotr Beczala (tenor), Ewa Podles (contralto), Mariusz Kwiecien (baritone)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukas Borowicz
The Polish tenor's move into a heavier repertoire than hitherto associated with him is amply vindicated in this celebratory CD...he retains the golden quality of his voice as he sizes up. The... — More…
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, July 2013, Opera Choice
CD
$17.25Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
A Concert for Ukraine
RecommendedVladyslav Buialskyi (baritone), Lise Davidsen (soprano), Jamie Barton (mezzo-soprano), Piotr Beczala (tenor), Ryan Speedo Green (bass-baritone), Elza van den Heever (soprano)
Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
This is a moving record of the Metropolitan Opera’s concert in solidarity with Ukraine, back in March, when the war was in its early days. A stirring Ukrainian national anthem and Silvestrov’s... — More…
Awards:
-
Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Classical Compendium
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
