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Bizet: Carmen
RecommendedJulia Migenes (Carmen), Plácido Domingo (Don José), Ruggero Raimondi (Escamillo), Faith Esham (Micaëla), Susan Daniel (Mercédès), Lilian Watson (Frasquita), François Le Roux (Moralès), John Paul Bogart (Zuniga)
Choeurs et Maîtrise de Radio France & Orchestre National de France, Lorin Maazel
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Grammy Awards, 27th Awards (1984), Best Opera Recording
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Séguedilles
RecommendedMarianne Crebassa (mezzo), Orchestre et Choeur du National du Capitole de Toulouse, Ben Glassberg; Thibaut Garcia (guitar), Alphonse Cemin (piano)
Crebassa is in tremendous voice throughout, her lower registers dark and burnished, her top notes warm, clear and effortless...Outstanding, every single second of it. — More…
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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, December 2021, Editor's Choice
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Vivaldi: Stabat Mater, Rv 621
Jakub Józef Orliński (counter-tenor), Capella Cracoviensis, Jan Tomasz Adamus
You’re likely either to love or to loathe Sebastian Pańczyk’s short film which provides a contemporary visual accompaniment to Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater – rather in the manner of a pop or rock... — More…
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Audiovisual Music Production
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Tharaud plays Rachmaninov
RecommendedAlexandre Tharaud (piano), Sabine Devieilhe (soprano), Aleksandar Madžar (piano) & Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Vedernikov
After the famous introductory bars – following the score rather than the composer’s recording – the sweeping first subject enters faster, thankfully, than Richter’s celebrated account but with... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Green - Melodies françaises on Verlaine’s poems
Recommended2CD Casebound Deluxe (Limited Edition)
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Jerome Ducros (piano) & Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
Quatuor Ebène
may be the single most appealing and important French song recital this side of the largely excellent but sometimes uneven Fauré and Debussy discs on Hyperion...Throughout, Jaroussky's singing... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Vocal Winner
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Meyerbeer: Grand Opera
Standard Edition
Diana Damrau (soprano)
Orchestre et Choeur de l'Opéra National de Lyon, Emmanuel Villaume
Diana Damrau tackles with pretty consistent success all the vocal difficulties Meyerbeer threw at his heroines - and some of his mature works were written for the leading singers of the day.... — More…
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Schallplattenkritik Awards, 2017, Winner - Jahrespreis
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Opera, June 2017, Recording of the Month
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Female Singer of the Year
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Bartók: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedRenaud Capuçon (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra, François-Xavier Roth
The early concerto’s lyrical opening movement finds Renaud Capuçon in his element, producing paying of great Warmth and intimacy…Capuçon negotiates Bartok’s very tricky writing with admirable... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd March 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Schumann: Cello Concerto & Chamber Works
Gautier Capuçon (cello), Martha Argerich (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Bernard Haitink
Capuçon provides the best of both worlds, creating a profound sense of a lone figure lost in his thoughts during the first two movements, before suggesting an emotional rejuvenation in the finale…Bernard... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Assorted Program
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Schubert: Nacht & Träume
RecommendedLieder with orchestra
Wiebke Lehmkuhl (contralto), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (tenor)
Insula orchestra & accentus, Laurence Equilbey
A surprisingly coherent musical experience. The revelation is the French composer Franck Krawczyk (b.1969) whose bubbling arrangement of An Sylvia had me smiling for days…Wiebke Lehmkuhl and... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th December 2017
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Barricades
RecommendedJean Rondeau (harpsichord), Thomas Dunford (lute), Lea Desandre (mezzo-soprano), Marc Mauillon (baritone), Myriam Rignol (viola da gamba)
Though still both around 30, Dunford and Rondeau are already steeped in this rich and subtle repertoire, and play it like they own it …Both also like to indulge in some slowish tempos, but Dunford’s... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th June 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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