Bernarda Fink
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Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
RecommendedChristian Gerhaher (Pelléas), Magdalena Kožená (Mélisande), Bernarda Fink (Geneviève), Franz-Josef Selig (Arkel), Gerald Finley (Golaud), Elias Mädler (Yniold), Joshua Bloom ((Shepherd/Doctor)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
Kožená’s Melisande has a firm streak of red-blooded coquettish defiance that is effective, even if it belies the character’s customary blanched fragility. Christian Gerhaher’s Pélleas is similarly... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th October 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Opera
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Opera Recording (20th/21st century)
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Opera
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Handel: Rinaldo RecommendedCecilia Bartoli (Almirena), David Daniels (Rinaldo), Bernarda Fink (Goffredo), Gerald Finley (Argante), Luba Orgonasova (Armida), Daniel Taylor (Eustazio), Bejun Mehta (A Christian Magician)
Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
most familiar and unfamiliar opera: familiar because, as his lavish first stage work for London, it has been much written about both by modern historians and by the composer's contemporaries;... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2001, Winner - Editor's Choice
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Life with Czech Music - Janacek & Martinu
RecommendedElisabeth Söderström (soprano), Drahomira Drobkova (contralto), Frantisek Livora (tenor), Richard Novak (bass), Jan Hora (organ), Kvetoslava Nemeckova (soprano), Leo Marian Vodicka (tenor), Vaclav Zitek (baritone), Josef Ruzicka (piano), Jan Bouse (timpani), Eva Urbanova (soprano), Bernarda Fink...
Even the recording acoustic is warm, enough sometimes to curl the music’s edges and smudge away little details. But Mackerras’s handling of this repertoire is so fresh, so responsive to the... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Choral
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Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K621
RecommendedMark Padmore (Tito), Alexandrina Pendatchanska (Vitellia), Bernarda Fink (Sesto), Marie-Claude Chappuis (Annio), Sunhae Im (Servilia) & Sergio Foresti (Publio)
RIAS Kammerchor & Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs
A high-voltage performance with vivid characterisations — More…
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Building a Library, September 2006, First Choice
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Record Review, December 2006, Critics Disc of the Year
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Mozart: Idomeneo, K366
RecommendedRichard Croft (Idomeneo), Bernarda Fink (Idamante), Sunhae Im (Ilia), Alexandrina Pendatchanska (Elettra), Kenneth Tarver (Arbace), Nicolas Rivenq (Gran Sacerdote) & Luca Tittoto (La Voce)
RIAS Kammerchor & Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs
Jacob's strongest players are the superb Idamante of Bernarda Fink: tender, ardent and in touch with every nerve-ending of every beautifully shaped phrase. Alexandrina Pendatchanska, from her... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th May 2009
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2009, Editor's Choice
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An excellent cast in one of Handel's greatest operas. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
RecommendedLaurence Dale (Orfeo), Efrat Ben-Nun (Euridice/La Musica), Jennifer Larmore (Messaggiera), Paul Gérimon (Caronte), Harry Peeters (Plutone), Bernarda Fink (Proserpina), Nicolas Rivenq (Apollo), Andreas Scholl (Speranza)
Concerto Vocale, René Jacobs
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Building a Library, May 2017, Also Recommended
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
RecommendedBernarda Fink (Orfeo) Veronica Cangemi (Euridice), Maria Cristina Kiehr (Amor)
Freiburger Barockorchester & Rias Kammerchor, René Jacobs
Jacobs conducts an urgent, pungently characterised performance — More…
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Building a Library, March 2003, First Choice
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Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea
Sylvia McNair, Anne Sofie von Otter, Dana Hanchard, Michael Chance
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
The central question was always about how much needs to be added to the surviving notes in order to make Poppea viable on stage. Gardiner and his advisers believe that nothing needs adding and... — More…
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Je n'aime pas Verdi, mais ça j'aime bien !
Georges Prêtre, Carlo Bergonzi (tenor), Montserrat Caballé (soprano), Franco Ruta, Camillo Sforza, Flavio Tasin, Nancy Stokes, Gene Boucher, Fernando Iacopucci, Sherrill Milnes, Harold Enns, Robert Shaw (chorus master), RCA Victor Orchestra, Robert Shaw Chorale, Nello Santi, Plácido Domingo (tenor),...
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