Browse: Piotr Beczala (tenor)
This page lists all recordings performed by Piotr Beczala.
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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…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th May 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2020, Recording of the Month
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Opera, July 2020, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Male Singer of the Year
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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…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th May 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2020, Recording of the Month
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Opera, July 2020, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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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…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st August 2011
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2011, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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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…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd February 2015
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, Opera Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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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…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th August 2023
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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…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd January 2012
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The voice has body, especially in the upper middle register, and an exciting ring on top. — More…
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Opera, August 2008, Recording of the Month
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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…
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Classical Compendium
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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Piotr Beczala (Gustaf III), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Renato Ankarstrom), Krassimira Stoyanova (Amelia), Nadia Krasteva (Ulrica), Hila Fahima (Oscar), Wiener Staatsoper, Jesús López Cobos
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
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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…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2013, Opera Choice
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