Raphaël Pichon
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the concert-aria and operatic readings themselves are gems, each one thrown off with a splendid combination of technical brilliance, musicianly assurance and tonal sweetness, and impeccably... — More…
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th November 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Recital
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A thoughtful assembly of music depicting affliction and repentance on the one hand and joy and desire on the other. The recording finds Sabine Devieilhe on sparkling form. Bach and Handel do... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2021, Recording of the Month
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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[Degout] possesses the rare facility to mix raw muscle with the subtlest caresses…In the infernal symphonies that pepper Enfers, the band attacks the score with an almost fiendish ferocity…Don’t... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2018, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 24th February 2018, Recording of the Week
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Vocal
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International Opera Awards, 2019, Winner - Recital Album
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Delibes: Lakmé
Sabine Devieilhe (Lakmé), Frederic Antoun (Gérald), Stephane Degout (Frédéric), Ambroisine Bré (Mallika), Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon, Laurent Pelly
Laurent Pelly transforms Delibes's opera into an exploration of colonialism and cultural appropriation...Raphaël Pichon, conducting Pygmalion on original instruments, relishes Delibes’s lush... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2024, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2024, Opera Choice
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Delibes: Lakmé
Sabine Devieilhe (Lakmé), Frederic Antoun (Gérald), Stephane Degout (Frédéric), Ambroisine Bré (Mallika), Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon, Laurent Pelly
Pichon conducts the Pygmalion ensemble and choir with dash and urgency, the period instruments adding a litheness to the textures – there is no room for false sentimentality. Pelly goes for... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2024, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Rameau: Castor et Pollux
Colin Ainsworth (Castor), Florian Sempey (Pollux), Emmanuelle de Negri (Télaire), Clémentine Margaine (Phoebe), Christian Immler (Jupiter), Sabine Devieilhe (Cléone), Philippe Talbot (Mercury), Virgile Ancely (High Priest)
Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Emmanuelle de Negri delivers a plangent account of Télaïre's Act II lament 'Tristes apprêts'...Clémentine Margaine is a characterful Phébé with a powerful, coppery chest voice...Though the Underworld... — More…
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Rameau: Dardanus
Bernard Richter, Gaëlle Arquez, João Fernandes, Benoit Arnould, Alain Buet, Sabine Devieilhe, Emmanuelle De Negri & Romain Champion
Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
The singing is first class, with Bernard Richter outstanding as Dardanus, while Ensemble Pygmalion bring out all the hues of Rameau’s colourful score — More…
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Classical 2016
Anja Harteros (soprano), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Plácido Domingo (tenor), Diana Damrau (soprano), Anna Netrebko (soprano), Rolando Villazón (tenor), Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano), Héloise Mas (mezzo-soprano), Sabine Devieilhe (soprano), Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano), Vilde Frang (violin), Martha...
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Rameau: Dardanus
Bernard Richter, Gaëlle Arquez, João Fernandes, Benoit Arnould, Alain Buet, Sabine Devieilhe, Emmanuelle De Negri & Romain Champion
Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Richter is very strong in the title role through much of the score, though most especially in the radiant final two acts...The Ensemble Pygmalion...clearly relish its orchestral opportunities... — More…
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Cavalli: Ercole Amante Nahuel di Pierro, Anna Bonitatibus, Giuseppina Bridelli, Francesca Aspromonte, Krystian Adam, Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Even if Pichon’s ideas occasionally gild the fleur-de-lys, Pygmalion’s animated music-making serves to resuscitate this extraordinary opera admirably. — More…
Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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