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Véronique Gens: Tragediennes 1 (French Operatic Tragedies)
Véronique Gens (soprano)
Ensemble les Talens Lyrique, Christophe Rousset
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2006, Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2006, Editor's Choice
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Handel: Messiah
RecommendedLucy Crowe (soprano), Alex Potter (countertenor), Michael Spyres (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), The English Concert & Choir, John Nelson
The theatrical instincts that have served Nelson so well in Berlioz ensure some detailed characterisation such as the semiquaver flurry of beating wings as the angels prepare to impart their... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd December 2023
2 CDs + DVD Video
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My Christmas
RecommendedDiana Damrau (soprano), Matthias Höfs (trumpet), NDR Radiophilharmonie, Knabenchor Hanover, Richard Whilds, Riccardo Minasi
Damrau’s two-disc My Christmas ticks some of the same boxes as the legendary Elisabeth Schwarzkopf’s Christmas Album, though Damrau seems more naturally at home in the seasonal idiom...Opinions... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd December 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year
2 CDs
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JS Bach: Violin Concertos
RecommendedShunske Sato (violin), Zefira Valova (second violin)
Il Pomo d'oro
All the speeds here just feel right: unhurried, but equally brimming with energy and flow. What really makes this recording one to treasure, though, is the degree of uncontrived personality... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 5th January 2019, Disc of the Week
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Building A Library, February 2022, Also Recommended
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The result is not so much a viewing of Satie though a Cageian lens, but a viewing of the two through the distinctive, brilliant lens of a sensitive pianist, newly converted. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
CD
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With an almost ideal balance between piano and strings, the variety of articulation in their playing brings a marvellous textural variety to the full-blooded writing in the outer movements of... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2008, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2007, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Winner - Chamber
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Building a Library, April 2021, Also Recommended - Schumann Quintet
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How can one resist the combination of Marianne Crebassa’s attractive voice and a selection of French song, especially Debussy’s Chansons de Bilitis and three Veraline songs? As for Ravel’s Shéhérazade,... — More…
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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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Record Review, 28th October 2017, Recording of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Winner - Solo Vocal
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Anderszewski out-classes his rivals in his Szymanowski recital — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2005, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2006, Winner - Instrumental
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Ravel: Piano Concertos & De Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Orchestre National de France, Louis Langrée
There is much to admire here, not least the Orchestre National de France, which is on superlative form under Louis Langrée...Tharaud is the star of the show, though, and something special might... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto
CD
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This is an excellent performance [of La mer], tautly focused, as is Krivine’s way, yet propulsive and flowing in its sense of the music’s organic evolution and internal logic. There’s real mystery... — More…
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Record Review, 26th May 2018, Recording of the Week
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