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“Roger Vignoles is a most sympathetic accompanist, and virtuosic where virtuosity is called for, and the whole set is at one with Duparc's own evaluation of these magnificent songs” Gramophone Magazine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Virgins, Vixens & Viragos: Susan Graham
Susan Graham’s eagerly awaited new ONYX CD is a characteristically wide ranging recital which covers a wide spectrum of female emotions as experienced by the virgins, vixens and one of the most frightening of viragos – Lady Macbeth, all captured here in song. In addition to these emotional extremes, there are also lighter issues for a girl to confront, in the Poulenc, and a fruitless pursuit of a boy in the Sondheim to lighten the mood! Susan is one of the great mezzo sopranos of our time, renowned for her operatic performances, and for her recitals. Her earlier CD for ONYX ‘Un frisson francais – A century of French Song' was widely praised. “It’s hard to think of another contemporary singer who could pull off the tour de force Graham achieves here, with numbers ranging over a period of almost 300 years...Graham is in her element as the vixens” Sunday Times, 2nd December 2012 “Graham is an artist to treausre, a striking mezzo whose powerful silky voice can achieve Janet Baker-like expressiveness, with a gift for French song but also a mile-wide impish streak...Porter's anatomically witty lament and Sondheim's wicked Girl from Ipanema parody leave one chuckling for all the right reasons. All told, a gem.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2013 **** “I can't think of another singer today who could match Susan Graham in an eclectic programme ranging across three centuries, four languages and a diverse array of idioms...In glowing voice, Graham opens with a richly imagined, deeply felt performance of Purcell's quasi-operatic scena, culminating in repeated cries on 'Gabriel' of almost excruciating intensity...a recital of rare versatility and panache” Gramophone Magazine, March 2013 “ Her Berlioz performance is wonderful: here she deploys gorgeous, full tone and, as so often on this disc, treats us to some very expressive singing...This is a delicious recital. Susan Graham’s lustrous voice and intelligent approach to a well-conceived and nicely varied programme gave me consistent pleasure, as did the pianism of Malcolm Martineau, which is splendid at every turn.” MusicWeb International, March 2013 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Duparc: Complete Songs
Mireille Delunsch (soprano), Vincent Le Texier (baritone) & François Kerdoncuff (piano) A French label, French composer and the complete song collection, the perfect combination. These songs - the thirteen for voice and piano of the 1911 edition and three youthful essays, together with a duet – were composed between 1868 and 1884. ‘Imperfect but brilliant’ – such was Ravel’s opinion on Duparc’s songs, but their brilliance should outweigh the imperfections if one considers posterity’s undying attachment to these songs that mark a high-point of expression in French music. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Henri Duparc: Mélodies
Nora Gubisch (mezzo) & Alai Altinoglu (piano) These rarely recorded works are brought together by two musicians with a passion for the works of Henri Duparc. His compositional aim was to move every audience , and in his words - “ True music, the only music, is the music of the soul, of emotion….if the artist, in the process of finding ideas, does not feel the thrill of emotion, he will never be moving” This recording is a testament to this both from the composers and the artists perspective. | | | This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched. |
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| |  | Karita Mattila: Helsinki Recital
Duparc: | L'Invitation au voyage Romance de Mignon Au pays ou se fait la guerre Chanson triste Phidylé | Dvorak: | Gypsy Melodies (7), Op. 55 (B104) | Rachmaninov: | Sing not, O lovely one (Ne poi, krasavitsa, pri mne), Op. 4 No. 4 Twilight, Op.21 No. 3 Fragment from A. Musset, Op. 21 No. 6 The Muse, Op. 34 No. 1 What happiness, Op. 34 No.12 | Saariaho: | Quatre Instants | trad.: | Minun kultani kaunis on (Ah, How Fair My Sweetheart Is) Finnish Traditional. Encore | Young, V: | Golden Earrings (from the motion picture) Encore |
+ BONUS CD Lieder by Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Sibelius, Kuula, Melartin Karita Mattila (soprano) Ilmo Ranta (piano)
DVD + bonus CD This new release pays tribute to Finnish superstar Karita Mattila on the occasion of her 50th birthday in September 2010. This DVD features a recital performance which Karita Mattila gave to a compatriot audience at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, in October 2006. International critics praised the recorded sell-out concerts: “Karita Mattila at her glorious peak… No wonder the Helsinki audience went berserk.” The Daily Telegraph This is the much-awaited first-ever release of Helsinki Recital on DVD; it includes previously unreleased encore material. The original sound recording of Helsinki Recital, released as hybrid SACD in June 2007 garnered the highest accolades throughout the international press, including BBC Music Magazine ‘Song Choice’ and Gramophone ‘Editor’s Choice’. This product includes a free bonus CD compilation featuring Karita Mattila and pianist Ilmo Ranta with German and Finnish standard repertoire Lied songs. DVD Video [90’39] NTSC colour 16:9 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround PCM Stereo Region Code 0 Available Worldwide “a thrilling crescendo of the performance art of one of the greatest living sopranos...She feasts on every language she takes on; and her fearless barefoot physicality in Dvorak's Gypsy Songs anticipates an encore in which she all but lap-dances...In summary, then, this is a real treasure trove of delights!” BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2010 ***** “the Mattila of 2006, fearlessly engaged and with a collaborator rather than an accompanist in the diminutive Martin Katz, is quite simply a phenomenon” International Record Review, November 2010 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Duparc - Complete Melodies
Michèle Losier (mezzo-soprano) & Daniel Blumenthal (piano) The complete melodic works of Duparc, the pinnacle of 19th-century song and the heart and soul of French Romanticism. A native of Quebec, Michèle Losier, has been applauded on numerous North-American opera stages, and impressed the judges of the 2008 Reine Elisabeth Singing Competition, where she met Daniel Blumenthal, the ideal accompanist, and together recorded this project in the Concertgebouw in Bruges.The result enablies us to admire the lesser known melodies of this great genius, next to his more celebrated masterpieces. | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Karita Mattila Helsinki Recital
“The songs push Mattila to her expressive limits as cries of rapture curdle into shrieks of pain and spasms of rage intrude on erotic memories. Its impact on the audience can be gauged from the near hysteria that erupts at the end…Her accompanist, Martin
Katz, deals superbly with some of the most fearsomely difficult piano writing in the entire song repertoire.” The Guardian “Best of all is the highly expressive Quatre Instants by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, dedicated to Mattila and showing how the singer is prepared to extend her range into new music to quite stunning effect.” Financial Times “Following the Saariaho, passion is torn to tatters in the Rachmaninov group, with perhaps the strongest advocacy of the two Pushkin settings (Oh, do not sing tome and The Muse) since Söderström. Then, instead of making this the final item, Mattila ops for the gentler, even light-hearted, envoi of the Dvorák songs - superbly done, with a real wit and character. Nothing but praise then for the soprano, with generous, untiring and subtly detailed concentration over a longish time span in heavy repertoire, or for her accompanist (Katz is a real listener to what his singer does).” Gramophone Magazine, August 2007 “A frame of applause and ecstatic ovations greet what is one of Karita Mattila's most exciting discs yet… The repertoire takes Mattila's voice into thrilling new regions; and Martin Katz's piano is the voice's equal at every turn.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2007 *****  BBC Music Magazine
Choral & Song Choice - July 2007 |
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| |  | Mireille Delunsch: La Tragédienne
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| |  | L'Invitation au VoyageSongs from the 19th & 20th Centuries
Annette Celine (soprano), Christopher Gould (piano) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Duparc: Integrale des Melodies
Amaryllis Gregoire (soprano), Luc Devos (piano) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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