Browse: Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto)
This page lists all recordings performed by Marie-Nicole Lemieux.
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (Didon), Michael Spyres (Énée), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Cassandre), Orchestre et Choeur philharmonique de Strasbourg, Badischer Staatsopernchor, Choeur de l’Opéra du Rhin, John Nelson
Nelson drives the drama with unforced tempos but ample theatrical vitality and grandeur…Spyres isn’t as heroic an Aeneas as Jon Vickers…but sings with lyrical grace and spirit and decent if not... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th November 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2017
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Recording of the Month
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Winner - Opera
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International Opera Awards, 2018, Winner - Complete Opera Recording
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Record Review, 25th November 2017, Recording of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Recording of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Opera Recording (19th century)
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Opera
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Bernstein: The 3 Symphonies - Casebound Deluxe
RecommendedOrchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sir Antonio Pappano
Rana glitters away at the piano as the observer of inner turmoil in Anxiety; Josephine Barstow makes an excellent first of Bernstein’s often embarrassing Kaddish narration…but the lynchpin remains... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2018, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th August 2018
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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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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Orchestral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Winner - Symphonic Music
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Berlioz, Ravel & Saint-Saëns
RecommendedMarie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto), Orchestre philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Kazuki Yamada
The Berlioz and Ravel cycles are natural partners, and Lemieux’s beguiling performance sets a formidable benchmark...Kazuki Yamada ensures that the Monte-Carlo players support every nuance, though... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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If Handel’s Xerxes has a showmanship, an aesthetic swagger that Cavalli’s lacks in the lilting prettiness of his own ode to a plane tree, we see the Italian’s skill emerge elsewhere – in the... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th March 2019
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Winner - Recital
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Vocal
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Mer(s)
RecommendedMarie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto)
Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Paul Daniel
Lemieux is on imperious form in Sea Pictures. Her rich contralto sits easily in Elgar’s writing…She is magnificent [in the Chausson], completely at home in the fleshy vocal lines of Maurice Bouchor’s... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal
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Sì, Sì, Sì, Sì!
RecommendedRossini Opera Arias & Duets
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto), Patrizia Ciofi (soprano)
Orchestre national de Montpellier Occitanie, Enrique Mazzola
Lemieux is paired with the dreamy, soft soprano of Patrizia Ciofi and their voices intertwine very nicely in the Norma-like consecutive thirds of Tancredi’s ‘Lasciami: non t’ascolto’. The celebrated... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Recital
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Honegger & Ibert: L'Aiglon Anne-Catherine Gillet, Hélène Guilmette, Tyler Duncan, Étienne Dupuis, Marc Barrard, Philippe Sly, Julie Boulianne, Isaiah Bell, Pascal Charbonneau, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Kimy McLaren
Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Kent Nagano
Conducted with care and palpable affection by Kent Nagano, [this release] boasts a fine, mostly francophone ensemble cast, with not a weak link anywhere. At its centre…is Anne-Catherine Gillet’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2016, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2016, Winner - Première au Disque
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Opera, July 2016, Recording of the Month
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Vivaldi: Griselda, RV718
Recommendedworld première recording
Griselda: Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto), Costanza: Veronica Cangemi (soprano), Ottone: Simone Kermes (soprano), Roberto: Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Gualtiero: Stefano Ferrari (tenor) & Corrado: Iestyn Davies (countertenor)
Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi
…one of Vivaldi's strongest and most cohesive operas. Jean-Christophe Spinosi's intuitive and vital direction achieves rewarding results. His instrumentalists are first-rate and the choice... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2006, Disc of the month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Opera Award Winner
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Ne me refuse pas: French Opera Arias
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto)
Orchestre National de France, Fabien Gabel
This procession of femmes fatales, schemers and innocents has a point to make, and it's not just the singer's ability to get under their skin...it shows them as part of a larger movement: the... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Recital
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Opera, June 2011, Recording of the Month
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Handel: Rodelinda
Simone Kermes (Rodelinda), Marijana Mijanovic (Bertarido), Sonia Prina (Eduige), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Unolfo), Steve Davislim (Grimoaldo), Vito Priante (Garibaldo)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
Of available recordings this set has the edge, for its greater dramatic urgency and richer characterisation. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2005, Editor's Choice
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