Browse: Le Concert d’Astrée (early music ensemble)
This page lists all recordings performed by Le Concert d’Astrée.
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Handel: Italian cantatas
RecommendedSabine Devieilhe (soprano), Léa Desandre (mezzo)
Le Concert d'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord, organ and conductor)
This production is a delight throughout…Haïm retains control by preparing both the scores and the sopranos’ ornaments, her vision giving this carefully wrought performance a fiery intensity,... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2018, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, Choral & Song Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Vocal
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Monteverdi: Combattimento
Rolando Villazón, Patrizia Ciofi & Topi Lehtipuu
Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm
The atmosphere is electric. Villazón is pouring out Monteverdi’s beautiful lines of remorseful agony with spell-binding force. It’s his first foray into early music, but he tosses off the tricky... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2007, Choral & Song Choice
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Record Review, December 2006, Critics Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2007, Editor's Choice
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Handel: Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV46a
RecommendedNatalie Dessay (Bellezza), Ann Hallenberg (Piacere), Sonia Prina (Disinganno), Pavol Breslik (Tempo)
Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm
Beauty's final aria (sung by Natalie Dessay) is unconventionally slow and intensely moving, accompanied by obbligato violin possibly intended for Corelli who may have led the first performance.... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2007, Disc of the month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Opera Award Winner
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Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto, K87
Michael Spyres (Mitridate), Patricia Petibon (Aspasia), Myrtò Papatanasiu (Sifare), Christophe Dumaux (Farnace), Sabine Devieilhe (Ismène), Cyrille Dubois (Marzio) & Jaël Azzaretti (Arbate)
Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm
This is a really good cast. Patricia Petibon’s daunting but brilliant first aria as Aspasia, ‘Al destin’, is sung with panache and nonchalant control. Michael Spyres negotiates the great vocal... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2017
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JS Bach: Magnificat and Handel: Dixit Dominus
Natalie Dessay, Karine Deshayes, Philippe Jaroussky, Laurent Naouri & Toby Spence
Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm
Haïm's performances are light-footed and elegantly phrased and her mainly pleasing line-up of soloists is attentive to textural content and word-painting. — More…
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Handel: Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV46a
Sabine Devieilhe (Bellezza), Franco Fagioli (Piacere), Sara Mingardo (Disinganno), Michael Spyres (Tempo) with the participation of Christine Angot
Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm (conductor) & Krzysztof Warlikowski (stage director)
Deveilhe..singing exquisitely throughout…Spyres staggers the ear with unfailingly firm tone over an extraordinary wide range. Leading her superbly stylish, technically adroit Concert d’Astrée,... — More…
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Handel: Aci, Galatea e Polifemo
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Sara Mingardo (alto), Laurent Naouri (bass)
Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm
The cantata or serenata a 3 (for three), Aci,Galatea e Polifemo, dates from Handel's visit to Naples in 1708, and it has almost nothing in common, except for its subject matter, with his exquisite... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2003, Editor's Choice
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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
RecommendedSusan Graham (Dido), Ian Bostridge (Aeneas), Camilla Tilling (Belinda), Cécile de Boever (Second Woman), Felicity Palmer (Sorceress), David Daniels (Spirit), Paul Agnew (Sailor) & Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord & direction)
Le Concert d’Astrée & European Voices
Haïm's continuo group plays a vital role in the vibrancy of the performance: six of em...constantly changing colour in an organic tapestry that's continually evolving, improvised in response... — More…
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Building a Library, November 2019, Also Recommended
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