Browse: John Chest (baritone)
This page lists all recordings performed by John Chest.
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Handel: Theodora
RecommendedLisette Oropesa (Theodora), Joyce DiDonato (Irene), Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian (Didymus), Michael Spyres (Septimius), John Chest (Valens), Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
This is now the benchmark Theodora; it is optimally cast, dramatically intense and luminously beautiful. Its world-class principals use their fine vocal qualities to deepen their characters.... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th October 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2022, Recording of the Month
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Choral
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year (Oropesa & DiDonato)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Male Singer of the Year (Spyres)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Libertà!
RecommendedSabine Devieilhe (soprano), Siobhan Stagg (soprano), Serena Malfi (mezzo), Linard Vrielink (tenor), John Chest (baritone), Nahuel di Pierro (bass-baritone)
Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Pichon’s approach is ingenious…Sabine Devieilhe is the show’s star. Her distinctive soprano excels not only in the fiery passage work of ‘Da Schlagt’ (from Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor) but... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal
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Fauré: The Complete Songs, Vol. 2
Malcolm Martineau (piano), John Chest (baritone), Janis Kelly (soprano), Lorna Anderson (soprano), Ben Johnson (tenor), Ann Murray (mezzo), Nigel Cliffe (baritone), Thomas Oliemans (baritone), Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Iestyn Davies (countertenor)
Another lovely evening in an imaginary salon…a plurality of voices evokes a gathering of friends taking turns…At the heart of the disc, Lorna Anderson’s stillness in Le secret is utterly entrancing,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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The concept of the series mixes singers from different generations – all of them British – which provides a vivid palette of colours for the superb pianist Malcolm Martineau to play with. Everybody... — More…
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Malcolm Martineau plays Fauré with Friends Malcolm Martineau (piano), Louise Kennedy, Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor), Lorna Anderson, John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Thomas Oliemans, Janis Kelly (soprano), Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano), Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), William Dazeley, John Chest (baritone), Isobel Buchanan...
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Fauré: The Complete Songs Vol. 3
Lorna Anderson, Louise Kemény, Isobel Buchanan, Janis Kelly (sopranos), Sarah Connolly, Ann Murray (mezzos), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), John Chest, William Dazeley (baritones), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Lorna Anderson displays outstanding control in a triptych reflecting wounded love…Martineau is predictably outstanding throughout, with deft pacing and his finely-judged gradations of touch always... — More…
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Fauré: The Complete Songs, Vol. 1
Malcolm Martineau (piano), Ann Murray (mezzo), John Chest (baritone), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Nigel Cliffe (baritone), Ben Johnson (tenor), Lorna Anderson (soprano), Janis Kelly (soprano), Joan Rodgers (soprano)
This fine start to the cycle more than whets the appetite for future volumes. — More…
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Hugo Wolf: The Complete Songs, Vol. 11
Fflur Wyn, Sophie Bevan, Rowan Hellier, Adrian Thompson (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone), John Chest, Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Sholto Kynoch
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It’s a young man’s cycle, and Chest is in the full bloom of youth. Things get off to a suitably rollicking start…Chest, his German attentively enunciated, setting out his stall with heroic declamatory... — More…
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Handel: Apollo e Dafne & Armida abbandonata Kathryn Lewek (soprano), John Chest (baritone)
Il Pomo d'Oro, Francesco Corti
Her Armida commands vocal muscle and jagged cadenzas, while her Dafne is all limpid purity sprinkled with agréments. The effect is spellbinding….Il Pomo d’Oro do their own shapeshifting, in obbligato... — More…
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