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Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust
RecommendedMichael Spyres (Faust), Joyce DiDonato (Marguerite), Nicolas Courjal (Méphistophélès), Alexandre Duhamel (Brander)
Coro Gulbenkian, Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, John Nelson
Nelson has a great feel for the weird structure of the piece, with its sudden lurches of pace and location...Nelson’s pacing is uncannily ‘right’; he’s not one to force Berlioz, period-style,... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, November 2019, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd November 2019
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year (DiDonato)
2 CDs + DVD Video
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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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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245
RecommendedWerner Güra (Evangelist), Johannes Weisser (bass arias/Christus), Andrew Redmon (Petrus), Johannes Schendel (Pilatus), Sunhae Im (soprano arias), Benno Schachtner (alto arias), Sebastian Kohlhepp (tenor arias), Fabienne Weiss (Ancilla), Minsub Hong (Servus)
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS...
Clarity of sound and purpose distinguish [this] recording…woodwind are placed in front of the strings, allowing for exceptional detail in the turba choruses [while] the soloists sing throughout,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th March 2016
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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International Classical Music Awards, 2017, Winner - Baroque Vocal
2 SACDs + DVD Video
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Suzi Digby’s ORA Singers performance [of Spem], at a touch over nine minutes, is one of the f leetest on record, and boasts an expert choir whose tuning is immaculate and who munch the technical... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st August 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Life with Czech Music - Janacek & Martinu
RecommendedElisabeth Söderström (soprano), Drahomira Drobkova (contralto), Frantisek Livora (tenor), Richard Novak (bass), Jan Hora (organ), Kvetoslava Nemeckova (soprano), Leo Marian Vodicka (tenor), Vaclav Zitek (baritone), Josef Ruzicka (piano), Jan Bouse (timpani), Eva Urbanova (soprano), Bernarda Fink (contralto),...
Even the recording acoustic is warm, enough sometimes to curl the music’s edges and smudge away little details. But Mackerras’s handling of this repertoire is so fresh, so responsive to the folk-music... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Choral
4 CDs + DVD Video
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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245
Recommendedcontains 2 DVDs and Blu-ray disc
Mark Padmore (Evangelist), Camilla Tilling (soprano), Magdalena Kožená (mezzo), Topi Lehtipuu (tenor), Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Roderick Williams (Jesus)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle, Peter Sellars (director)
Sellars is an intrinsically 'musical' director...Williams's Christ all but steals the show - even alongside tenor Mark Padmore whose Evangelist fearlessly interrogates as well as interprets the... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Plácido Domingo (Simon Boccanegra), Marina Poplavskaya (Amelia Grimaldi/Maria Boccanegra), Joseph Calleja (Gabriele Adorno), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Jacope Fiesco), Jonathan Summers (Paolo Albiani), Lukas Jakobski (Piero)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano
The result is far more than a vanity project...overall [Domingo] makes a remarkably moving and complex creation out of it...Summers is worn but malevolent in his sharply etched portrayal of the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2011, DVD of the Month
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Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
Burkhard Fritz (Waldemar), Emily Magee (Tove), Anna Larsson (Waldtaube), Markus Marquard (Bauer), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Klaus-Narr), Sunnyi Melles (Narrator)
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus of the Dutch National Opera, Marc Albrecht (conductor) & Pierre Audi (director)
The whole production presents a formidable challenge to any opera house contemplating an alternative staging. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2017, DVD of the Month
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Sacred Music: A Christmas History & A Choral Christmas RecommendedPresented by Simon Russell Beale
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
Together [Beale and Christophers] form a fascinating insight into the way Christmas music has developed over the millennia from a fragment of papyrus preserving the earliest known piece of Christian... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th December 2011
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Orff: Carmina Burana
Lucia Popp (soprano), John van Kesteren (tenor), Hermann Prey (baritone)
Munich Radio Orchestra & Bavarian Radio Choir, Kurt Eichhorn
an imaginative staging... The main background set is a ruined church, against which the singers are seen in medieval costume, with action, sometimes surreal, invented to illustrate each section... — More…
