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Meyerbeer: Robert Le Diable
RecommendedJohn Osborn (Robert), Nicolas Courjal (Bertram), Amina Edris (Alice), Erin Morley (Isabelle), Nico Darmanin (Raimbaut)
Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Chœur de l'Opera National de Bordeaux, Marc Minkowski
It all adds up to a formidable re-evaluation of a seminal if neglected work, as well as being a remarkable achievement in its own right. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2022, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Opera
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd December 2022
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Limelight Magazine, January 2023, Recording of the Month
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Finalist - Opera
3 CDs + Book
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Spontini: La vestale
RecommendedMarina Rebeka (Julia), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Licinius), Tassis Christoyannis (Cinna), Aude Extrémo (La Grande Vestale), David Witczak (Un Consul / Chef des Aruspices), Nicolas Courjal (Le Grand Pontife)
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
this new studio recording offers not only musicologically scrupulous foundations but benefits from the period-instrument forces of Les Talens Lyriques, who are intent upon the drama contained... — More…
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Opera, June 2023, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th May 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
2 CDs + Book
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Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers
RecommendedVictor Julien-Laferrière, Théo Fouchenneret, Tristan Raës, Cyrille Dubois (soloist), Roberto Prosseda (piano), Alessandra Ammara, Ismaël Margain, François Dumont, Anna Agafia, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Leo Hussain and Anaïs Constans, Anaïs Constans (soloist), Marie Vermeulin, David...
Although women composers are at last getting more attention, there have been few discoveries as encyclopedic as this. Across eight discs, the legacy of 21 French Romantic composers is explored,... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Box Set of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
8 CDs
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Méhul: Uthal
RecommendedKarine Deshayes (Malvina), Yann Beuron (Uthal), Jean-Sébastien Bou (Larmor), Sébastien Droy (Ullin), Philippe-Nicolas Martin (Le Chef des Bardes / Le Troisième Barde)
Les Talens Lyriques & Choeur de Chambre de Namur, Christophe Rousset
Yann Beuron is the keenly engaged Uthal, while Jean-Sébastien Bou gives Larmor a wronged nobility and Karine Deshayes is consistently expressive as the anguished Malvina. There’s characterful... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th February 2017
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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International Opera Awards, 2018
CD + Book
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Luigi Cherubini: Les Abencérages
Anaïs Constans (Noraïme), Edgaras Montvidas (Almanzor), Thomas Dolié (Le Vizir), Tomislav Lavoie (Alamir), Artavazd Sargsyan (Gozalve), Douglas Williams (Abderam)
Purcell Choir, Orfeo Orchestra and György Vashegyi
Cherubini’s vocal line is free of Italian decorative thrills. Anaïs Constans handles Norïme’s high tessitura with grace, and Edgaras Montvidas’s Almanzor is a worthy heir to Louis Nourrit, the... — More…
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Opera, February 2023, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Shortlisted - Opera
3 CDs + Book
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Hérold: Le Pré Aux Clercs
Marie-Ève Munger, Marie Lenormand, Jeanne Crousaud, Michael Spyres, Éric Huchet & Christian Helmer
Coro e Orquestra Gulbenkian, Paul McChreesh
Hérold’s effervescent music is performed with tremendous charm by Paul McCreesh and the Gulbenkian Orchestra...Munger [is] in exquisite form, coloratura cascading like champagne...Ensembles... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2017, Editor's Choice
2 CDs + Book
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Salieri: Les Danaides
Judith van Wanroij (Hypermnestre), Philippe Talbot (Lyncée), Tassis Christoyannis (Danaüs), Katia Velletaz (Plancippe) & Thomas Dolié (Pélagus / Officiers)
Les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles & Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
Les Talens Lyriques reveals the baleful splendours of Salieri's writing under Christophe Rousset. Judith van Wanroij's Hymnestre is fesity but in places could do with more power. Tassis Christoyannis's... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
Book + 2 CDs
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Gaspare Spontini: Olimpie
Karina Gauvin (Olimpie), Kate Aldrich (Statira), Mathias Vidal (Cassandre), Josef Wagner (Antigone), Philippe Souvage (Hermas), Patrick Bolleire (L'Hiérofante); Flemish Radio Choir & Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, Jérémie Rhorer
The trombones are much in evidence and the tam-tam has a field day, but Jérémie Rhorer keeps his excellent orchestra under control. The music for the soloists is well characterised…Karina Gauvin... — More…
2 CDs + Book
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Kreutzer, R: La Mort d'Abel
Katia Velletaz (Méala), Yumiko Tanimura (Tirsa), Jennifer Borghi (Ève), Sébastien Droy (Abel), Jean-Sébastien Bou (Caïn), Pierre-Yves Pruvot (Adam), Alain Buet (Anamalech)
Les Agrémens, Guy Van Waas
the fine performance of Guy van Waas and Les Agrémens reveals music of imaginative colours and profuse sentimentality that sometimes sounds like a stepping-stone between Haydn's Creation and... — More…
2 CDs
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Bach, J C: Amadis des Gaules
Philippe Do (Amadis), Katia Velletaz (Oriane), Pierre-Yves Pruvot (Arcalaüs), Hjördis Thébault (Arcabonne), Liliana Faraon (Urgande/Une Coryphée)
Solamente Naturali, Musica Florea, Didier Talpain
Didier Talpain directs his Czech-Slovak period orchestra with real dramatic flair, Bach's Gluckian ostinatos crackle and spit as one scene tumbles urgently into the next. The predominantly Francophone... — More…
2 CDs
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