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Bellini: Norma
Live at the Metropolitan Opera, 2017
Sondra Radvanovsky (Norma), Joyce DiDonato (Adalgisa), Joseph Calleja (Pollione), Matthew Rose (Oroveso), Michelle Bradley (Clotilde), Adam Diegel (Flavio)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Carlo Rizzi, Sir David McVicar
Radvanovsky is the international Norma of choice at the moment and she sings ‘big’, lacking perhaps the legato that Bellini’s long-limbed melodies demand,. But Joyce DiDonato, making her debut... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Diapason d’Or, January 2019, Vidéo
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Purcell, Handel & Haydn - Odes to St Cecilia
RecommendedTaverner Consort & Players, Choir Of King's College, Cambridge & English Chamber Orchestra, Chœurs et orchestre de la Fondation Gulbekian, Andrew Parrott, Philip Ledger, Michel Corboz
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Building a Library, November 2014, First Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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these are fine, clear accounts. The Schubert may lack the dream-like quality Britten and Rostropovich find, but its Adagio is presented with long, elegantly spun phrases, due tenderness and... — More…
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The Freischütz Project
Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Max), Johanni Van Oostrum (Agathe), Chiara Skerath (Ännchen), Vladimir Baykov (Kaspar), Christian Immler (Eremit), Thorsten Grümbel (Kuno), Daniel Schmutzhard (Ottokar), Anas Séguin (Kilian), Insula orchestra, Accentus Choir, Laurence Equilbey
Played on original instruments by the Insula Orchestra, two centuries of varnish seem to have been dissolved away from Weber’s Romantic masterpiece, with the instrumentation coming up as bright... — More…
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[The Pleyel’s] sound melds satisfyingly with a small orchestra playing on gut strings and with period wind instruments. The opening chords of the Fourth Concerto usher in what feels almost like... — More…
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Alexandre Tharaud: Le Temps Dérobé
A film by Raphaëlle Aellig Régnier
Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Les Violons du Roy, Bernard Labadie
This engrossing film illustrates what a richly fulfilling life that of the international concert pianist can be - and also what a tough mental and physical grind it is...The bonus section of... — More…
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Still in his early twenties, Gautier Capuçon plays the cello with the control and wisdom of a much older musician. The lightness of his touch and the consistent clarity of his bow strokes are... — More…
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Mozart: Lucio Silla
Franco Fagioli (Cecilio), Olga Pudova (Giunia), Alessandro Liberatore (Lucio Silla), Chiara Skerath (Lucio Cinna), Ilse Eerens (Celia), Le Jeune Chœur de Paris, Insula orchestra, Laurence Equilbey
There are certainly strengths in Equilbey’s team – especially in Chiara Skerath’s lucid Cinna and Alessandro Liberatore’s trenchant Silla. The other members of the cast are less consistent,... — More…
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The sound is restricted for modern ears, but János Starker and his regular pianist György Sebök play as one, and bring flow, depth and tonal variety to these masterpieces. — More…
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