Erato
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This acute sense of emotional timing distinguishes the Ébènes from many of their contemporary rivals. They present Beethoven unburdened by the weight of history or hindsight, leaving the quartets... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, November 2019, Nouveauté
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Beethoven: Symphonies, Overtures & Piano Concertos
RecommendedMelvyn Tan (piano)
London Classical Players, Roger Norrington
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Gramophone Awards, 1987, Winner - Period performance
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Building a Library, January 2020, Also Recommended
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Building a Library, December 2022, Also Recommended - Beethoven 9
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Building A Library, October 2023, Recommended Period Instrument Recording
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Songplay
RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (mezzo), Steve Barnett (percussion), Jimmy Madison (drums), Craig Terry (piano/harpsichord), Chuck Israels (double bass), Charlie Porter (trumpet/flugelhorn), Lautaro Greco (bandonéon)
The real twist here is that DiDonato retains the ‘formality’ of her operatic sound and delivery while attempting to apply a jazzer’s instincts. So her singerly embellishments rub shoulders with... — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Female Singer of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Winner - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019)
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Recommended(Limited Edition casebound deluxe)
Philippe Jaroussky (Orfeo), Amanda Forsythe (Euridice), Emőke Baráth (Amore)
Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera & I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis
Jaroussky manages the edition’s higher keys well enough (Vienna’s Orfeo was a castrato alto, Naples’s a soprano) and sings sweetly so long as forceful declamation isn’t required. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th May 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Schubert: Nacht & Träume
RecommendedLieder with orchestra
Wiebke Lehmkuhl (contralto), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (tenor)
Insula orchestra & accentus, Laurence Equilbey
A surprisingly coherent musical experience. The revelation is the French composer Franck Krawczyk (b.1969) whose bubbling arrangement of An Sylvia had me smiling for days…Wiebke Lehmkuhl and... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th December 2017
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This eclectic, if not eccentric song recital by the musically promiscuous French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky should not work. That it does, and so convincingly, is down to the fastidious... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th October 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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The Tudor Queens
RecommendedDiana Damrau (soprano), Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Damrau, luminous of voice, is surely the perfect exponent of this repertoire: adept at surmounting the music’s technical challenges in its dramatic moments, yet equally capable of exhibiting... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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My Christmas
RecommendedDiana Damrau (soprano), Matthias Höfs (trumpet), NDR Radiophilharmonie, Knabenchor Hanover, Richard Whilds, Riccardo Minasi
Damrau’s two-disc My Christmas ticks some of the same boxes as the legendary Elisabeth Schwarzkopf’s Christmas Album, though Damrau seems more naturally at home in the seasonal idiom...Opinions... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd December 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year
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Beethoven: Choral Fantasy & Triple Concerto
Alexandra Conunova (violin), Natalie Clein (cello) & David Kadouch (piano), Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Sandrine Piau (soprano), Anaïck Morel (mezzo), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (tenor) & Florian Sempey (bass)
Insula orchestra, Accentus, Laurence Equilbey
Awards:
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year (Chamayou)
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Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
RecommendedNatalie Dessay (Marie), Juan Diego Flórez (Tonio), Felicity Palmer (La Marquise de Birkenfeld), Alessandro Corbelli (Sulpice), Donald Maxwell (Hortensius), Dawn French (La Duchesse de Crackentorp)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Bruno Campanella
Laurent Pelly's production of Donizetti's opéra comique was one of the highlights of the Royal Opera's 2006-7 season, and viewing this well-produced DVD of the show it's perfectly obvious why.... — More…
Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - DVD
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2008, DVD Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, DVD of the Year
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