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Natalie Dessay - Italian Opera Arias (Standard Version)
Natalie Dessay (Soprano), Sascha Reckert (glass harmonica), Karine Deshayes (Anna), Franck Ferrari (Enrico), Matthew Rose (Raimondo) & Wolfgang Klose (Normanno), Franck Ferrari (Riccardo) & Matthew Rose (Giorgio)
Concerto Köln & Europäischer Kammerchor, Evelino Pidò
Violetta's aria at the end of Act I of La traviata demands the impossible. A lyric voice for 'Ah forse è lui' and then weight and depth and cascading coloratura in 'Sempre libera'. Natalie... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2008, Opera Choice
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Dreisig knows how much Mozart’s recitatives tell us about his characters...She has splendid theatrical partners in Louis Langrée and the Basel Chamber Orchestra, who field a stylish basset clarinet... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2022
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Piotr Anderszewski at Carnegie Hall
Recording Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall, New York City, 3.XII.2008
Piotr Anderszewski (piano)
Piotr Anderszewski employs a small but incisive tone in the Bach Sinfonia, as though he is taking us into his confidence; the Allemande is sweet and unassuming, the Courante has warmth, the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2009, Editor's Choice
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The Artemis Quartet plays the opening of Op. 135 with rich warmth, classical poise, and just the right kind of reverence...They don’t hurl themselves at the second movement, instead allowing... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2011, Chamber Choice
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Bellini: La Sonnambula
Natalie Dessay (Amina), Jaël Azzaretti (Lisa), Francesco Meli (Elvino), Carlo Colombara (Rodolfo), Sara Mingardo (Teresa), Gordon Gietz (Notaro), Paul Gay (Alessio)
Chœur & Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon, Evelino Pidò
Evelino Pidò conducts magnificently. Quite simply, Natalie Dessay is the most accomplished and the most affecting Amina on record since Callas. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Opera Finalist
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Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D667 'The Trout', etc.
Renaud Capuçon (violin), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Gérard Caussé (viola), Aloïs Posch (double bass) & Frank Braley (piano)
A memorable account of the Trout Quintet. This group may not project the warmth and bonhomie of the famous Curzon/Boskovsky recording, nor does it have the searching quality of the performance... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2005, Editor's Choice
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J.C. Bach - La Dolce Fiamma (Deluxe)
Forgotten castrato arias
Philippe Jaroussky
Le Cercle De L'Harmonie, Jérémie Rhorer
You can't help... but be seduced by the passion and range of Jaroussky's singing, which embraces everything from perfect coloratura to rapt introversion. — More…
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2010, Winner - Musique Baroque Vocale
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[the divertmenti are] normally done with full orchestral forces, but they work perfectly well as string quartets - especially when performed as immaculately as here, with everything honed to... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2011, Editor's Choice
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Diana Damrau - Donna
Mozart opera and concert arias
Diana Damrau (soprano)
Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, Jérémie Rhorer
Diana Damrau's intelligently planned and superbly executed recital… I can’t remember when I last enjoyed a Mozart recital of this kind so much. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2009, Editor's Choice
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Il tenero momento
Mozart & Gluck Arias
Susan Graham
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Harry Bicket
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2001, Disc of the Month
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