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On this occasion the limelight is stolen from Schoenberg by Zemlinsky...This music requires little excuse to become overheated, and it is much to the Arod’s credit that they resist the temptation... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2019, Editor's Choice
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Renaud Capuçon plays Three Modern Concertos
World Premiere performances & recordings
Renaud Capuçon (violin)
Wiener Symphoniker, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris, Philippe Jordan, Myung-Whun Chung
The more exciting music is often in the orchestra, but it’s a tribute to Capuçon’s skills that, like both of the other works it is completely under his skin — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Contemporary
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2017, Winner - Musique Contemporaine
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Joyce DiDonato: Diva, Divo
RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (mezzo)
Orchestre et Choeur de L'Opéra National De Lyon, Kazushi Ono
Proof of DiDonato's consummate musicianship is everywhere here...For sheer beauty of tone, legato that defies gravity and singing that restores your faith in human nature, listen last of all... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Recital
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2011, Opera Choice
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Grammy Awards, 54th Awards (2011), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Opera, June 2011, Recording of the Month
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Offenbach & Gulda: Cello Concertos
RecommendedEdgar Moreau (cello)
Orchestra Les Forces Majeures, Raphaël Merlin
Moreau is evidently a cellist of exceptional gifts with a vibrant directness of delivery, absolute security of tone and intonation in all registers and a concentrated intentness in his playing... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2019
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Concerto
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Britten: The Rape of Lucretia
Angelika Kirchschlager (Lucretia), Peter Coleman-Wright (Tarquinius), Ian Bostridge (Male Chorus), Susan Gritton (Female Chorus), Christopher Purves (Collatinus), Benjamin Russell (Junius), Claire Booth (Lucia), Hilary Summers (Bianca)
Aldeburgh Festival Ensemble, Oliver Knussen
Without hurrying, Knussen conducts a tight, vivid account, surpassing Britten's own...Ian Bostridge and Susan Gritton as Male and Female Chorus project their rhetorical commentaries with exemplary... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Opera Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Opera
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Britten: The Turn of the Screw
RecommendedIan Bostridge, Joan Rodgers, Julian Leang, Caroline Wise, Jane Henschel, Vivian Tierney
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Harding
This performance captures the sense of dislocation essential to this chilling ghost story. — More…
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Building a Library, November 2013, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2002, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2003, Winner - Opera
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Rossini - Colbran, the Muse
RecommendedOpera arias
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Lawrence Brownlee (tenor)
Orchestra dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Edoardo Muller
This is an artist who moves between registers with grace and skill, whose legato is seamless and whose tone is pearly. Indeed so creamy in 'D'amor al dolce impero', also from Armida, that you... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2009, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Recital
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Opera, February 2010, Recording of the Month
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Véronique Gens: Tragediennes 1 (French Operatic Tragedies)
Véronique Gens (soprano)
Ensemble les Talens Lyrique, Christophe Rousset
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2006, Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2006, Editor's Choice
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Like all the finest recordings of Vivaldi's sublime hymn...Jaroussky strikes a contoured balance between poetic tenderness in the narrative, emotional expressiveness in the descriptions of Mary's... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Ravel - Sonatas & Trios
RecommendedRenaud Capuçon (violin), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Frank Braley (piano)
Renaud Capuçon and Frank Braley get away from the rather uptight image we have of Ravel to compelling effect — More…
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Building a Library, September 2006, First Choice
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Building a Library, December 2009, First Choice
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