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You don’t have to be a fan of string quartets or the World Cup to love the Quatuor Ebène’s laidback exploration of popular music written in or inspired by Brazil — More…
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It is perhaps no surprise that the various 18th-century works included find DiDonato on especially thrilling form...Yet DiDonato shines, too, in the more contemporary works…This is a highly... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2022, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th February 2022
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Solo Vocal Recording
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Voice & Ensemble
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Speech-like song tumbles out of tenor Alessandro Giangrande like coins from a sack; it’s glorious. But my favourite voice on the album is that of Zachary Wilder. — More…
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Fauré: Requiem & Cantique de Jean Racine
Matthias Goerne (baritone) & Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Eric Picard (cello)
Choeur de l'Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Jarvi
On this showing, Jaroussky might more accurately be described as a countermezzo, since his fine high Fs (top line of the treble stave) are delivered with no sense of strain. Most of the time,... — More…
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This is an excellent performance [of La mer], tautly focused, as is Krivine’s way, yet propulsive and flowing in its sense of the music’s organic evolution and internal logic. There’s real mystery... — More…
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Record Review, 26th May 2018, Recording of the Week
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Lalande: De Profundis & Grands Motets
The Choir of New College, Oxford, The King’s Consort, Les Pages et les Chantres de Versailles & La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, Edward Higginbottom & Olivier Shneebeli
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Diapason d’Or, April 2018, Réédition
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Steering a balanced course between imaginative vitality and warmth on one side and resigned melancholy on the other can be difficult, but Nicholas Angelich manages it with a kind of panache.... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2007, Instrumental Choice
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Record Review, December 2007, Critics Disc of the Year
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Building a Library, May 2003, First Choice
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Building a Library, October 2017, Also Recommended
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Tavener: The Protecting Veil & Thrinos and Britten: Solo Cello Suite No. 3
RecommendedSteven Isserlis (cello)
London Symphony Orchestra, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Contemporary
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Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites
RecommendedJose Van Dam (Le Marquis de la Force), Catherine Dubosc (Blanche de la Force), Jean-Luc Viala (Le Chevalier de la Force), Rita Gorr (La Prieure du Carmel), Rachel Yakar (La Nouvelle Prieure), Martine Dupuy (Mere Marie), Brigitte Fournier (Constance), Michel Senechal (L'Aumonier), Francois Le Roux...
It's… good to welcome back EMI's reissue of the 1992 Virgin Classic's Dialogues… superbly cast. Catherine Dubosc is Blanche par excellence, Rita Gorr graduates from Mere Marie in 1958 to the... — More…
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Building a Library, February 2006, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1993, Winner - Opera
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