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Bach - Harpsichord Concertos BWV1052-1059
RecommendedBob Van Asperen (harpsichord)
Melante Amsterdam
The great Bob van Asperen's single string band works wonders in the enchanting E and A major concertos but sounds a shade underwhelming in the mighty D minor. — More…
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Building a Library, October 2018, Also recommended
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Delibes: Lakmé
RecommendedMady Mesplé (Lakmé), Danielle Millet (Mallika), Charles Burles (Gérald), Roger Soyer (Nilakantha) & Jean-Christophe Benoit (Frédéric), Bernadette Antoine (Ellen), Monique Linval (Rose), Agnès Disney (Mrs Bentson) & Joseph Peyron (Hadji)
Chœurs et Orchestre du Théâtre National de l’Opéra-Comique,...
Alain Lombard conducts a properly Gallic Lakmé with Mady Mesplé as a winningly lyric heroine and for once the Bell Song is more than a showstopper. Then there’s Charles Burles’s Gerald – truly... — More…
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Building a Library, December 2019, Recommended Recording
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Joyce DiDonato - Furore (Handel Opera Arias)
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo)
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
DiDonato tackles this catalogue of emotional meltdowns with customary gusto. Sampled track-by-track, it's a thrilling operatic show case… — More…
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Opera, February 2009, Recording of the Month
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DiDonato’s performance certainly has its own character. A luminescent beauty of tone radiates through her singing, lighting up glimmers of hope and reflected memories, such as in “Frühlingstraum”,... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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[Jaroussky and Scheen] are well-matched, and the results are wonderfully rich and unexpectedly sensual…Instrumental numbers have all the group’s signature lightness of touch and depth of colour,... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Handel: Messiah
RecommendedLucy Crowe (soprano), Tim Mead (counter-tenor), Andrew Staples (tenor), Christopher Purves (baritone)
Le Concert d’Astrée Orchestre et Chœur, Emmanuelle Haïm
Haïm herself proves broadly sensitive to tempo...and balance has been excellently managed in what is a resonant acoustic. Le Concert d’Astrée's chorus numbers 20...they also keep light on their... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th December 2014
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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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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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Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmelites
RecommendedKent Nagano/Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon, Jean-Luc Viala/Choeurs de l'Opéra National de Lyon/Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon/Marco Zambelli/London Chorus/Kent Nagano/Richard Cooke, London Chorus (lead vocals), Jean-Luc Viala (tenor vocals), José Van Dam (baritone vocals), José Van...
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Gramophone Awards, 1993, Winner - Opera
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