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Handel: Faramondo
Max Emanuel Cencic (Faramondo), Philippe Jaroussky (Adolfo), Sophie Karthäuser (Clotilde), Marina de Liso (Rosimonda), Xavier Sabata (Gernando), Terry Wey (Childerico), In-Sung Sin (Gustavo), Fulvio Bettini (Teobaldo)
Choeur de la Radio Suisse, Lugano & I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis
…overall a decent account is given of this worthwhile rarity. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2009, Editor's Choice
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Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie
RecommendedMark Padmore, Anne-Marie Panzarella, Lorraine Hunt, Laurent Naouri & Eirian James
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
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Gramophone Awards, 1997, Winner - Early Opera
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Busoni: Doktor Faust
RecommendedDietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich Henschel, Markus Hollop, Kim Begley, Torsten Kerl & Eva Jenis
Choeur et Orchestre de l'Opera de Lyon, Kent Nagano
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Grammy Awards, 43rd Awards (2000), Best Opera Recording
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Rameau: Zoroastre
Mark Padmore, Nathan Berg, Gaëlle Méchaly, Anna-Maria Panzarella, Matthieu Lécroart, François Bazola, Éric Martin Bonnet, Stéphanie Révidat
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
To describe Zoroastre as one of Rameau's most uncompromising music-dramas may seem strange when you consider that when it was revived in 1756, seven years after its premiere had met a rather... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2003, Editor's Choice
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Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91
Galina Vishnevskaya (Natasha Rostova), Nicolai Gedda (Anatol Kuragin), Lajos Miller (Prince Andrei Bolkonsky), Dimiter Petkov (Count Ilya Rostov), Stefania Toczyska (Helena Bezukhova), Wieslaw Ochman (Count Pytor Bezukhov), Mira Zakai (Princess Maria Bolkonsky), Eduard Tumagian (Napoleon Bonaparte)
Choeurs...
A virtue of this recording is that the work is given complete...all this material, diverse in style as it is, adds up in performance to an impressive whole. To no small degree this is thanks... — More…
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Purcell, Handel & Haydn - Odes to St Cecilia
RecommendedTaverner Consort & Players, Choir Of King's College, Cambridge & English Chamber Orchestra, Chœurs et orchestre de la Fondation Gulbekian, Andrew Parrott, Philip Ledger, Michel Corboz
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Building a Library, November 2014, First Choice
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Britten: Billy Budd
RecommendedNathan Gunn (Billy), Ian Bostridge (Captain Vere), Gidon Saks (Claggart), Neal Davies (Redburn), Jonathan Lemalu (Flint), Matthew Rose (Ratcliffe), Andrew Kennedy (Novice), Matthew Best (Dansker), Roderick Williams (Novice's Friend)
London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Daniel Harding
…this is a good, often exciting performance, but Hickox and especially Britten are hard acts to follow. — More…
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Grammy Awards, 52nd Awards (2009), Best Opera Recording
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I find it hard to decide which I enjoyed more: the performances of the three works or the DVD providing background information about the players and their attitude to their task. — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music Recording of the Year
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Ravel: Piano Concertos & De Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Orchestre National de France, Louis Langrée
There is much to admire here, not least the Orchestre National de France, which is on superlative form under Louis Langrée...Tharaud is the star of the show, though, and something special might... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto
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Honegger & Constant: Napoléon (Bande originale du film d'Abel Gance)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Marius Constant
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