Harmonia Mundi - up to 30% off
Until 6th November, we are offering up to 30% off Harmonia Mundi titles on CD, SACD, Vinyl, DVD, Blu-Ray & downloads.
Harmonia Mundi - up to 30% off, Ensemble Pygmalion (early music ensemble)
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Special offer. JS Bach: Matthäus-Passion
RecommendedJulian Prégardien (Evangelist), Stéphane Degout (Christus), Sabine Devieilhe & Hana Blažiková (sopranos), Lucile Richardot (mezzo), Tim Mead (countertenor), Reinoud Van Mechelen & Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (tenors), Christian Immler (bass-baritone)
Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
The choirs are razor-sharp in their ensemble, and if they seem initially soft-grained (in keeping with Pichon’s essentially intimate approach), their incisiveness eventually locates real venom... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2022, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th April 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Choral
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Building a Library, October 2022, Also Recommended
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
3 CDs
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This is an attractive addition to the vast array of recordings of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers collection. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st September 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Winner - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Choral
2 CDs
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[Degout] possesses the rare facility to mix raw muscle with the subtlest caresses…In the infernal symphonies that pepper Enfers, the band attacks the score with an almost fiendish ferocity…Don’t... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2018, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 24th February 2018, Recording of the Week
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Vocal
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International Opera Awards, 2019, Winner - Recital Album
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Special offer. Mein Traum
RecommendedSchubert, Weber, Schumann
Stéphane Degout (baritone), Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Degout is convincing throughout, his expressive range spanning both ferocity and vulnerability...The real stars, though, are the period orchestra Pygmalion. The instrumental colours glow and... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Original price ($20.25) Reduced price $16.60Downloads
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Coming soon. Mozart: Requiem
Chadi Lazreq (treble), Ying Fang (soprano), Beth Taylor (mezzo), Laurence Kilsby (tenor), Alex Rosen (bass)
Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
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Special offer. Libertà!
RecommendedMozart & The Opera
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano), Siobhan Stagg (soprano), Serena Malfi (mezzo), Linard Vrielink (tenor), John Chest (baritone), Nahuel di Pierro (bass-baritone)
Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Pichon’s approach is ingenious…Sabine Devieilhe is the show’s star. Her distinctive soprano excels not only in the fiery passage work of ‘Da Schlagt’ (from Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor) but... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal International Classical Music Awards 2019 Nominee - Vocal
2 CDs
Original price ($16.00) Reduced price $12.80Downloads
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Coming soon. Mozart: Requiem
Chadi Lazreq (treble), Ying Fang (soprano), Beth Taylor (mezzo), Laurence Kilsby (tenor), Alex Rosen (bass)
Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
2 Vinyl Records
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Pichon favours brisk tempos and draws lively and crisply articulated singing from his vocal ensemble. Textures are luminous and transparent, though just occasionally I found phrases a shade... — More…
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Winner - Choral
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Special offer. Rhinemaidens
Bernarda Fink (mezzo) * Ständchen, Anneke Scott, Joseph Walters, Olivier Picon, Chris Larkin (horns)
Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
The vocal ensemble Pygmalion, resident at the Opera de Bordeaux, are suitably seductive sirens – and even Bernarda Fink makes a cameo appearance in Schubert’s D920 Grillparzer Ständchen, her... — More…
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Special offer. Rameau: Castor et Pollux
Colin Ainsworth (Castor), Florian Sempey (Pollux), Emmanuelle de Negri (Télaire), Clémentine Margaine (Phoebe), Christian Immler (Jupiter), Sabine Devieilhe (Cléone), Philippe Talbot (Mercury), Virgile Ancely (High Priest)
Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Emmanuelle de Negri delivers a plangent account of Télaïre's Act II lament 'Tristes apprêts'...Clémentine Margaine is a characterful Phébé with a powerful, coppery chest voice...Though the Underworld... — More…
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