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Saint-Saëns: Le Timbre d’argent Jodie Devos (Rosa), Tassis Christoyannis (Spiridion), Hélène Guilmette (Hélène), Edgaras Montvidas (Conrad), Yu Shao (Benedict),
Les Siècles, Accentus, François-Xavier Roth
The score is as elegantly upholstered as anything that Saint-Säens wrote...Fiametta is a danced role which leaves something of a vocal hole in the middle of the work – particularly since the... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
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Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Chœur de l’Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Kazuki Yamada
Here the principals are well up to its vocal and dramatic demands...Kate Aldrich's Déjanire is a great performance equalled in dramatic emphasis by Julien Dran's Hercule...The austere tragedy... — More…
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Offenbach: La Périchole RecommendedAude Extrémo (La Périchole), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Piquillo), Alexandre Duhamel (Don Andrès de Ribeira), Eric Huchet (Le comte de Panatellas), Marc Mauillon (Don Pedro de Hinoyosa)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Chœur de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux, Marc Minkowski
In the pit are Les Musiciens du Louvre – part of a growing and welcome trend towards giving operetta the benefits of historically informed practice. You can hear the results from the very first... — More…
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Record Review, 22nd June 2019, Record of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th June 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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Massenet: Ariane Amina Edris (Ariane), Kate Aldrich (Phèdre), Jean-François Borras (Thésée), Jean-Sébastien Bou (Pirithoüs), Julie Robard-Gendre (Perséphone), Munich Radio Orchestra, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Laurent Campellone
Campellone undoubtedly believes in Massenet ’s score, coaxing f ine playing from the Munich Radio Orchestra, particularly the woodwinds. It is unmistakably Massenet, replete with rich orchestral... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Winner - Premiere Recordings
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Young Talent of the Year (Amina Edris)
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André Messager: Passionnément Véronique Gens (Ketty Stevenson), Étienne Dupuis (Robert Perceval), Nicole Car (Julia), Eric Huchet (William Stevenson), Chantal Santon Jeffrey (Helene Le Barrois), Armando Noguera (Harris), Munchner Rundfunkorchester, Stefan Blunier
Messager’s score is a minor masterpiece. His gifts as an orchestrator are evident from the start...Stefan Blunier conducting the Munich Radio Orchestra has clearly lost his heart to Messager’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2021
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Opera, November 2021, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Opera
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Christoyannis, in what is in many ways a tour de force, is for the most part exceptional throughout. Just occasionally the recording itself captures a pulse in his upper registers when under... — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Male Singer of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Solo Vocal
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Offenbach: Le voyage dans la lune Violette Polchi (Caprice), Sheva Tehoval (Fantasia), Matthieu Lecroart (V'Lam), Pierre Derhet (Quipasseparla), Raphael Bremard (Microscope), Thibaud Desplantes (Cosmos), Marie Lenormand (Popotte), Christophe Poncet de Solages (Cactus), Ludivine Gombert (Flamma / Adja)
Choeur et Orchestre national...
Sheva Tehoval is a magnificent Fantasia, with sweet tone and a formidable coloratura...But it’s Offenbach’s score that earns the biggest hand. Who else can push a simple melody around the orchestra... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, Opera Choice
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Schallplattenkritik Quarterly Critics Choice, Autumn 2022, Opera
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Opera
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César Franck: Hulda Jennifer Holloway, Judith van Wanroij, François Rougier, Véronique Gens, Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Gergely Madaras
Jennifer Holloway is magnificent in the immense title-role here, if occasionally steely in tone, marvellously alert to the text...and superb in her delineation of Hulda’s transformation from... — More…
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International Opera Awards, 2023, Nomianted - Recording (Complete Opera)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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Reynaldo Hahn: L’île du rêve Hélène Guilmette, Artavazd Sargsyan, Chœur du Concert Spirituel, Cyrille Dubois (tenor), Anaïk Morel, Thomas Dolié, Ludivine Gombert
Munich Radio Orchestra, Hervé Niquet
Hahn is a precociously skilled orchestrator who elegantly sidesteps anything that might sound like ‘local’ colour...A successful song composer, he writes sympathetically for the voice. His cast... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2020
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Saint-Saëns: Phryné Florie Valiquette (Phryné), Cyrille Dubois (Nicias), Thomas Dolié (Dicéphile), Anais Constans (Lampito), Francois Rougier (Cynalopex), Partick Bolliere (Agoragine/Un Heraut), Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen Normandie, Choeur du Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet
Florie Valiquette is a winning Phryné, and Cyrille Dubois all that you could hope for in a French tenor as her beloved Nicias – their Act II duet deserves to be much better known. — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Opera
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