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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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Handel: Acis and Galatea
RecommendedSophie Daneman (Galatea), Paul Agnew (Acis), Alan Ewing (Polyphemus), Francois Piolino (Tenor), David Le Monnier (Baritone), Andrew Sinclair (Tenor), Joseph Cornwell (Coridon) & Patricia Petibon (Damon)
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
William Christie's charming performance has fine instrumental playing. Paul Agnew's chesty Acis is a bit over-exaggerated, but Sophie Daneman's seductive Galatea and Alan Ewing's villainous... — More…
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Building a Library, March 2000, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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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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Saccharine moments are applied by Capuçon in soupcons rather than ladlefuls. The orchestra – deftly directed by Stéphane Denève – remains largely restrained throughout, providing a cloak around... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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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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Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder & Lieder
Diana Damrau (soprano), Helmut Deutsch (piano), Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
The German soprano’s virtues are well in evidence. There’s no doubting the integrity and intelligence of her performances, and there’s much to admire in her tidy, restrained way with the Four... — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Winner - Solo Vocal Recital (Lieder)
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Beethoven: String Quartets Op. 18, No. 1 & Op. 127
Beethoven/Artemis Quartet Volume 6
Artemis Quartet
they negotiate the tricky changes of tempo in the first movement of Op. 127 with great fluidity, provide an expressive yet poised view of the slow movement, and invest the Scherzo with suitably... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Vivaldi: Ercole sul Termodonte
RecommendedRolando Villazón (Ercole), Patrizia Ciofi (Orizia), Diana Damrau (Martesia), Joyce DiDonato (Ippolita), Vivica Genaux (Antiope), Topi Lehtipuu (Telemone), Philippe Jaroussky (Alceste), Romina Basso (Teseo)
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi
Joyce DiDonato is compelling as the passionate Hippolyta, her 'Onde chiare' especially beguiling. Vivica Genaux is splendid in the role of the warrior-queen Antiope, presenting her credentials... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th December 2010
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2011, Opera Choice
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Awards:
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Building a Library, April 2017, First Choice
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Oh, Boy!
Mozart & French Opera Arias
Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano)
Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Marc Minkowski
Boy - can she wear the trousers well! Her Cherubino in 'Voi che sapete' trembles with anxious desire. Only the stoniest hearted woman could resist this 'Non so piu', Crebassa by turns eager... — More…
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Opera, March 2017, Recording of the Month
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