Summer Opera Sale - Up to 40% off
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Summer Opera Sale - Up to 40% off, Saint-Saëns (composer)
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Offer, Saint-Saëns: Déjanire Kate Aldrich (Déjanire), Anaïs Constans (Iole), Julien Dran (Hercule), Jérôme Boutillier (Philoctète), Anna Dowsley (Phénice)
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…
2 CDs + Book
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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
2 CDs + Book
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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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Saint-Saëns: Proserpine Véronique Gens (Proserpine), Marie-Adeline Henry (Angiola), Frédéric Antoun (Sabatino), Andrew Foster-Williams (Squarocca), Jean Teitgen (Renzo)
Munchner Rundfunkorchester, Flemish Radio Choir, Ulf Schirmer
Frédéric Antoun is a bright, not exactly nuanced Sabatino and Jean Teitgen a warm and sympathetic Renzo, but the main prize goes to Véronique Gens for her utterly superb singing of the title... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2018, Winner - Opera
2 CDs + Book
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Saint-Saëns: La princesse jaune Mathias Vidal, Judith van Wanroij, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Leo Hussain
Judith van Wanroij is a forthright Lena with a gift for soft singing, though at full voice she sometimes sounds strained. Mathias Vidal as her Japaneseobsessed young man sounds every centimetre... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Premiere Recording
CD + Book
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Saint-Saëns: Ascanio Jean-Francois Lapointe, Bernard Richter, Eve-Maud Hubeaux, Chœur et Orchestre de la Haute École de Musique de Genève, Guillaume Tourniaire
It would be good to report that this is a lost masterpiece. It’s not, but it is a carefully crafted late version of the form that Meyerbeer had invented for Paris…Competent to a fault, Saint-Saëns... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2018, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, Opera Choice
3 CDs
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Saint-Saëns: Les Barbares Catherine Hunold (Floria), Julia Gertseva (Livie), Edgaras Montvidas (Marcomir), Jean Teitgen (Le Récitant / Scaurus), Shawn Mathey (Le Veilleur), Philippe Rouillon (Hildibrath / Le Grand Sacrificateur), Tigran Guiragosyan (Premier Habitant), Laurent Pouliaude (Second Habitant), Ghezlane Hanzazi...
The orchestra plays well and soprano Catherine Hunold as Floria, the chief vestal, sings with intelligence and radiant tone. — More…
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Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila Seokjong Baek (Samson), Elina Garanča (Dalila), Lukasz Golinski (High Priest of Dagon), Blaise Malaba (Abimelech)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano, Richard Jones
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Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila Placido Domingo (Samson), Waltraud Meier (Dalila), Alain Fondary (High Priest of Dagon), Jean-Philippe Courtis (Abimelech), Samuel Ramey (An Old Hebrew)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Opera Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung
When the big melody appears in Dalila's seduction aria, Chung's idiomatic conducting encourages a tender restraint, where others produce a full-throated roar. Meier may not have an ideally sensuous... — More…
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Saint-Saëns: La Princesse jaune (The Yellow Princess), etc. Maria Costanza Nocentini, Carlo Allemano
Swiss Italian Orchestra, Cantemus, Francis Travis
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