Summer Opera Sale - Up to 40% off
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Summer Opera Sale - Up to 40% off, Gounod (composer)
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Gounod: Faust Recommended1859 version
Benjamin Bernheim (Faust), Véronique Gens (Marguerite), Andrew Foster-Williams (Méphistophélès), Jean-Sébastien Bou (Valentin), Juliette Mars (Siebel), Ingrid Perruche (Marthe), Anas Séguin (Wagner/Un mendiant)
Les Talens Lyriques, Flemish Radio Choir, Christophe Rousset
Tenor Benjamin Bernheim is a superb Faust, with a bright and lovely lyric voice that is also comfortable in the lower tessitura of act I. As Marguerite, soprano Véronique Gens is an ideal romantic... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2019, Editor's Choice
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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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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Opera
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International Opera Awards, 2020, Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year (Gens)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Winner - Opera (19th-century)
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Opera
3 CDs + Book
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Gounod: La Colombe RecommendedErin Morley (Sylvie), Javier Camarena (Horace), Michèle Losier (Mazet), Laurent Naouri (Maître Jean)
Hallé Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder
One hero of this admirable Opera Rara release is Mark Elder, utterly committed to Gounod's score and coaxing elegant music-making from the Hallé. There's also some properly idiomatic singing,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th October 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
2 CDs
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Gounod: Le tribut de Zamora Judith van Wanroij (Xaima), Jennifer Holloway (Hermosa), Edgaras Montvidas (Manoel), Tassis Christoyannis (Ben-Said), Boris Pinkhasovich (Handjar), Juliette Mars (Iglésia)
Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Hervé Niquet
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Diapason d’Or, January 2019, Découverte
CD + Book
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Gounod: Cantates et Musique Sacrée Collection Prix de Rome Vol. 6
Brussels Philharmonic, Flemish Radio Choir, Hervé Niquet
The choral singing has wonderful richness, clarity and fervour, above all in the Messe vocale, which is breathtaking. A tremendous set, it adds immeasurably to our understanding of Gounod’s... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2018
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Choral
2 CDs + book
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Gounod: Cinq-Mars Mathias Vidal (Le Marquis de Cinq-Mars), Véronique Gens (La Princesse Marie de Gonzague), Tassis Christoyannis (Le Conseiller de Thou), Andrew Foster-Williams (Le Père Joseph), André Heyboer (Le Vicomte de Fontrailles), Norma Nahoun (Marion Delorme), Marie Lenormand (Ninon de L’Enclos, Un Berger),...
Extremely well performed by Ulf Schirmer and his Bavarian forces…Mathias Vidal has an ideal voice for this repertoire: slightly reedy, with a pleasing fast vibrato. Véronique Gens finds all... — More…
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Gounod: Faust RecommendedRoger Bourdin, Georges Nore, Roger Rico
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, Thomas Beecham
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Building a Library, April 2005, Historic Choice
2 CDs
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Gounod: La nonne sanglante (The Bloody Nun) Marco Vassalli, Genadijus Bergorulko, Yoonki Baek, Natalia Atmanchuk, Iris Marie Kotzian & Frank Färber
Eva Schneidereit Chor und Herren-Extrachor des Theaters Osnabrueck & Osnabruecker Symphonieorchester, Hermann Baeumer
Gounod's writing for the voice, even at this early stage, is highly characteristic, as are many of the melodies...[Baek] is firm and his well defined, high-lying voice seems suited to the French... — More…
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Opera, February 2011, Recording of the Month
2 CDs
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Héroïque: French Opera Arias RecommendedBryan Hymel (tenor)
PKF – Prague Philharmonia, Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno, Emmanuel Villaume
The leading tenor roles of this tradition require facility and strength at the top of the voice plus power and flexibility lower down - all of which Hymel supplies; in fact, he is clearly optimum... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd February 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Opera, April 2015, Recording of the Month
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Gounod: Faust Piotr Beczala (Faust), Soile Isokoski (Marguerite), Kwangchul Youn (Mephistopheles), Adrian Eröd (Valentin), Michaela Selinger (Siebel), Hans Peter Kammerer (Wagner) & Zoryana Kushpler (Marthe)
Chorus & Orchestra of the Wiener Staatsoper, Bertrand de Billy
a reading of exceptional vigour and dignity, banishing genteel cobwebs and traditional cuts...Isokoski's characteristically pure tones make her a winsomely vulnerable heroine...[Beczala] shows... — More…
3 CDs
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Gounod: Faust Giuliano Romagnoli (Faust), Gemma Bosini (Margherita), Fernando Autori (Mefistofele), Gilda Timitz (Siebel), Napoleone Limonta (Wagner), Adolfo Pacini (Valentino) & Nelda Garrone (Marta)
La Scala Milan Chorus & Orchestra, Carlo Sabajno
2 CDs
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