Etienne Bazola
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This is an attractive addition to the vast array of recordings of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers collection. —
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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 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Choral
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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... —
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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, Recording of the Year and Choral Award
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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
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JS Bach: Johannes-Passion
RecommendedJulian Prégardien (Evangelist), Huw Montague Rendall (Jesus), Ying Fang (soprano), Lucile Richardot (mezzo-soprano), Laurence Kilsby (tenor), Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Etienne Bazola (baritone), Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
You feel it in the gut like few other accounts, alongside unalloyed human observation and unyielding quality. Pygmalion have now served us with a trilogy of Bach masterpieces throwing down the... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th March 2026
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2026, Recording of the Month
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New. JS Bach: Johannes-Passion
RecommendedJulian Prégardien (Evangelist), Huw Montague Rendall (Jesus), Ying Fang (soprano), Lucile Richardot (mezzo-soprano), Laurence Kilsby (tenor), Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Etienne Bazola (baritone)
Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
You feel it in the gut like few other accounts, alongside unalloyed human observation and unyielding quality. Pygmalion have now served us with a trilogy of Bach masterpieces throwing down the... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th March 2026
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2026, Recording of the Month
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Don’t expect high drama and showy vocals: Charpentier’s idiom is subtly understated, and the Latin texts…were intended to edify rather than entertain. Sebastien Daucé judges their tone sensitively... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2019
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Diapason d’Or, June 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, Recording of the Month
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Vocal
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Special offer. André Cardinal Destouches: Issé
Etienne Bazola (baritone), Matthieu Lecroart, Mathias Vidal (tenor), Judith van Wanroij (soprano), Chantal Santon Jeffery (soprano), Thomas Dolié (baritone), Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas, Eugénie Lefebvre, Les chantres du centre de musique baroque de Versailles, Louis-Noël Bestion de, Ensemble...
I can have nothing but praise for the performance here. The ensemble and soloists are all first-rate, and their sensitive and lively interpretations of Destouches music are spot on. The instrumental... —
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Diapason d’Or, December 2019, Découverte
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Special offer. Visages d'Orphee: Cantates de Clerambault, Piroys & Rameau
Eugénie Lefebvre, Zachary Wilder, Étienne Bazola, Thibaut Roussel, Mathilde Vialle
Soprano Lefebvre knows the style backwards and forwards, with all of the intricate ornamentation in place, while both Wilder and Bazola do a wonderful and quite expressive job in their cantatas.... —
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Couperin & Lalande: Leçons de Ténèbres
Paco Garcia, Etienne Bazola (baritone), Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas
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Les Plaisirs du Louvre - Airs pour la Chambre de Louis XIII
Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé
The predominant mood is one of delicate wistfulness: this is not a musical world of aching suspensions and chromaticism. The singers of Ensemble Correspondances, led by the sopranos Caroline... —
