Munich Radio Orchestra
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Offenbach Colorature
RecommendedJodie Devos (soprano)
Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Laurent Campellone
This is a marriage made in musical heaven with the young Dutch soprano Jodie Devos reminding us just how gifted Jacques Offenbach was as a composer…She’s a gravity-defying coloratura soprano... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2019, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Recital
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal
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Special offer. 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... —
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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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Special offer. Golden Age
RecommendedErin Morley (soprano), Lawrence Brownlee (tenor), Munich Radio Orchestra, Ivan Repušić
Both singers are completely unfazed by the technical challenges made by the composers involved and are equally fully signed up to the stylistic demands involved; words are perfectly articulated... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2025, Opera Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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The New York Times, Best Classical Music Albums of 2025
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Vasks: Musica dolorosa, Musica serena, Musica Appassionata & Klātbūtne
Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ivan Repušić
Three of Vasks’s cycle of four ‘musicae’ for string orchestra are given radiant performances...Each work has a different emotional impetus but all f low with an immediate, searing lyricism from... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Contemporary
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Composer of the Year
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Special offer. Ullmann: Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Op. 49b
Live at Prinzregenten Theater, Munich 10/10/2021
Lars Woldt (bass), Christel Loetzsch (mezzo-soprano), Johannes Chum (tenor), Tareq Nazmi (bass), Adrian Eröd (baritone), Juliana Zara (soprano), Munich Radio Orchestra, Patrick Hahn
Members of the Munich Radio Orchestra are joined by a stellar cast; Johannes Chum contributes a Weill-inspired Harlequin; Tareq Nazim a dramatic Death. Lars Woldt is an ominous Loudspeaker (‘hallo,... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Opera
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year (Zara)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Puccini: I Canti - Orchestral Songs & Works
RecommendedCharles Castronovo (tenor), Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ivan Repušić
The most worthwhile element of this collection is the vocalism of American Charles Castronovo, whose tonal qualities are as Italianate as his name and who is in easy command of his appealing... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th January 2024
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Solo Vocal Recording of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Special offer. 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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, 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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Gens is in fine voice – indeed, she seems to be in her prime. Her diction is as always immaculate and she produces a stream of elegant tone…and the required vocal heft to ride Massenet’s orchestra... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th June 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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International Opera Awards, 2018, Winner - Solo Recital
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Recital
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International Classical Music Awards, 2018, Winner - Vocal Recital
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Special offer. Puccini: Le Villi
Anita Hartig (Anna), Kang Wang (Roberto), Boris Pinkhasovich (Guglielgmo)
Munich Radio Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Chorus, Ivan Repušić
this polished recording features three principals whose performances are unostentatious yet musically pleasing. A velvet-voiced Anita Hartig characterises the role of Anna as winningly modest... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2025, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Opera
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Special offer. Operette
RecommendedWien - Berlin - Paris
Diana Damrau (soprano), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ernst Theis
Ever the intelligent artist Darmrau knows how to lighten the voice to create that distinctive soprano sound demanded by operetta – a light sparkling tone, spiralling coloratura and the story... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2024, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th December 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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