Orchestre National de Lyon
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Georges Bizet: Djamileh, Vasco de Gama, Cantates, Musique chorale, Mélodies & Musique pour piano
Mélissa Petit (soprano), Isabelle Druet (mezzo), Cyrille Dubois (tenor), Thomas Dolié (baritone), Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth, Orchestre national de Metz Grand Est, David Reiland et al
As always with Bru Zane, the production values are high, both in terms of the immaculate recorded sound and the beautifully illustrated accompanying book with its scholarly articles. It all... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2025, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Opera
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The French Romantic sensibility is clearly audible across this beautifully played selection: texture and atmosphere are everything, tension ebbs and flows. —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Symphonic Recording of the Year
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Special offer. Strauss: Don Quixote - Ibert: Le Chevalier errant
Amihai Grosz (viola), Jian Wang (cello)
Orchestre National de Lyon, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider
In the Strauss, the viola and cello duet prettily, with a real sense of courtly dialogue. The Ibert, which also takes Quixote as its muse, is full of atmosphere and filmic vibrancy. —
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Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 ‘Organ’
Vincent Warnier (organ)
Orchestre National de Lyon, Leonard Slatkin
Finding that mixture of suavity, nervous tension, self-confidence and grandiloquence that characterises so much of Saint-Saëns's music, Slatkin creates a performance of the Third Symphony which... —
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Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17, H 79
Marion Lebègue (mezzo-soprano), Julien Behr (tenor), Frédéric Caton (baritone)
Spirito, Chœurs et solistes de Lyon-Bernard Tétu, Orchestre National de Lyon, Leonard Slatkin
Slatkin displays again his characteristic commitment and an ability to sound at home in the repertoire…Several of this ‘dramatic symphony’s’ previous interpreters have shown awareness of the... —
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Special offer. Concertos: Pécou, Lazkano, Nan
Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Orchestre National de Lyon, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Orchestre National de Lille, Jonathan Stockhammer, Sylvain Cambreling, Emilia Hoving
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Ravel: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
Jennifer Gilbert (violin)
Orchestre National de Lyon, Leonard Slatkin
Slatkin draws a vivid sound from the Lyon players, with a wide range of dynamics and colours. No one could do more for the early Shéhérazade overture...Boléro too comes off well, with no accelerando... —
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Markl and his players acquit themselves admirably, and as one-stop shopping for some of Debussy's most engaging orchestral works it's hard to beat. —
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Debussy: The Complete Works
Artists include Martha Argerich, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Samson François, Renaud Capuçon, Natalie Dessay, André Cluytens, François-Xavier Roth, Jean Martinon, Michel Plasson, Kent Nagano and Carlo Maria Giulini
Exhaustive, the sum of the crème de la crème of the discography...THE Debussy box set to have…No richer panorama exists for the melodies (the complete EMI recordings alongside never-before-released... —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2018, Winner - Archive
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