Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
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Special offer. Verdi - Un Ballo in Maschera
Freddie de Tommaso (Riccardo), Saioa Hernández (Amelia), Lester Lynch (Renato), Elisabeth Kulman (Ulrica), Annika Gerhards (Oscar)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Marek Janowski
De Tommaso turns out to be the real deal, singing with a confidence and ease that seem astonishing for a singer who was only 28 at the time of the recording, His is a real *spinto* tenor: bright... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2023, Opera Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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Kaleidoscope
RecommendedFatma Said (soprano), Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Sascha Goetzel
Said vaults effortlessly across stylistic boundaries, often via dazzling arrangements by her collaborator Tim Allhoff. And that Whitney Houston track? Even diehard sceptics will be moved by... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd September 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year & Solo Vocal
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Special offer. Saint-Saëns: L'Ancêtre
RecommendedJennifer Holloway (Nunciata), Gaëlle Arquez (Vanina), Hélène Carpentier (Margarita), Julien Henric (Tébaldo), Michael Arivony (Raphaël), Matthieu Lécroart (Bursica)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Philharmonic Chorus of Tokyo, Kazuki Yamada
the real stars are undoubtedly the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and their conductor Kazuki Yamada who invest a tremendous degree of verve and energy into the score and keep the drama... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2025, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Special offer. Berlioz, Ravel & Saint-Saëns
RecommendedMarie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto), Orchestre philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Kazuki Yamada
The Berlioz and Ravel cycles are natural partners, and Lemieux’s beguiling performance sets a formidable benchmark...Kazuki Yamada ensures that the Monte-Carlo players support every nuance,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Britten: Les Illuminations and other works
Julie Roset (soprano), Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Lawrence Foster
the soprano voice brings a special clarity to this dazzling music [Les Illuminations] and this is one of the finest performances of its kind I've ever heard: it conjures the young Rimbaud's... —
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Special offer. Fantasies, Rhapsodies and Daydreams
Arabella Steinbacher (violin)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Lawrence Foster
This recital is something of a triumph for violinist Arabella Steinbacher. [Waxman’s Carmen Fantasy] is finger-cripplingly difficult, and…Steinbacher makes it sound like a neat-masterpiece…saving... —
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Special 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... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Premiere Recordings
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Enescu: Romanian Rhapsodies, Poème roumain & Orchestral Suites
Franco Maggio-Ormezowski (cello)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Lawrence Foster
This lively companion-set to the multi-layered symphonies (reviewed in July) balances the Romaniana for which Enescu was famous with a very individual neo-classicism. Drily-recorded but dedicated... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2005, Re-issue of the Month
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The intelligently constructed programme is the most intriguing the pair have produced...Aside from the occasional woolly texture, support from Kreizberg's Monte Carlo Philharmonic is superlative...This... —
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Montalbetti: Orchestral Pictures
Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Svetlin Roussev (violin), Natalie Chee (violinn), Liza Kerob (violin)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Jonathan Nott, Duncan Ward, Kazuki Yamada
It must be said that the performances are such as any composer would wish for, and that the sound recording brings Montalbetti’s tapestries vividly to life. —
