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Special offer. Saint-Saëns: Le Timbre d’argent
Jodie Devos (Rosa), Tassis Christoyannis (Spiridion), Hélène Guilmette (Hélène), Edgaras Montvidas (Conrad), Yu Shao (Benedict),
Les Siècles, Accentus, François-Xavier Roth
The score is as elegantly upholstered as anything that Saint-Säens wrote...Fiametta is a danced role which leaves something of a vocal hole in the middle of the work – particularly since the... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Bizet: Carmen
Deepa Johnny (Carmen), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Don José), Nicolas Courjal (Escamillo), Iulia Maria Dan (Micaëla)
Orchestre de l'opéra de Rouen Normandie, Chœur Accentus, Chœur d’enfants de la Maîtrise du Conservatoire de Rouen, Ben Glassberg, Romain Gilbert
If nothing else, this video reminds us that opera in the 19th century was a visual spectacle, and that spectacle wasn’t some sort of vulgar concession to the demands of idle entertainment. —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2025, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Opera Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Complete Recording
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Special offer. Schubert: Nacht & Träume
RecommendedLieder with orchestra
Wiebke Lehmkuhl (contralto), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (tenor)
Insula orchestra & accentus, Laurence Equilbey
A surprisingly coherent musical experience. The revelation is the French composer Franck Krawczyk (b.1969) whose bubbling arrangement of An Sylvia had me smiling for days…Wiebke Lehmkuhl and... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th December 2017
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Special offer. Mozart: La clemenza di Tito
Nicky Spence (Tito), Simona Šaturová (Vitellia), Anna Stéphany (Sesto), Chiara Skerath (Servilia), Antoinette Dennefeld (Annio), David Steffens (Publio)
Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie, Ben Glassberg
The title-role is difficult to cast, but Nicky Spence has the range, the fluency and the technique to bring off all the vocal challenges while equally entering fully into the character’s plight...With... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2022, Opera Choice
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Special offer. Fauré - Requiem
Sandrine Piau (soprano) & Stéphane Degout (baritone)
Accentus & Members of Orchestre National de France, Laurence Equilbey
Can there may be a more profoundly beautiful recording of Fauré's Requiem out there? We defy any sensitive soul not to be transported into a state of near rapture by the unspeakably delicious... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Choral
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New. Opéra Comique Collection, Vol. 2
Carmen - Hamlet - Fortunio - La nonne sanglante -Lakmé
Opéra Comique, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Louis Langrée, Laurence Equilbey, Raphaël Pichon
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Special offer. Gounod: Saint François d'Assise
Florian Sempey & Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Karine Deshayes (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestre de Chambre de Paris & Accentus, Laurence Equilbey
What a find it is – the melodic material is superbly memorable and opulent (almost disconcertingly so for a work depicting an ascetic!), the orchestration rich and autumnal. I’ve waxed lyrical... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2018
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Special offer. Mozart: Vesperae solennes de confessore & Coronation Mass
RecommendedSandrine Piau (soprano), Renata Pokupić (alto), Benjamin Bruns (tenor) & Andreas Wolf (bass)
Accentus & Insula Orchestra, Laurence Equilbey
The Insula Orchestra show themselves to be fleet and colourful (with superb oboe from Jean-Marc Philippe). The Accentus choir demonstrate once more their unity and dynamism but suffer a little... —
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Building A Library, May 2025, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Werner Gura (tenor), Christopher Purves (bass-baritone)
Accentus Chamber Choir, Insula Orchestra, Laurence Equilbey
Balance generally...is superbly managed by the experienced conductor, Laurence Equilbey...Her soloists, too, match well as a quartet...for all Equilbey's avoidance of theatricality it's the... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Choral & Song Choice
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Mozart: Betulia liberata
Sandrine Piau (Amital), Amanda Forsythe (Cabri/Carmi), Teresa Iervolino (Giuditta), Pablo Bernsch (Ozia), Nahuel Di Pierro (Achior), Accentus, Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
[Bemsch's] brilliant tenor voice never fails to light up the landscape...Another very impressive vocal presence is the contralto Teresa Iervolino ( Judith), who is vividly dramatic in the recitative... —
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Record Review, 17th October 2020, Record of the Week
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