Piotr Beczala
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Special offer. Vincerò!
RecommendedPiotr Beczala (tenor), Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Marco Boemi
This is a big voice with a warm Italianate tone and a fitting sense of the legato required for this repertoire. Verismo sobbing is kept to a minimum. Beczala knows exactly how to build the drama... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th May 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2020, Recording of the Month
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Opera, July 2020, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Male Singer of the Year
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Special offer. Vincerò!
RecommendedPiotr Beczala (tenor), Marco Boemi, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana
This is a big voice with a warm Italianate tone and a fitting sense of the legato required for this repertoire. Verismo sobbing is kept to a minimum. Beczala knows exactly how to build the drama... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th May 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2020, Recording of the Month
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Opera, July 2020, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninoff - Romances
RecommendedPiotr Beczala (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano)
Many of the songs here make formidable technical demands on the pianist as well as the singer, and I mean absolutely no disrespect to Beczała when I say that Deutsch’s playing would be worth... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th August 2023
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Piotr Beczala: The French Collection
RecommendedPiotr Beczala (tenor), Diana Damrau (soprano)
Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Lyon, Alain Altinoglu
Crucially, his linguistic abilities are up to the challenge, and throughout the recital his French proves genuinely idiomatic. So does his appreciation of French style, with its important focus... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd February 2015
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, Opera Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Special offer. Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Piotr Beczala (Gustaf III), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Renato Ankarstrom), Krassimira Stoyanova (Amelia), Nadia Krasteva (Ulrica), Hila Fahima (Oscar), Wiener Staatsoper, Jesús López Cobos
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Christian Gerhaher (baritone), Piotr Beczala (tenor), Gerold Huber (piano)
Bereft of its orchestral colouring it surely presents a formidable challenge. Yet the plasticity of Gerhaher’s story telling is enhanced as, freed from breasting a large ensemble with exaggerated... —
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Verdi: Arias
Piotr Beczala (tenor), Ewa Podles (contralto), Mariusz Kwiecien (baritone)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukas Borowicz
The Polish tenor's move into a heavier repertoire than hitherto associated with him is amply vindicated in this celebratory CD...he retains the golden quality of his voice as he sizes up. The... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2013, Opera Choice
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A Concert for Ukraine
RecommendedVladyslav Buialskyi (baritone), Lise Davidsen (soprano), Elza van den Heever (soprano), Jamie Barton (mezzo-soprano), Piotr Beczala (tenor), Ryan Speedo Green (bassbaritonevocalist), Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
This is a moving record of the Metropolitan Opera’s concert in solidarity with Ukraine, back in March, when the war was in its early days. A stirring Ukrainian national anthem and Silvestrov’s... —
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Classical Compendium
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Music of Polish Soul | Songs By Moniuszko and Karlowicz
Piotr Beczala (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano)
Beczała is one of today’s most important operatic tenors, and it is gratifying to see that he can scale his style down to a more intimate level so as not to overwhelm these songs. This release... —
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Diapason d’Or, April 2020, Nouveauté
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The voice has body, especially in the upper middle register, and an exciting ring on top. —
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Opera, August 2008, Recording of the Month
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