Laura Claycomb
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Special offer. Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
Gregory Kunde (Cellini), Laura Claycomb (Teresa), Darren Jeffery (Balducci), Andrew Kennedy (Francesco), Isabelle Cals (Ascanio), John Relyea (Pope Clement VII), Peter Coleman-Wright (Fieramosca), Jacques Imbrailo (Pompeo)
London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
The combination of technology and the conductor's unimpaired élanmakes for glowing textures and shattering climaxes. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2008, Editor's Choice
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Mahler: Symphonies 1-9
Elena Mosuc (soprano - Symphony No. 2) & Zlata Bulycheva (mezzo - Symphony No. 2), Anna Larsson (contralto - Symphony No. 3), Laura Claycomb (soprano - Symphony No. 4), Viktoria Yastrebova, Ailish Tynan, Ludmila Dudinova (sopranos - Symphony No. 8), Lilli Paasikivi, Zlata Bulycheva (mezzo-sopranos...
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Ligeti: Le Grand Macabre
RecommendedSibylle Ehlert, Laura Claycomb, Charlotte Hellekant, Jard van Nes
Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen
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Building a Library, January 2018, Also Recommended
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Mahler: Symphony No. 4
RecommendedLaura Claycomb (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
pacing is almost always emotionally precise, and sonorities rounded and well-judged —
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Building a Library, May 2010, Featured
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Special offer. Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
Bruce Ford (Cellini), Laura Claycomb (Teresa), Franz Hawlata (Bass), Monica Groop (Ascanio), Christopher Maltman (Fieramosca), Ralf Lukas (Cardinal Salviati), Johannes Chum (Francesco), Reinhard Mayr (Bernadino), Ekkehard Wagner (Cabaretier), Matthias Hoffmann (Pompeo)
MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig,...
This recording…is ablaze. …Bruce Ford…can do both amorous and heroic, and blends well with Laura Claycomb's spirited Teresa. The outstanding characterisation is Monica Groop's Ascanio, a splendidly... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, Opera Choice
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Special offer. Arcadian Duets
RecommendedPaul Agnew, Brian Asawa, Laura Claycomb, Natalie Dessay, Véronique Gens, Juanita Lascarro, Marijana Mijanovic, Sara Mingardo, Anna Maria Panzarella, Patricia Petibon
Concert d'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haim
Handel-singing surely doesn't come much better than this. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2003, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Pacini: Alessandro nell’Indie
RecommendedBruce Ford (Alessandro), Jennifer Larmore (Poro), Laura Claycomb (Cleofide), Dean Robinson (Timagene), Mark Wilde (Gandarte)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, David Parry
Giovanni Pacini (1796-1867)… was a rival of (in turn) Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini and Verdi. Bruce Ford, Jennifer Larmore and Laura Claycomb bring their roles to a vivid life, and David Parry... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th November 2007
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Special offer. Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
Andrew Kennedy (Tom Rakewell), Laura Claycomb (Anne Trulove), William Shimell (Nick Shadow), Julianne Young (Mother Goose), Dagmar Peckova (Baba the Turk), Darren Jeffery (Trulove), Donal J. Byrne (Sellem)
Symphony Orchestra & Chorus of la Monnaie de Munt, Kazushi Ono (conductor) &...
It seems perverse to place it in Las Vegas in the 1950s, as Robert Lepage has done, with stetsons, risqué revue turns and black-and-white TV … Yet when we arrive at the graveyard scene, and... —
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Berlioz Odyssey
RecommendedThe Complete Sir Colin Davis Recordings
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
Davis was seemingly Berlioz’s disciple on earth, and this was the glorious late flowering of his love for the composer…Les Troyens crackles with a theatricality that outshines even the pioneering... —Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Best Collection
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Building A Library, November 2025, Recommended Recording (Harold en Italie)
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