Michel Sénéchal
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Puccini: La Bohème
RecommendedMirella Freni (Mimi), Luciano Pavarotti (Rodolfo), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Colline), Elizabeth Harwood (Musetta), Rolando Panerai (Marcello), Gianni Maffeo (Schaunard), Michel Sénéchal (Alcindoro/Benoit), Gernot Pietsch (Parpignol)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
Pavarotti's Rodolfo is perhaps the best thing he has ever done: not only the finest recorded account of the role since Björling's on the Beecham set, but adding the honeyed Italianate warmth... —
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Special offer. Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91
Galina Vishnevskaya (Natasha Rostova), Nicolai Gedda (Anatol Kuragin), Lajos Miller (Prince Andrei Bolkonsky), Dimiter Petkov (Count Ilya Rostov), Stefania Toczyska (Helena Bezukhova), Wieslaw Ochman (Count Pytor Bezukhov), Mira Zakai (Princess Maria Bolkonsky), Eduard Tumagian (Napoleon Bonaparte)
Choeurs...
A virtue of this recording is that the work is given complete...all this material, diverse in style as it is, adds up in performance to an impressive whole. To no small degree this is thanks... —
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Puccini: La Bohème
Mirella Freni (Mimi), Luciano Pavarotti (Rodolfo), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Colline), Elizabeth Harwood (Musetta), Rolando Panerai (Marcello), Gianni Maffeo (Schaunard), Michel Sénéchal (Alcindoro/Benoit), Gernot Pietsch (Parpignol), Hans-Dieter Appelt (Sergente dei doganieri), Hans-Dietrich Pohl (Un doganiere)
Berlin...
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Special offer. Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmelites
RecommendedKent Nagano/Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon, Jean-Luc Viala/Choeurs de l'Opéra National de Lyon/Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon/Marco Zambelli/London Chorus/Kent Nagano/Richard Cooke, London Chorus (lead vocals), Jean-Luc Viala (tenor vocals), José Van Dam (baritone vocals), José Van...
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Gramophone Awards, 1993, Winner - Opera
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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
RecommendedThomas Allen (Eugene Onegin), Mirella Freni (Tatyana), Anne Sofie von Otter (Olga), Neil Shicoff (Lensky), Rosemary Lang (Larina), Ruthild Engert (Filipyevna), Paata Burchuladze (Gremin)
Rundfunkchor Leipzig & Staatskapelle Dresden, James Levine
The new Onegin merits an almost unreserved recommendation […] the central performances by Mirella Freni and Thomas Allen are compellingly vivid. —
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Ravel – The Complete Edition
RecommendedJean-Yves Thibaudet (piano), François-Joël Thiollier (piano), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Ivo Pogorelich (piano), Pascal Rogé & Denise-Françoise Rogé (piano), Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky (pianos), Jacques Février (piano), Vladimir Ashkenazy & Vovka Ashkenazy (pianos), Cecilia Bartoli...
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Building a Library, June 2014, Recommendation available as collected edition
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Verdi: La forza del destino
Leontyne Price, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Fiorenza Cossotto, Bonaldo Giaiotti, Gabriel Bacquier, Michel Sénéchal, Kurt Moll, Malcolm King, William Elvin
London Symphony Orchestra, James Levine
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Puccini: Il Trittico
RecommendedIl tabarro
Ingvar Wixell (Michele), Plácido Domingo (Luigi), Renata Scotto (Giorgetta), Gillian Knight (La Frugola), Michel Sénéchal (Il Tinca), Dennis Wicks (Il Talpa), John Treleaven (Venditore di canzonette), Yvonne Kenny, Peter Jeffes (Due Amanti)
Suor Angelica...
The highlight of this set...is an outstanding Suor Angelica, with Renata Scotto in the title role, supported by Marilyn Horne as her aunt, and Ileana Cotrubas (who also sings Lauretta in Schicchi)... —
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Building a Library, October 2017, Also Recommended
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Puccini: La bohème
Rolando Panerai (baritone), Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass), Gianni Maffeo (baritone), Michel Sénéchal (tenor), Mirella Freni (soprano), Gernot Pietsch (tenor), Elizabeth Harwood (soprano), Hans-Dietrich Pohl (baritone), Hans-Dieter Appell (tenor), Berliner Philharmoniker, Schöneberger...
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Puccini: La Bohème
Mirella Freni (Mimi), Luciano Pavarotti (Rodolfo), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Colline), Elizabeth Harwood (Musetta), Rolando Panerai (Marcello), Gianni Maffeo (Schaunard), Michel Sénéchal (Alcindoro/Benoit), Gernot Pietsch (Parpignol)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
Pavarotti is a young and ardent Rodolfo, suddenly overwhelmed by love in 'Che gelida manina'. The tone is gorgeous, the legato pilled just enough to put a lamp in your throat… Mirella Freni's... —
