Marie-Claude Chappuis
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Lully: Armide
Antonio Figueroa, Marie-Claude Chappuis, Marc Mauillon, Douglas Williams, Cyril Auvity, Etienne Bazola, Marie-Adeline Henry, Judith van Wanroij, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro & Marie-Claude He
Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
It is no accident that the most-recorded sections of Armide are the anti-heroine’s monologues. In Christophe Rousset’s exquisitely produced live recording, these are delivered with appropriate... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2017, Editor's Choice
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International Opera Awards, 2018, Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
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Opera, July 2017, Recording of the Month
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Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626
RecommendedSophie Karthäuser (soprano), Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor, Johannes Weisser (baritone)
Freiburger Barockorchester, RIAS Kammerchor, René Jacobs
Choir members are the virtuosos here. Their flexibility enables them to enrich or bleach vocal colour, and flood or dry up volume levels, to the subtlest degree. Jacobs plays the choir like... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd November 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Choral & Song Choice
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JS Bach: Mass in B minor
Robin Johannsen (soprano), Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo), Helena Rasker (alto), Sebastian Kohlhepp (tenor), Christian Immler (bass-baritone)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor, René Jacobs
Readers familiar with Jacobs’s performances will not be disappointed by the graceful phrasing and light rhythmic pulse which characterise his approach to Bach’s music. His soloists are thoughtfully... —
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Record Review, 28th May 2022, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K621
RecommendedMark Padmore (Tito), Alexandrina Pendatchanska (Vitellia), Bernarda Fink (Sesto), Marie-Claude Chappuis (Annio), Sunhae Im (Servilia) & Sergio Foresti (Publio)
RIAS Kammerchor & Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs
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Building a Library, September 2006, First Choice
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Record Review, December 2006, Critics Disc of the Year
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Rameau: Pygmalion
Cyrille Dubois (Pygmalion), Marie-Claude Chappuis (Céphise), Céline Scheen (La Statue), Eugénie Warnier (L’Amour)
Les Talens Lyriques, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Christophe Rousset
Rameau’s inventive overture fizzes, crackles and beguiles as each element demands in Les Talens Lyriques’ capable hands…[Dubois's] ardency and finesse never have any hints of strain at the top... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2017, Disc of the Month
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Special offer. Colin de Blamont: Les Fêtes grecques et romaines
Hélène Carpentier (soloist), Marie-Claude Chappuis (soloist), David Witczak (soloist), Cyrille Dubois (soloist), Cécile Achille (soloist), Gwendoline Blondeel, La Chapelle Harmonique, Valentin Tournet
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Aber Die Liebe - Johannes Brahms: Songs and Piano Works
Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo-soprano), Christian Chamorel, Hans Egidi, Quatuor Sine Nomine
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Chausson: Symphony in B-Flat Major, Op. 20 / Viviane, Op. 5 (Orchestral & Vocal Works)
David Delacroix (cello), Lauranne Oliva (soprano), Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo-soprano)
Sinfonieorchester Basel, Ivor Bolton
This exquisitely presented and played exploration of Chausson's music marks the end of Ivor Bolton's nine-year tenure at the helm of the Sinfonieorchester Basel…[the Symphony] is adroitly paced... —
