Isabel Leonard
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Special offer. Grace: The Music of Michael Tilson Thomas
RecommendedSan Francisco Symphony, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Bay Brass, Isabel Leonard, Audra McDonald, New World Symphony, Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson, John Wilson
For listeners whose musical lives have been inexorably shaped by MTT the conductor (and I count myself as one of those), perhaps it’s high time we should be giving MTT the composer the respect... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2024, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Stravinsky: Pulcinella, Le Baiser de La Fée (divertimento)
Isabel Leonard (mezzo-soprano), Paul Appleby (tenor), Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Gustavo Gimeno
This is perhaps the most sheerly lovely Pulcinella I’ve heard, slightly romanticised with a full-orchestral richness rather than the spring of a chamber ensemble. But to match the beautifully... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2025, Orchestral Choice
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Maestro – Music by Leonard Bernstein
Victoria Ruggiero (piano), Nick Blaemire, Mallory Portnoy, Kate Eastman, Antonia Butler (vocalist), Michael Clarke (vocalist), Mark Brown (vocalist), Tony Yazbeck (vocalist), Clyde Alves (vocalist), Jay Armstrong Johnson (vocalist), Ruth Mense (piano), Dicky Tarrach (drumkit), Thissy Thiers (bassguitar),...
the soundtrack album is positively jam-packed and as colourful as Bernstein’s story...The album is a real snapshot of the f ilm, arranged in sequences of music and dialogue; the latter element... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Film Music/Score of the Year
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Voice and guitar may be a natural combination for the passions and colours of Spanish song, but rarely have they sounded as vivaciously, seductively idiomatic on disc…Isbin’s range of colour…masterfully... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2017
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Ravel: L’enfant et les sortileges & Shéhérazade
RecommendedIsabel Leonard (L'Enfant), Yvonne Naef (Mother, Chinese Cup, Dragonfly), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (Teapot, Arithmetic and Frog), Elliot Madore (Grandfather Clock/Tomcat), Paul Gay (Armchair/Tree), Anna Christy (Princess, Fire, Nightingale)
Saito Kinen Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Susan Graham has absolutely the right voice for this music and knows it well. Her French is fine and I'm delighted she respects Ravel's carefully notated vocal slides. —
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Grammy Awards, 58th Awards (2015), Best Opera Recording
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Michael Tilson Thomas: From the Diary of Anne Frank & Meditation on Rilke
RecommendedSasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano), Ryan McKinny (bass-baritone), San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Winner - Best Classical Compendium
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She Came To Me (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Bryce Dessner (guitar, banjo, piano, synthesizer), Katia Labèque (piano), Alicia Hall Moran (mezzo-soprano), David Morans Sanchez (tenor), Fiora Cutler (vocals), Greer Grimsley (bass-baritone), James McVinnie (organ), Olivia Dei Cicchi (vocals), Emmett O'Hanlon (baritone), Isabel Leonard (mezzo-soprano),...
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Massenet: Werther
Matthew Polenzani (Werther), Isabel Leonard (Charlotte), Sean Michael Plumb (Albert), Jasmine Habersham (Sophie), Patrick Carfizzi (Le Bailli)
Houston Grand Opera, Robert Spano
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She Came To Me (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Bryce Dessner (guitar, banjo, piano, synthesizer), Katia Labèque (piano), Alicia Hall Moran (mezzo-soprano), David Morans Sanchez (tenor), Fiora Cutler (vocals), Greer Grimsley (bass-baritone), James McVinnie (organ), Olivia Dei Cicchi (vocals), Emmett O'Hanlon (baritone), Isabel Leonard (mezzo-soprano),...
