Javier Camarena
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The voice is elegant, flexible and carefully controlled, with sympathetic support provided by Gli Originali under the baton of Riccardo Frizza. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th November 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2023, Recording of the Month
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International Opera Awards, 2023, Nominated - Recording (Solo Recital)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Berlioz: Requiem
Javier Camarena (tenor), Chorus Santa Cecilia, Concertgebouworkest, Antonio Pappano
One could go on about the beauties and musical virtues of this release, but suffice to say that it is by far the best Berlioz Requiem in years. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Choral
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Special offer. Bellini: Il Pirata
Javier Camarena (Gualtiero - Il Pirata), Marina Rebeka (Imogene), Franco Vassallo (Ernesto), Antonio Di Matteo (Goffredo), Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania, Fabrizio Maria Carminati
[Rebeka] displays a nimble coloratura from a voice that sits happily in the middle register but with a nice ripe top...A word of praise, too, for the villainous baritone Ernesto. Franco Vassallo... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Winner - Opera
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Record Review, 27th November 2021, Record of the Week
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Contrabandista
Javier Camarena (tenor), Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Les Musiciens du Prince, Gianluca Capuano
Things bode well when you shout ‘Bravo!’ at the hi-fi speakers at the end of the first track…The amiable Mexican throws himself into this repertoire with abandon, greedily lapping up the florid... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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International Opera Awards, 2019, Nominated - Recital Album
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Gounod: La Colombe
RecommendedErin Morley (Sylvie), Javier Camarena (Horace), Michèle Losier (Mazet), Laurent Naouri (Maître Jean)
Hallé Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder
One hero of this admirable Opera Rara release is Mark Elder, utterly committed to Gounod's score and coaxing elegant music-making from the Hallé. There's also some properly idiomatic singing,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th October 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Special offer. Bellini: I Puritani
Diana Damrau (Elvira), Javier Camarena (Arturo), Ludovic Tézier (Riccardo), Nicolas Testé (Sir Giorgio), Annalisa Stroppa (Enrichetta) & Fernando Radó (Gualtiero)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Real - Madrid, Evelino Pidò (conductor) & Emilio Sagi (stage director)
Emilio Sagi’s production is monochrome and beautifully lit, blends traditional costumes with an abstract setting, frames his soloists with elegance, and draws detailed performances from them,... —
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Bellini: La Sonnambula
Cecilia Bartoli (Amina), Juan-Diego Flórez (Elvino), Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (Il Conte Rodolfo), Liliana Nikiteanu (Teresa), Gemma Bertagnolli (Lisa), Peter Kalman (Alessio) & Javier Camarena (Un Notaro)
Orchestra La Scintilla, Alessandro De Marchi
Sonnambula, though, stands or falls on the bel canto expertise of its two main protagonists, and on this occasion they are both in great form. The highlight of the first scene, and indeed of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2009, Editor's Choice
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Camarena undoubtedly feels an affinity with this repertoire. In the story of Nina in ‘L’ultima canzone’, who is marrying someone else, he artfully blends nonchalance with hints of a broken heart.... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Rigoletto
Carlos Álvarez (Rigoletto), Javier Camarena (Duke of Mantua), Desirée Rancatore (Gilda), Ketevan Kemoklidze (Maddalena), Ante Jerkunica (Sparafucile)
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Riccardo Frizza, Monique Wagemakers
There’s some formidable singing, though Rancatore is not at her best here...Camarena and Álvarez, however, are both magnificent. —
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Special offer. Puccini: Die Welt zum Weinen bringen - eine Hörbiografie
Mirella Freni (soprano), Liuwe Tamminga (organ), Thomas Albus (narrator), Udo Wachtveitl (narrator), Katja Schild (narrator), Stefan Hunstein (narrator), Robert Dölle (narrator), Max Simonischek (narrator), Jerzy May (narrator), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Tomislav Mužek, George Petean, Shenja Lacher...
