Louise Alder
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Handel: Semele
RecommendedLouise Alder (Semele), Hugo Hymas (Jupiter), Lucile Richardot (Juno/Ino), Carlo Vistoli (Athamas), Gianluca Buratto (Somnus/Cadmus), Emily Owen (Iris), Angela Hicks (Cupid), Peter Davoren (Apollo)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Alder is riveting in the title role as she mutates from soft seductress to vain brat to crushed victim, applying a range of styles to develop her character...Richardot’s intensity equals Alder’s,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd October 2020
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2020, Opera Choice
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Special offer. Handel: Theodora
RecommendedLouise Alder (Theodora), Tim Mead (Didymus), Anna Stéphany (Irene), Stuart Jackson (Septimius), Adam Plachetka (Valens)
Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
The balance of Cohen’s vigorously confident singers and players allows him to make his ensemble a major character in the story...The soloists also play their parts, led by Louise Alder as the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2024, March 2024
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Building A Library, June 2024, Recommended Recording
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Alder needs her linguistic wits about her – pianist Joseph Middleton too as he responds to or prefigures her changing colours and inflections. Both triumph across a nightscape in which dreaming... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd January 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Special offer. Britten: The Rape of Lucretia
RecommendedChristine Rice (Lucretia), Allan Clayton (Male Chorus), Kate Royal (Female Chorus), Duncan Rock (Tarquinius), Matthew Rose (Collatinus), Michael Sumuel (Junius), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Bianca) & Louise Alder (Lucia)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Leo Hussain (conductor) & Fiona Shaw...
The production, set during an archaeological excavation, packs a punch —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd July 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Opera
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, DVD of the Month
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Opera, November 2016, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Britten: The Rape of Lucretia
RecommendedChristine Rice (Lucretia), Allan Clayton (Male Chorus), Kate Royal (Female Chorus), Duncan Rock (Tarquinius), Matthew Rose (Collatinus), Michael Sumuel (Junius), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Bianca) & Louise Alder (Lucia)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Leo Hussain (conductor) & Fiona Shaw...
The production, set during an archaeological excavation, packs a punch —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd July 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Opera
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Opera, November 2016, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie; Vier Lieder Op. 27
Louise Alder (soprano), Yoonshin Song (soloist), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Collon's conducting paces the work's first half from pre-dawn darkness to the ascent of the mountain peak with a firm but pliable tightness that keeps the music moving along through its changing... —
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For me, the lighter popular songs that conclude the disc, with Alder floating exquisitely soft high notes, take the prize. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Song
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Special offer. Richard Strauss: Through Life and Love
Louise Alder (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Alder can do it all, and there are already plenty of colours in the voice. —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Editor's Choice
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 25 & 27
Academy of Ancient Music (early music ensemble), Richard Egarr (early keyboard instruments), Robert Levin (early keyboard instruments), Louise Alder (soprano)
His pianism never crosses over into mere garrulity and he always pulls back from coming across as the cleverest guy in the room. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Special offer. Strauss: Tod und Verklärung, Don Juan, Sechs Lieder Op. 68
RecommendedLouise Alder (soprano), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Robin Ticciati
When orchestral sonorities and engineering coincide like this, the result in Strauss is thrilling...Ticciati’s winged uplift gilds the afterlife beautifully, while there’s dynamic restraint... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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