Alexandre Duhamel
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Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
RecommendedJulien Behr (Pelléas), Vannina Santoni (Mélisande), Alexandre Duhamel (Golaud), Marie-Ange Todorovitch (Geneviève), Jean Teitgen (Arkel), Hadrien Joubert (Yniold)
Les Siècles, Chœur de l'Opéra de Lille François-Xavier Roth
It’s like listening in black and white rather than colour. The music’s generally soft-toned orchestral landscape is both vivid and beautifully shaded...sensitively played and paced under Roth’s... —
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Opera, April 2022, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th March 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Winner - Opera
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Opera
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Special offer. Gounod: Cantates et Musique Sacrée
Collection Prix de Rome Vol. 6
Brussels Philharmonic, Flemish Radio Choir, Hervé Niquet
The choral singing has wonderful richness, clarity and fervour, above all in the Messe vocale, which is breathtaking. A tremendous set, it adds immeasurably to our understanding of Gounod’s... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2018
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Choral
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Special offer. Rameau: Les Indes Galantes
Ana Quintans (soprano), Julie Roset (soprano), Emmanuelle de Negri (soprano), Mathias Vidal (tenor), Alexandre Duhamel (baritone), Guillaume Andrieux (baritone), Edwin Crossley-Mercer (bass-baritone), La Chapelle Harmonique, Valentin Tournet
With the extra music for Amour in the Prologue, this is a welcome complement to the Budapest recording (with mostly French soloists) conducted by György Vashegyi. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Rameau: Platée
RecommendedZachary Wilder (tenor), Marie Lys (soprano), Cyril Costanzo, Cécile Achille, David Witczak, Mathias Vidal (tenor), Alexandre Duhamel (baritone), Juliette Mey, La Chapelle Harmonique, Valentin Tournet
The satire which director Valentin Tournet draws from his artists feeds off their virtuosity. Vidal relishes Platée's self-delusion with added trills, bouncy runs and moaning slides that showcase... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2025, Opera Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Special offer. Bizet: Carmen
Adèle Charvet (Carmen), Julien Behr (Don José), Florie Valiquette (Micaëla), Alexandre Duhamel (Escamillo), Gwendoline Blondeel (Frasquita), Ambroisine Bré (Mercédès), Matthieu Walendzik (Le Dancaïre), Attila Varga-Toth (Le Remendado), Orchestre et Chœur de l'Opéra Royal, Hervé Niquet
it's good to hear this score played on 'original instruments'. And if Hervé Niquet's tempi are sometimes a little wayward after an overture that never really stops for breath, there's some... —
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Special offer. Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Pelléas), Chiara Skerath (Mélisande), Alexandre Duhamel (Golaud), Janina Baechle (Geneviève), Jérôme Varnier (Arkel), Maëlig Querré (Yniold), Damian Pass (Doctor/Shepherd)
Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Chœur de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux, Pierre Dumoussaud,...
It’s very beautiful and there is some fine and idiomatic playing, notably from the brass and woodwinds. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
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Ravel: Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. II
Fleur Barron (mezzo-soprano), Alexandre Duhamel (baritone), Ludovic Morlot
For all the oriental beauty of Shéhérazade, delivered with suitably seductive warmth by Barron, it is the Mallarmé miniatures that shine most brightly here, with Morlot carefully teasing out... —
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Special offer. Camille Erlanger: La sorcière
Joé Bertili (soloist), Maxence Billiemaz (soloist), Jean-François Borras (soloist), Andreea Soare (soloist), Carine Séchaye (soloist), Daria Novik (soloist), Eva Kubicek (soloist), Léa Fusaro (soloist), Servane Brochard (soloist), Oscar Esmerode (soloist), Alexandre Duhamel (soloist), Raphaël Hardmeyer...
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New. In the Heat of Classics
Thomas Adès (piano), Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Terry Wey (countertenor), Paul O'Dette (lute), Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Viktoria Postnikova (piano), Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Marcel Reyans (tenor), Nicolas Courjal (bass), Samuel...
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Ravel: Complete Orchestral Works Vol. 4
Stéphanie D’Oustrac (Concepcion), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (Torquemada), Alexandre Duhamel (Ramiro), Paul Gay (Don Inigo Gomez) & Yann Beuron (Gonzalve), Stéphanie D’Oustrac (mezzo)
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Stéphane Denève
