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New. Lully: Proserpine
Marie Lys (Proserpine), Ambroisine Bré (Arethusa), Jean-Sébastien Bou (Crinise), Véronique Gens (Ceres), Nick Pritchard (Mercury), Laurence Kilsby (Alphée); Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
Marie Lys makes much of the few opportunities she is given...this penultimate instalment in Christophe Rousset's magnificent survey of Lully's operas should not be missed. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 27th June 2026, Record of the Week
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Special offer. Méhul: Uthal
RecommendedKarine Deshayes (Malvina), Yann Beuron (Uthal), Jean-Sébastien Bou (Larmor), Sébastien Droy (Ullin), Philippe-Nicolas Martin (Le Chef des Bardes / Le Troisième Barde)
Les Talens Lyriques & Choeur de Chambre de Namur, Christophe Rousset
Yann Beuron is the keenly engaged Uthal, while Jean-Sébastien Bou gives Larmor a wronged nobility and Karine Deshayes is consistently expressive as the anguished Malvina. There’s characterful... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th February 2017
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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International Opera Awards, 2018
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Special offer. Lully: Atys
Reinoud Van Mechelen (Atys), Marie Lys (Sangaride/Flore), Ambroisine Bré (Cybèle), Philippe Estèphe (Célénus)
Les Talens Lyriques, Choeur de Chambre de Namur, Christophe Rousset
The instrumentalists of Les Talens Lyriques brilliantly tease out the drama...but the ultimate glory is Rousset ’s playing of the harpsichord, to which he gives its own affective voice – rejoicing... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Opera Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Opera
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International Opera Awards, 2025, Winner - Complete Recording
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Special offer. Handel: Solomon
Christopher Lowrey (Solomon), Matthew Newlin (Zadok), Ana Maria Labin (Queen of Sheba/First Harlot), Gwendolyne Blondeel (Second Harlot), Andreas Wolf (A Levite), Millenium Orchestra, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Leonardo García Alarcón
The band thrills to Alarcón’s gestures, delivering crisp rhythms, furious tempos – the Arrival of the Queen of Sheba is not to be missed – and languorous lines...But the chorus is the star of... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2023, Choral & Song Choice
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Record Review, 25th February 2023, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. César Franck: Hulda
Jennifer Holloway, Judith van Wanroij, François Rougier, Véronique Gens, Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Gergely Madaras
Jennifer Holloway is magnificent in the immense title-role here, if occasionally steely in tone, marvellously alert to the text...and superb in her delineation of Hulda’s transformation from... —
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International Opera Awards, 2023, Nomianted - Recording (Complete Opera)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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Salieri: Armida
Lenneke Ruiten (Armida), Teresa Iervolino (Ismene), Florie Valiquette (Rinaldo), Ashley Riches (Ubaldo)
Les Talens Lyriques, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Christophe Rousset
The cast is solid. The title-role has strong possibilities which soprano Lenneke Ruiten regularly seizes, among them the opera’s close, when Armida’s destructive fury reaches its apogee. Teresa... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2021, Editor's Choice
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Opera, March 2021, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Opera
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Winner - Premiere Recording
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Special offer. Falvetti: Il diluvio universale
Magali Arnault (Acqua), Mariana Flores (Rad), Caroline Weynants (Natura humana), Evelyn Ramirez Munoz (Giustizia Divina), Fabián Schofrin (Morte), Fernando Guimarães (Noè), Matteo Bellotto (Dio) & Keyvan Chemirani (Zarb, Oud, Darf)
Cappella Mediterranea & Namur Chamber Choir, Leonardo...
this disc is not just some worthy exhumation but the rehabilitation of an composition bursting with imagination and gripping drama...There is indeed something 'other' about this piece, a hint... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2012, Editor's Choice
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Lully: Acis et Galatée
Cyril Auvity (Acis/Apollon), Ambroisine Bré (Galatée/Diane), Edwin Crossley-Mercer (Polyphème), Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
Rousset’s mesmerising conducting binds chorus to band in Lully’s most striking passages...The principals are equally arresting...The palm, however, goes to the band and chorus of the Les Talens... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, Opera Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Record Review, 5th November 2022, Record of the Week
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Special offer. Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: Cephale Et Procris
Lore Binon (soloist), Gwendoline Blondeel (soloist), Marc Mauillon (soloist), Lisandro Abadie (soloist), Wei-Lian Huang (soloist), Deborah Cachet (soloist), Samuel Namotte (soloist), Laurent Bourdeaux (soloist), Pauline De Lannoy (soloist), Gert-Jan Verbueken (soloist), Ema Nikolovska (soloist),...
A Nocte Temporis’s playing applies finesse to juxtaposed sensuality and energy... Reinoud van Mechelen juggles functions as conductor and flexible high tenor impressively. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Opera
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Lully: Thésée
Mathias Vidal (Thésée). Karine Deshayes (Médée), Deborah Cachet (Aeglé), Marie Lys (Cléone/Cérès), Bénédicte Tauran, (La Grande Prêtresse de Minerve), Thaïs Raï-Westphal (Dorine/Venus), Les Talens Lyriques, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Christophe Rousset
Rousset and his performers are lithe and imaginative. A well-chosen cast make much of Lully's expressive recitative. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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International Opera Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Complete Recording
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