Alex Rosen
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Mozart: Requiem
RecommendedChadi Lazreq (treble), Ying Fang (soprano), Beth Taylor (mezzo), Laurence Kilsby (tenor), Alex Rosen (bass)
Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Pichon and his superb choir and period instrument orchestra, Pygmalion, move the discussion on by sensitively adding their own interpretive layer in this beautiful and truly moving programme. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th October 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Choral
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2024
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Choral
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Special offer. Songs of Passion
RecommendedLea Desandre (mezzo), Thomas Dunford (lute, theorbo), with Alex Rosen (bass-baritone), Jess Dandy (contralto), Laurence Kilsby (tenor), Huw Montague Rendall (baritone)
Jupiter
Across two discs, the performers shed any hint of 'whitewashed' English restraint, fathoming Dowland's twilight world and Purcell's exuberant theatricality. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2025, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2025
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The New York Times, Best Classical Music Albums of 2025
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Special offer. Handel: Alcina
RecommendedMagdalena Kožená (Alcina), Anna Bonitatibus (Ruggiero), Erin Morley (Morgana), Elizabeth DeShong (Bradamante), Alois Mühlbacher (Oberto), Alex Rosen (Melisso), Valerio Contaldo (Oronte)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
The orchestra plays with fastidious attention to Handel’s ever-changing palette, and its support for the singers – particularly with the obbligatos – is unfailingly sensitive. And the singers... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th February 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Opera
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Mozart: Requiem
RecommendedChadi Lazreq (treble), Ying Fang (soprano), Beth Taylor (mezzo), Laurence Kilsby (tenor), Alex Rosen (bass)
Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Pichon and his superb choir and period instrument orchestra, Pygmalion, move the discussion on by sensitively adding their own interpretive layer in this beautiful and truly moving programme. —
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th October 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Choral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Choral
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2 Vinyl Records
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Cavalli's sparing use of strings is densified into fivepart textures that spread like wildfire - Daucé plasters fulsome orchestral accompaniments on to many arias and recitatives devised originally... —
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Special offer. Monteverdi: Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria
Filippo Mineccia (soloist), Alex Rosen (soloist), Ambroisine Bré (soloist), Marie Perbost (soloist), Lucile Richardot (soloist), Pierre-Antoine Chaumien (soloist), Cyril Auvity (soloist), Juan Sancho (soloist), Valerio Contaldo (soloist), Marielou Jacquard (soloist), Jörg Schneider (soloist), Fabien...
Such is the power of Richardot’s magnificent performance that it might have swamped all else. That it does not is tribute to a splendidly accomplished cast...truly a unique performance, one... —
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Opera, September 2022, Disc of the Month
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Special offer. Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea
Elsa Benoit (Poppea), Jake Arditti (Nerone), Ambroisine Bré (Ottavia), Iestyn Davies (Ottone), Alex Rosen (Seneca), Stuart Jackson (Arnalta), Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo García Alarcón
Alarcón and Cappella Mediterranea are experts at this repertoire and play with skill, commitment, energy and some innovative continuo devices to reflect, emphasise and punctuate the singers...I... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2024, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Blu-ray + DVD Video
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Special offer. Monteverdi: L'Incoronazione di Poppea
Claire Lefilliâtre, Ana Escudero, Jennifer Courcier, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Nicholas Scott, Marco Angioloni, Francesca Aspromonte, Nicolò Balducci (countertenor), Eva Zaïcik (mezzo-soprano), Juan Sancho (tenor), Alex Rosen (bass), Camille Poul, Geoffroy Buffière, Les Épopées, Stéphane Fuget
It comes closer than many to an elusive golden mean by presenting an uncut text, adopting relatively straightforward instrumentation (fiddles, some other strings and a plethora of chordal continuo... —
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Special offer. Le Promenoir des Amants
Oray-Royaumont Live
Marie-Laure Garnier (soprano), Célia Oneto-Bensaid (piano), Marielou Jacquard (mezzo), Kunal Lahiry (piano), Jean-Christophe Lanièce (baritone), Alex Rosen (bass), Michał Biel (piano)
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Special offer. Handel: Messiah
Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal, Cor de Cambra Del Palau de La Musica Catalana, Franco Fagioli (conductor)
each voice-section seems to have its own confidently worn, open-throated colouring, providing some of the most uplifting moments. Fagioli’s conducting produces few outright surprises but he... —
