Gramophone Awards, Gounod (composer)
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Special offer. Contemplation
RecommendedHuw Montague Rendall (baritone), Opéra Orchestre Normandie Rouen, Ben Glassberg
The first thing one notices in this wide-ranging recital from rising baritone Huw Montague Rendall is his seriousness of purpose...There’s also top-rank work from the orchestra and conductor;... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2024, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2024, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024, Shortlisted - Debut Solo Album
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Winners, Voice & Ensemble
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International Opera Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Solo Recording
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The beauty of Alice Coote’s mezzo-soprano glows with radiance. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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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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this celebration of song is infused with heartfelt joy. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Song
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Gounod: Faust
Recommended1859 version
Benjamin Bernheim (Faust), Véronique Gens (Marguerite), Andrew Foster-Williams (Méphistophélès), Jean-Sébastien Bou (Valentin), Juliette Mars (Siebel), Ingrid Perruche (Marthe), Anas Séguin (Wagner/Un mendiant)
Les Talens Lyriques, Flemish Radio Choir, Christophe Rousset
Tenor Benjamin Bernheim is a superb Faust, with a bright and lovely lyric voice that is also comfortable in the lower tessitura of act I. As Marguerite, soprano Véronique Gens is an ideal romantic... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Opera
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International Opera Awards, 2020, Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year (Gens)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Winner - Opera (19th-century)
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Opera
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Arranged loosely as a landscape, the repertoire is often impressive and imaginative, avoiding monotonous chunks and flowing between topics and textures, including France’s recurring fascination... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2024, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Voice & Ensemble
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Special offer. Joyce DiDonato: Diva, Divo
RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (mezzo)
Orchestre et Choeur de L'Opéra National De Lyon, Kazushi Ono
Proof of DiDonato's consummate musicianship is everywhere here...For sheer beauty of tone, legato that defies gravity and singing that restores your faith in human nature, listen last of all... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Recital
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2011, Opera Choice
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Grammy Awards, 54th Awards (2011), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Opera, June 2011, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Miroir(s)
Opera Arias
Elsa Dreisig (soprano), Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie Pyrénées Méditerranée, Michael Schønwandt
This is [Dreisig’s] debut album and it is phenomenally good. First there is the concept of juxtaposing arias for the same dramatic character by different composers…Next, stylistic variety enables... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2018, Opera Choice
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2018, Winner - Jeune Talent
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Recital
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Winner - Vocal Recital
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Paris, mon amour
RecommendedSonya Yoncheva (soprano), Etienne Dupuis (baritone), Celso Albelo (tenor)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Frederic Chaslin
gleaming, virtuoso singing. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th April 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Recital
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Opera, May 2015, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Arias by Gounod and Massenet
RecommendedRolando Villazon (tenor), Natalie Dessay
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Evelino Pido
This is mostly well-planned and executed recital mixes favourites with extracts from operas that have remained rarities, even with the increased interest in late 19th-century repertory. It begins... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2005, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2005, Winner - Recital
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