Koechlin
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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. Mirages
RecommendedOpera Arias & Songs
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano) & Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Devieilhe’s singing lights up the good, the bad and the music of Ambroise Thomas with her vivid, pure tone and apparently limitless breath. Alexandre Tharaud pops in as a sensitive piano partner;... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Recital
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Classical Solo Vocal Album
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Vocal
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Ariane Matiakh’s performance of the symphony is beautifully done and can be recommended alongside James Judd’s 1995 account for RCA. —
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Schallplattenkritik Quarterly Critics Choice, Autumn 2022, Orchestral Music & Concertos
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2022
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Special offer. Green - Melodies françaises on Verlaine’s poems
Recommended2CD Casebound Deluxe (Limited Edition)
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Jerome Ducros (piano) & Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
Quatuor Ebène
may be the single most appealing and important French song recital this side of the largely excellent but sometimes uneven Fauré and Debussy discs on Hyperion...Throughout, Jaroussky's singing... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Vocal Winner
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Roset's light lyric voice stretches high above the stave with a rapid fire coloratura that takes no prisoners, yet when she reaches for the vocal horizon in Koechlin's 'M'a dit Amour' her diction... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2026, Editor's Choice
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The Bamberg musicians are too interested in the sheer, the precise and the subtle [in the Ravel] to stumble into cheap exoticism. The colours are sharp in Britten’s Quatre chansons françaises,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Record Review, 3rd June 2017, Recording of the Week
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Special offer. Koechlin - Vocal Works With Orchestra
RecommendedJuliane Banse (Soprano)
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart SWR, Heinz Holliger
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2006, Choral & Song Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Premiere Recording Award
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Special offer. Green - Melodies françaises on Verlaine’s poems
RecommendedPhilippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Jerome Ducros (piano) & Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
Quatuor Ebène
may be the single most appealing and important French song recital this side of the largely excellent but sometimes uneven Fauré and Debussy discs on Hyperion...Throughout, Jaroussky's singing... —
Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Vocal Winner
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…Piau's radiant tone, renowned clarity of diction and range of sensuous emotion make this a heavenly experience. —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2008, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2008, Editor's Choice
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