Campra
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André Campra: Messe de Requiem & Les Maîtres de Notre-Dame de Paris
Ensemble Correspondances (early music ensemble), Sébastien Daucé
This is a superb recording from one of today’s best ensembles to specialise in French Baroque music. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2024, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Choral
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Special offer. Véronique Gens: Tragediennes 1 (French Operatic Tragedies)
Véronique Gens (soprano)
Ensemble les Talens Lyrique, Christophe Rousset
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2006, Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2006, Editor's Choice
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Campra's sacred music is built on a solid Renaissance understanding, it seems, and Christie knows this inasmuch as he finds a tempo that is at once tenderly rolling yet also stretches into eternity. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Pramsohler, violinist and founder of Ensemble Diderot, has given careful thought to the construction and originality of his programmes…In The Paris Album, François Couperin and Jean-Féry Rebel... —
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Diapason d’Or, October 2019, Nouveauté
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Instrumental
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2019
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The direction of Patrick Bismuth is secure and well balanced, and the instrumental accompaniment is precise and clear. The voices all blend well, and the chorus has fine diction. This is one... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Les Grandes Eaux de Versailles: Music of the Royal Festivities
Collegium 1704, Galilei Consort, Le Poème Harmonique, Les Nouveaux Caractères, Stradivaria, The King's Consort, Vaclav Luks, Robert King, Benjamin Chénier, Vincent Dumestre, Sébastien d'Hérin, Gaétan Jarry, Daniel Cuiller
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Piau negotiates with true French panache both the vocal and emotional highs and lows. Her voice is as sensual as Piaf, poetic as Greco, and with a chameleon-like sensitivity to the dramatic... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2012, Editor's Choice
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Opera, October 2012, Recording of the Month
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D’Oustrac is dazzling across these various personae, to which she brings not only luscious vocalism but also a blistering intensity. No less impressive is the Ensemble Amarillis…for zest and... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2020, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Campra, Rameau, Mondonville
Marie Perbost, Emmanuelle Ifrah (sopranos), Samuel Boden (countertenor), Zachary Wilder (tenor), Victor Sicard (baritone)
Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm
André Campra's Requiem of 1695 (commissioned in memory of the Archbishop of Paris) is the main event here, but the two 'grands motets' are much more than makeweights: Rameau's In Convertendo... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2023
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Nymphes
Virginie Thomas (vocalist), Emmanuel Resche-Caserta (soloist), Maud Gnidzaz, Juliette Perret, Anaïs Bertrand, Béatrice Martin (soloist)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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