Hervé Niquet
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Massenet: Songs with Orchestra
RecommendedCyrille Dubois, Véronique Gens, Étienne Dupuis, Nicole Car, Jodie Devos, Chantal Santon Jeffery
Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Hervé Niquet
Véronique Gens of course is an artist to treasure and as always she responds alertly to the demands of text and melodic line. Of the others, I was especially taken by the tenor Cyrille Dubois...Call... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2022, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year (Gens/Devos)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Male Singer of the Year (Dupuis)
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Voice & Orchestra
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Les Divas d'Offenbach
RecommendedVéronique Gens (soprano), Chœur et Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Hervé Niquet
It is music ideally suited to Véronique Gens with her sumptuous voice and relishing of linguistic nuance... Captured in warm, glowing sound, with the superb Choeur et Orchestre des Pays de la... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th October 2025
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Vocal Music
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2025, Vocal Choice
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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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Cherubini & Plantade: Requiems pour Louis XVI et Marie-Antoinette
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Niquet brings fresh artistry and specifically French authority honed over decades with Le Concert Spirituel to both works. For me, this is a prize-winning disc —
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Choral
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Gens is in fine voice – indeed, she seems to be in her prime. Her diction is as always immaculate and she produces a stream of elegant tone…and the required vocal heft to ride Massenet’s orchestra... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th June 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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International Opera Awards, 2018, Winner - Solo Recital
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Recital
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International Classical Music Awards, 2018, Winner - Vocal Recital
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Special offer. Portraits Vol 4: Félicien David
Brussels Philharmonic, Flemish Radio Choir, Hervé Niquet
The performances are fabulous. François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles mine the textures and sonorities of Christophe Colomb for all their worth...Hervé Niquet and the Brussels Philharmonic take... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2017
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Special offer. Reynaldo Hahn: L’île du rêve
Artavazd Sargsyan, Hélène Guilmette, Cyrille Dubois (tenor), Chœur du Concert Spirituel, Anaïk Morel, Thomas Dolié (baritone), Ludivine Gombert, Munich Radio Orchestra, Hervé Niquet
Hahn is a precociously skilled orchestrator who elegantly sidesteps anything that might sound like ‘local’ colour...A successful song composer, he writes sympathetically for the voice. His cast... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2020
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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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. Halévy: La Reine de Chypre
Véronique Gens, Cyrille Dubois, Étienne Dupuis
Flemish Radio Choir & Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Hervé Niquet
Gens’s warm voice and intelligent pacing lend lustre to the only female role and the male singers, too, are generally easy on the ear. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2018, Editor's Choice
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International Opera Awards, 2019, Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Winner - Opera
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The two top voices here – Sandrine Piau and Katherine Watson – are well matched, with Anthea Pichanick the even, steady contralto and Rupert Charlesworth the clean, fresh-toned tenor…While Niquet’s... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2017
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st December 2017
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Record Review, 16th December 2017, Recording of the Week
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Record Review, 14th October 2017, Recording of the Week
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