Patrick Summers
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Special offer. Heggie: Great Scott
RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (Arden Scott), Ailyn Pérez (Tatyana Bakst), Frederica von Stade (Winnie Flato), Nathan Gunn (Sid Taylor), Anthony Roth Costanzo (Roane Heckle)
Orchestra and Chorus of The Dallas Opera, Patrick Summers
A cast full of leading American singers and impressive company forces under Patrick Summers give this amiable if slight entertainment a strong launch…Though there’s a good deal of audience noise... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Contemporary Classical Composition
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Coming soon. Missy Mazzoli: Breaking the Waves
Houston Grand Opera (opera company), Lauren Snouffer, Houston Grand Opera Chorus, Michael Mayes (baritone), Maire Therese Carmack, Ryan McKinny, Sam Dhobhany, Michelle Bradley, David Portillo, Andrew Surrena, Johnny Salvesen, Jon Janacek, Patrick Summers
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New. Daniel Catán: Florencia en el Amazonas
Alicia Gianni, David Pittsinger, Houston Grand Opera (opera company), Houston Grand Opera Chorus, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Norman Garrett, Thomas Glass, Ana María Martínez, Joshua Guerrero (tenor), Patrick Summers
Catán's lavish neoromantic score draws heavily and with considerable technical skill on such forebears as Puccini (especially Turandot) and Ravel (Daphnis et Chloé), yet despite its undeniable... —
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Special offer. O'Regan: The Phoenix (Live)
Thomas Hampson (baritone), Luca Pisaroni (bass-baritone), Chad Shelton (tenor), Rihab Chaieb (mezzo-soprano), Lauren Snouffer (soprano), Elizabeth Sutphen (soprano), Houston Grand Opera, Houston Grand Opera Chorus, Houston Grand Opera Children's Chorus, Patrick Summers
It’s O’Regan’s music that really draws the attention: the choruses in particular are very fine, and his resonant orchestral writing embraces big-boned Americana and lithe Classical pastiche. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2020
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Renée Fleming - Bel Canto
RecommendedRenée Fleming (soprano)
Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra of St Luke's, Patrick Summers
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Grammy Awards, 45th Awards (2002), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Love Duets - From Puccini to Bernstein
RecommendedAilyn Perez (soprano), Stephen Costello (tenor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Patrick Summers
both have full-bodied lyric voices with plenty of 'ping', flexibility and height...they sing [the Broadway selections] with such charm and affection that the switch between genres feels entirely... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th May 2014
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Susan Graham - Artist Portrait
Susan Graham
Featuring William Christie & les Arts Florissants, Harry Bicket & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Ensemble Oriol and Malcolm Martineau, Kent Nagano & Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon, San Fransisco Opera Orchestra and Pierre-Laurent Aimard
This superb mezzo is at the peak of her powers —
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Special offer. Arias & Duets
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone), Olga Borodina (mezzo-soprano), English Chamber Orchestra, Patrick Summers
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Special offer. Re-Joyce
The Best of Joyce DiDonato
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), with Patrizia Ciofi (soprano), Frederica von Stade (mezzo),
Il complesso barocco, Les Talens Lyriques, Le Concert d`Astrée, Alan Curtis, Christophe Rousset, Emmanuelle Haïm and others
a very varied collection showing something of the singer’s current strengths as well as her vocal evolution as caught on record. —
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