Download, Hahn, R (composer)
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Gens, as one might expect, is exceptional in this repertoire. Most of the songs are about erotic anticipation and tristesse, and her dark, slightly smoky tone adds to the sensuality of it all.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th November 2015
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Solo Vocal
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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. 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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Hahn’s music is not without interest and his score is decently played. The Prélude begins with a sinuous, Syrinx-like flute solo – composed a year before Syrinx! – and there is some unusual... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Opera
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2025, Musique Symphonique
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Authenticity is present in an Érard piano, date unspecified, and a Stradivarius violin, the ‘Davidoff’, which has been held in the Paris Conservatoire museum since 1887, when one of the first... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2021, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Youn’s playing throughout is accomplished and stylish, with a full-value orchestral contribution to match. But his brilliant-edged, very modern keyboard tone is some distance away from the mellower... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Instrumentalist of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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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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Forbidden, yet seldom forbidding, Appl’s exquisitely cultivated fruits are ripe for plucking, and deserve to be consumed with unalloyed relish! —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2023
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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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