DVD Video, Raphaël Pichon (conductor)
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Special offer. Cavalli: Ercole Amante
Nahuel di Pierro, Anna Bonitatibus, Giuseppina Bridelli, Francesca Aspromonte, Krystian Adam, Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Even if Pichon’s ideas occasionally gild the fleur-de-lys, Pygmalion’s animated music-making serves to resuscitate this extraordinary opera admirably. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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Special offer. Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
RecommendedKrzysztof Bączyk (Figaro), Sabine Devieilhe (Susanna), Andrè Schuen (Count), Adriana González (Countess), Lea Desandre (Cherubino)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Raphaël Pichon, Martin Kušej
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024, Shortlisted - DVD/Blu-ray of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Video Opera
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New. Opéra Comique Collection, Vol. 2
Carmen - Hamlet - Fortunio - La nonne sanglante - Lakmé
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Louis Langrée, Laurence Equilbey, Raphaël Pichon
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Special offer. Delibes: Lakmé
Sabine Devieilhe (Lakmé), Frederic Antoun (Gérald), Stephane Degout (Frédéric), Ambroisine Bré (Mallika), Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon, Laurent Pelly
Pichon conducts the Pygmalion ensemble and choir with dash and urgency, the period instruments adding a litheness to the textures – there is no room for false sentimentality. Pelly goes for... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2024, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Special offer. Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie
Reinoud Van Mechelen (Hippolyte), Elsa Benoit (Aricie), Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo (Phèdre), Stéphane Degout (Thésée), Séraphine Cotrez (Oenone), Arnaud Richard (Neptune/Pluton), Eugénie Lefebvre (Diane), Lea Desandre (Pretresse de Diane/Chasseresse/Matelote/Bergère)
Pygmalion, Raphael Pichon
The stylish staging…is a busy mix of ancient and modern, and it’s an outstanding show musically. Elsa Benoit as Aricie sets the vocal standard with her gorgeous opening aria; Reinoud van Mechelen’s... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Opera
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the many instrumentalists are superb, the scoring options imaginative, and there’s some technically wonderful singing from eight magnificent soloists plus compelling eruptions from a volcanic... —
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Special offer. Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice
1859 version by Hector Berlioz
Marianne Crebassa (Orphée), Hélène Guilmette (Eurydice), Lea Desandre (Amour)
Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon. Aurélien Bory (director)
Mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa is a magnificent Orphée. Her bright, lyric mezzo is a bit more authoritative in the middle to upper registers than the lower one. But she sings with admirable... —
