DVD Video, Rameau (composer)
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If the programme sounds familiar, the reality is anything but. The first movement of Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 2 No. 3 emerges spacious and unhurried…The Op. 119 Bagatelles are an even greater... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th May 2020
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2020, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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2 CDs + DVD Video
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Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie
Topi Lehtipuu (Hippolyte), Anne-Catherine Gillet (Aricie), Stéphane Degout (Thésée), Sarah Connolly (Phèdre), Jaël Azzaretti (L'Amour), Salomé Haller (Oenone), Marc Mauillon (Tisiphone / La Grande Prêtresse de Diane)
Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm, Ivan Alexandre
As a whole, Ivan Alexandre's production is appropriately stately and Antoine Fontaine's set seems superbly authentic...The drama in the first act coalesces around Sarah Connolly's powerful Phèdre,... —
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Special offer. Rameau: Castor et Pollux
Anna Maria Panzarella, Véronique Gens, Finnur Bjarnason, Henk Neven, Judith van Wanroij, Nicolas Testé, Thomas Oliemans & Anders J. Dahlin
Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera & Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset (conductor) & Pierre Audi (stage director)
Christophe Rousset directs a superb ensemble performance with a cleanly voiced choir and an acute ear for Rameau's pungent orchestration. Patrick Kinmoth's set and costumes have an austere,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2009, DVD of the Month
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Special offer. Rameau: Les Paladins
Topi Lehtipuu, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Laurent Naouri, Sandrine Piau, René Schirrer, François Piolino
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
José Montalvo's production provides the spectacle with magical video back projections: characters trampoline on clouds and walk through ornamental gardens and buildings, and a veritable menagerie... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2006, DVD 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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Pierre Monteux & Charles Munch: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Historic Telecasts
Charles Munch, Pierre Monteux
Munch's Valses nobles is one of the very finest accounts of the piece we have heard...perfectly paced, much more relaxed than we hear nowadays and with plenty of time for the artists to breathe.... —
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The Art of José Iturbi
Jose Iturbi (piano), with Amparo Iturbi (piano)
Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra, Donald Voorhees
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Special offer. Rameau: Platée
Mathias Vidal (Thespis), Nahuel Di Pierro (Un Satyre/Citheron), Marc Mauillon (Momus), Julie Fuchs (Thalie/La Folie), Tamara Bounazou (L'Amour/Clarine), Lawrence Brownlee (Platée), Jean Teitgen (Jupiter), Reinoud Van Mechelen (Mercure), Adrianna Bignani Lesca (Junon), Les Musiciens du Louvre, Choeurs...
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Special offer. Rameau: In Convertendo, grand motet
Nicolas Rivenq, Sophie Daneman, Jeffrey Thompson & Olga Pitarch
Orchestra and Chorus of Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
The tendency to divide top honours in the high Baroque between Bach and Handel seems most unfair when Rameau is on the menu. What an astonishing musical imagination! The performance of the... —
