Orchestral, Chausson (composer)
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Chausson: Poème de l'amour et de la mer & Symphonie Op. 20
RecommendedVéronique Gens (soprano)
Orchestre National de Lille, Alexandre Bloch
A performance that ranks, unquestionably, among the finest to date. Superbly sung, and wonderfully well conducted and played by Alexandre Bloch and his Lille orchestra, this is an interpretation... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2019
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Record Review, 27th April 2019, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2019
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Solo Vocal
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Special offer. Franck & Chausson: Symphonies
RecommendedOrchestre de la Suisse Romande, Marek Janowski
Janowski draws on all his operatic experience to make the melodic lines live and sing. Everything has shape and colour, but these frequent dark undertows are never allowed to wallow in sentimentality.... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2007, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Tingaud understands that the Franck is essentially a work of contrasts, and offers us a wide range of both tempos and dynamics, so that tensions between the two extremes become a guide for the... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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The French Romantic sensibility is clearly audible across this beautifully played selection: texture and atmosphere are everything, tension ebbs and flows. —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Symphonic Recording of the Year
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The intelligently constructed programme is the most intriguing the pair have produced...Aside from the occasional woolly texture, support from Kreizberg's Monte Carlo Philharmonic is superlative...This... —
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Daniel Hope - Belle Époque
Daniel Hope (violin), Lise de la Salle (piano), Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano), Zürcher Kammerorchester
It’s all very tastefully done, if rather insubstantial. —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Poème
The Artistry of Lydia Mordkovitch
Lydia Mordkovitch (violin), with Marina Gusak-Grin (piano), with Marina Gusak-Grin (piano) & Gabriel Woolf (narrator), with Clifford Benson (piano), with Julian Milford (piano)
her distinctiveness of tone is unmistakeable — deep and plummy, as forceful as mellifluous. Wilhelmj’s version of Wagner’s Album Leaf piano solo spurs her to wonders of phrasing. Chausson’s... —
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Jascha Heifetz: 1951-1954 Recordings
Jascha Heifetz (violin)
RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, William Steinberg, Izler Solomon, Alfred Wallenstein
Six works, including a mesmerising Ravel Tzigane, a highly lyrical Chausson Poeme and spellbinding Wieniawski —
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Un Frisson Français - A century of French song
Susan Graham (mezzo soprano) & Malcolm Martineau (piano)
The familiar here appears in unusual contexts and alongside a scattering of rarities. The performers are at one in their fluency, delicate rubato and avoidance of Anglo-Saxon archness, within... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Vocal Finalist
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Chausson: Symphony in B-Flat Major, Op. 20 / Viviane, Op. 5 (Orchestral & Vocal Works)
David Delacroix (cello), Lauranne Oliva (soprano), Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo-soprano)
Sinfonieorchester Basel, Ivor Bolton
This exquisitely presented and played exploration of Chausson's music marks the end of Ivor Bolton's nine-year tenure at the helm of the Sinfonieorchester Basel…[the Symphony] is adroitly paced... —
