Opera, Moniuszko (composer)
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Aleksandra Kurzak: Gioia!
RecommendedAleksandra Kurzak (soprano), Francesco Demuro (tenor)
Orchestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Omer Meir Wellber
Kurzak impresses as a coloratura soprano of the old school —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th February 2012
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Opera, April 2012, Recording of the Month
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Mariusz Kwiecien: Slavic Heroes
RecommendedMariusz Kwiecien (baritone)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz
[His signature roles] suggest a certain dashing Italianate quality that's refelcted in his voice: lighter, less rich and chocolatey than some Slavic rivals, for example Dmitri Hvorostovsky.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th January 2012
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Opera, February 2012, Recording of the Month
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Magda Molendowska’s Halka is wonderful. Her voice is vibrant, capable of lovely soft singing that never loses tonal body, and equally capable of expressing pain and anger without the sound turning... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
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Excellently played. —
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Moniuszko: Halka (4 Act Italian Version)
Tina Gorina, Monika Ledzion-Porczynska, Matheus Pompeu, Robert Gierlach, Rafal Siwek, Karol Kozlowski
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi
New textures are revealed in the playing of Europa Galante, full of lightness and colour, and Biondi finds authentic snap in the rhythms, not least in the invigorating mazurka that closes Act... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2019
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International Opera Awards, 2020, Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
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Moniuszko: Halka
Tatiana Borodina (soprano), Aleksandra Buczek (soprano), Mariusz Godlewski (baritone), Andrzej Kalinin (tenor), Zbigniew Kryczka (bass-baritone), Oleh Lykhach (tenor), Rafal Majzner (tenor), Jacek Rys (tenor), Jaroslaw Zawadzki (tenor), Radoslaw Zukowski (bass)
Orchestra, Chorus & Ballet...
Even in its final form from 1858 (the original dates from 10 years earlier), Halka is uneven and derivative, but it is precisely its variable quality that makes the work so fascinating. For... —
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Special offer. Stanisław Moniuszko: Straszny dwór
Podlasie Opera And Philharmonic Choir, Petr Nekoranec, Mariusz Godlewski, Paweł Konik, Zuzanna Nalewajek, Paweł Cichoński, Agnieszka Rehlis, Agata Schmidt, Krystian Adam (tenor), Karen Gardeazabal, Artur Ruciński, Rafał Siwek, Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi
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Operatic Recital: Alfred Orda (1963-1977)
Alfred Orda (baritone)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Warsaw, Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Henryk Debich, Stefan Rachon, Krzysztof Missona
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Stanislaw Moniuszko: Halka
Capella Cracoviensis (early music ensemble), Marek Opaska (bass), Sebastian Szumski (baritone), Przemyslaw Borys (tenor), Przemyslaw Jozef Balka (bass), Michalina Bienkiewicz (soprano), Natalia Rubis (soprano), Jan Tomasz Adamus
Rubi brings radiance to the title role, Przemyslaw Borys’s dusky tenor is distinctive as her loyal Jontek, and the baritone Sebastian Szumski is suitably aloof as the betraying nobleman Janusz.... —
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