Vocal, Montsalvatge (composer)
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Elîna Garanča: Habanera
RecommendedElîna Garanča (mezzo), Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Coro Filarmonico del Regio di Torino, Karel Mark Chichon
Garanča's is a medium-scale mezzo approach, elegant and devoid of ugly lurches into chest voice. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd August 2010
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2010, Editor's Choice
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The Bridge CD is a live performance from the 2004 Caramoor Festival. Its star, without a doubt, is the great mezzo Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, who died less than two years later. ...Hunt Lieberson... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2008, Editor's Choice
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Montsalvatge: Orchestral Works
Ruby Hughes (soprano), Clara Mouriz (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena
The BBC Philharmonic are in excellent form throughout, well marshalled by Mena, they and Montsalvatge's often spare, quiet textures captured in typically rich Chandos sound. A very enjoyable... —
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Special offer. Folk Songs
RecommendedMagdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano), Czech Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle
One of the great joys of this album is the sense of genuine dialogue between Kožená and the instrumentalists. This is a singer who really listens in detail to what’s going on in the orchestra,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Playing on a glorious-sounding instrument made by Patrick Robin only last year, Zimmermann can occasionally sound a touch self-conscious in the more pointed phrasing. Perianes, however, brings... —
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Patricia Petibon: Melancolia
Spanish Arias and Songs
Patricia Petibon (soprano), with Susan Manoff, Joël Grare, with Daniel Manzanas
Orquesta nacional de España, Josep Pons
There's a pleasingly rich core to Petibon's voice besides the coloratura heights she's renowned for. She performs with total commitment and without fear and this injects everything she sings... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2012, Editor's Choice
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Voice and guitar may be a natural combination for the passions and colours of Spanish song, but rarely have they sounded as vivaciously, seductively idiomatic on disc…Isbin’s range of colour…masterfully... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2017
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Gimenez is both singing virtuoso and colour washing accompanist, dispatching vocal lines with extraordinary lyricism. —
