Vocal, Delibes (composer)
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RecommendedOpera Arias & Songs
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano) & Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Devieilhe’s singing lights up the good, the bad and the music of Ambroise Thomas with her vivid, pure tone and apparently limitless breath. Alexandre Tharaud pops in as a sensitive piano partner;... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Recital
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Classical Solo Vocal Album
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Vocal
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it's a superlative performance [of Alborada del gracioso] by any standards, including repeated notes that turn me green with envy. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd September 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012, Editor's Choice
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Lane in wonderful debonair mode here, sparkling through a personal encore selection from Jamaican Rumba to a Toccata by his own father, and from Myra Hess to Dudley Moore. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd September 2013
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New. Mandoline. Dans Les Salons Fin-de-Siècle
Raffaele La Ragione (mandolin), François Dumont (piano), Sandrine Piau
This is charming...A sequence of arrangements of Chaminade at the heart of the disc sounds entirely idiomatic on the mandolin, while La Ragione is delightfully teasing in the 'Pizzicato' from... —
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Æther
Sarah Aristidou (soloist), Daniel Barenboim, Christian Rivet, Emmanuel Pahud, Orchester des Wandels, Chor der KlangVerwaltung, Thomas Guggeis
Can you capture the ineffable? Sarah Aristidou’s remarkable debut disc Æther explores things within and beyond. She is duly shrouded in mist for the booklet pictures, but there is nothing the... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Newcomer
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2018, Archive/Re-Issue of the Month
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Diapason d’Or, January 2019, Collectionneur
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, Opera Choice
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Opera, April 2017, Recording of the Month
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This CD represents something of a triumph not for one young artist but for two. ENO's new music director, Edward Gardner, conducts the accompaniments, with the Academy of St Martin's on fine... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2007, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2007, Disc of the Month
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Both possess agile voices, heard to great effect in Fauré’s ‘Tarantelle’, and elsewhere Adriana González floats her high notes beautifully. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Vocal Music
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L’invitation au voyage
Mélodies from La belle époque
John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & Graham Johnson (piano), Paul (1852–1933) & Lucien (1860–1909) Hillemacher
There are some fine songs here. I was glad… to be reminded what a good composer Delibes is, and to be introduced to Lecocq's wonderfully witty settings of La Fontaine. The actual piano sound... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2006, Editor's Choice
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