Opera, Opera Arias, Rimsky Korsakov (composer)
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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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The Rachmaninov songs suit that lower register particularly well; the famous Vocalise is luxuriantly attractive, and Don’t Sing, My Beauty sensuously nostalgic…she closes with two songs from... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2017
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Solo Recording (Opera Arias)
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Anita Rachvelishvili
Anita Rachvelishvili (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Giacomo Sagripanti
The voice itself has plenty of potential…It’s all there in the last track, Eboli’s ‘O don fatale’…Rachvelishvili tears into this great aria and has a proper dramatic instinct for where to change... —
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Schallplattenkritik Awards, 2018, Winner - Jahrespreis
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International Opera Awards, 2019, Nominated - Recital Album
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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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The Record of Singing – The Very Best of Volumes 1-4
RecommendedFrom 1899 to the end of the 78 era: 1899-1952
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Gramophone Awards, 1989, Winner - Historic vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 1979, Winner - Historical
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Historic vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Historic Reissue
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Gramophone Awards, 1977, Winner - Historical
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Wonders galore in Rachmaninov's playing, beyond its obvious historical importance. Cast-iron technique, proper old-school sense of line and tone colour, and an incomparable rubato. —
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Special offer. Poison d'Amour
Oksana Volkova (mezzo), Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, Constantine Orbelian
‘Poison d’amour’ is that rarity, a recital disc where interest is nicely balanced between the singer and the song…She opens with ‘O ma lyre immortelle’ from Gounod’s Sapho, where the awakening... —
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Opera, July 2021, Disc of the Month
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It's a world in which Idil Biret is completely at home. —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Homage to Fritz Kreisler
RecommendedRuggiero Ricci (violin), Fritz Kreisler (violin) & Haddon Squire (piano), Fritz Kreisler (violin), Jascha Heifetz (violin) & Emanuel Bay (piano), David Oistrakh (violin) & Vladimir Yampolsky (piano), Christian Ferras (violin) & Jean-Claude Ambrosini (piano), Shlomo Mintz (violin)...
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd January 2012
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