Opera, Opera Excerpts, Saint-Saëns (composer)
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Saint-Saëns: Symphonic Poems - Le Carnaval des Animaux - l'Assassinat du Duc de Guise
RecommendedLes Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
One of his many virtues is that he’s not afraid of making his orchestra play very, very quietly; another is that, where a composer has not noted dynamics, Roth feels free to invent them, and... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th November 2023
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2023, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2023, Editor's Choice
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Les Siècles combine elegance and joie de vivre to keep the feet tapping. —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2023, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3
RecommendedGaston Litaize (organ)
Orchestre de Paris, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim
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Building a Library, February 2015, First Choice
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The organ has a really gutsy, symphonic core... Jan Kraybill... plays with considerable verve and a feeling both for colour and for the grand gesture. —
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Classical Instrumental Solo
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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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No point trying to fault anything: the lightness and flexibility of her touch takes the breath away, and her sound is at every moment transparently controlled, each piece displaying insight... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2012, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2012, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Ne me refuse pas: French Opera Arias
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto)
Orchestre National de France, Fabien Gabel
This procession of femmes fatales, schemers and innocents has a point to make, and it's not just the singer's ability to get under their skin...it shows them as part of a larger movement: the... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Recital
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Opera, June 2011, Recording of the Month
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a musical personality of a beguiling charm, a quality rarely encountered in today's more severe musical climate...You are reminded, too, of a naturalness and insouciance far removed from so... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Re-issue of the Month
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This set gives an invaluable historical cross-section of Antipodean singers in both commercial and rare archive recordings. —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2017, Re-issue of the Month
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