Opera, Opera Excerpts, Cherubini (composer)
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Special offer. Véronique Gens : Tragediennes 2 (from Gluck to Berlioz)
Véronique Gens (soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
…a wonderful odyssey through late Baroque to early Romantic French opera. Gens's agile voice is the perfect vehicle to cope with these emotional extremes, from the enchanting to the chilling.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2009, Editor's Choice
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Opera, October 2009, Recording of the Month
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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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Warner Classics has reissued a complete set of Wilhelm Furtwängler’s studio recordings, reuniting for the first time Deutsche Grammophon, Polydor, HMV, Decca and Telefunken in one release. This... —
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Diapason d’Or, October 2021, Réédition
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Winner - Historical
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French Opera Arias
RecommendedRoberto Alagna (tenor)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, London Voices, Bertrand de Billy
This is an interestingly put together recital which manages to illuminate much of the tenor repertoire in 19th century French opera (and early) whilst mixing the known and the unknown. Of course,... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2001, Winner - Recital
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Leonie Rysanek
Leonie Rysanek (soprano), George London, Lotte Rysanek, Christa Ludwig (Octavian) & Hilda de Groote (Sophie)
Josef Krips & Karl Böhm
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Special offer. BBC Legends, Volume 3
Sena Jurinac (soloist), Christa Ludwig (soloist), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), John Mitchinson (soloist), Heather Harper (soloist), Peter Pears (tenor), Alfreda Hodgson (soloist), John Shirley-Quirk (soloist), Donald Mitchell, Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Marianne Häggander (soloist), Robert Tear (soloist),...
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Special offer. BBC Legends Volume 1
Joyce Barker (Magna Peccatrix), Beryl Hatt (Mater Gloriosa), Agnes Giebel (Una Poenitentium), Kerstin Meyer (Mulier Samaritana), Helen Watts (Maria Aegyptiaca), Kenneth Neate (Doctor Marianus), Alfred Orda (Pater Ecstaticus), Arnold van Mill (Pater Profundus), Emil Gilels (piano), Zinka Milanov (soprano),...
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Overtures by Beethoven, Cherubini, Gluck, Mendelssohn, Mozart & Weber
Bamberger Symphoniker, Karl-Heinz Steffens
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Sinful Women: Dagmar Pecková
Recorded at the Studio of Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Bratislava, September 2014
Dagmar Pecková (mezzo)
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Aleksandar Markovic
Dagmar Peckova's voice has evolved from strong and stylish Mozartian into a richly powerful instrument whose darkly sensuous hues are ideally suited to the lusher late Romantics…her hollow-toned,... —
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Sempre libera. A Farewell to Renata Scotto
Anna Di Stasio (mezzo-soprano), Carlo Bergonzi (tenor), Renata Scotto (soprano), Alfredo Kraus (tenor), Cynthia Buchan (mezzo-soprano), Roderick Kennedy (bass), Bonaldo Giaiotti (bass), Franco Corelli (tenor), Guido Mazzini (bass), Kari Nurmela (baritone), Thomas Allen (baritone), José Carreras (tenor),...
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