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Grétry: Raoul Barbe Bleue
Orkester Nord (soloist), François Rougier (soloist), Matthieu Lécroart (soloist), Chantal Santo-Jeffery (soloist), Eugénie Lefebvre (soloist), Chantal Santon-Jeffery (soloist), Marine Lafdal-Franc (soloist), Enguerrand de Hys (soloist), Jérôme Boutillier (soloist), Manuel Nunez Camelino (soloist),...
They do Grétry proud, with the ensemble’s playing first-rate and conductor Martin Wåhlberg maintaining consistently dynamic tempos. This is essentially an ensemble piece, and a capable company... —
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Dubois, T: Le Paradis Perdu
Chantal Santon (Eve), Mathias Vidal (Adam), Jennifer Borghi (Archangel) & Alain Buet (Satan)
Les Cris de Paris & Les Solistes des Siècles, Geoffroy Jourdain
The result, as performed here, sounds like more harmonically adventurous Gounod. It's utterly professional and rich in good tunes, and I suspect that, when the music sounds inappropriately charming,... —
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Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 29 & 40, Oboe Concerto
Ivan Podyomov (oboe), Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
In the Oboe Concerto, the supple and beautiful tone conjured by Ivan Podyomov (from a modern copy of a period instrument) is as appealing as his poised musicianship. —
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Ophélie Gaillard: Alvorada
Ophélie Gaillard (cello), Luiz de Aquino, Rudi Flores, Emmanuel Rossfelder (guitar), Sandrine Chatron (harp), Fabien Cyprien (trombone), Sabine Devieilhe (soprano), Gerardo Di Giusto, Fernando Maguna (piano), Cyril Garac (violin), Nicolas Genest (trumpet), Romain Lecuyer (bass), Juanjo Mosalini (bandonéon),...
Gaillard maintains her identity as a classical cellist but displays a happy adaptability to her 26 hand-picked collaborator, not with the reserve of an outsider but with the invention of a passionate... —
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A nicely programmed trio of Czech works for strings, from affable Dvořák to jagged Martinů, is played with lightness and grace. One or two ragged edges don’t mar the whole. —
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Chopin: Concertos for Piano & String Quintet
David Lively (piano), Thomas de Pierrefeu (double bass)
Quatuor Cambini-Paris
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Karine Deshayes: Après un rêve
Karine Deshayes (mezzo-soprano), Arnaud Thorette (violin), Antoine Pierlot (cello), Johan Farjot (piano)
Ensemble Contraste
It's nicely done, for the most part. Deshayes has a light-ish meozzo with an appealing shimmer in her upper registers and warm chest tones, used sparingly but to telling effect...The playing... —
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