Aparté
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Lucrezia (portraits of A Woman)
Sandrine Piau, Amel Brahim-Djelloul (sopranos), Karine Deshayes, Lucile Richardot (mezzos), Les Paladins, Jérôme Corréas
Beauty alone makes bearable each soloist ’s visceral enactment of female suffering. —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2025, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Voice & Ensemble
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Couperin: Ariane consolée par Bacchus
Stéphane Degout (baritone)
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
A newly discovered, charming cantata for baritone and continuo is lovingly rendered alongside stylish chamber works in praise of Lully and Corelli. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Baroque Vocal
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Farinelli - A Portrait
Live in Bergen
Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
Hallenberg is a force of nature, in stark contrast to the synthetic singing of the film, for which sound engineers fuse a mezzo with a male alto voice. Hallenberg’s voice is unmistakably her... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2017, Opera Choice
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Opera, February 2017, Recording of the Month
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Schubert (Un)finished
Symphony No. 7 in B flat major (D 759), Lieder with orchestra
Florian Boesch (bass-baritone)
Concentus Musicus Wien, Stefan Gottfried
I’m still in two minds as to how well this completion of Schubert’s score (fleshed out with a reupholstered scherzo and an en’tracte from Rosamunde) hangs together, but the poise and lyricism... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2019
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Diapason d’Or, March 2019, Nouveauté
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Salieri: Tarare
Cyrille Dubois (Tarare), Jean-Sebastian Bou (Sultan Altar), Karine Deshayes (Astasie)
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
The title-role is given a strong identity by Cyrille Dubois’s bright little tenor. His wife Astasie is vibrantly delineated by soprano Karine Deshayes. Atar’s endless villainy is vividly presented... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Winner - Opera
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Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 'scottish', the Hebrides
Les Ambassadeurs ~ La Grande Écurie, Alexis Kossenko
Kossenko is persuasive in his own way, and the colours he evokes from his orchestra are appropriately painterly. —
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Schumann, Grieg: Piano Concertos
Reed Tetzloff, Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Tetzloff has a strong Romantic spirit, offering a rich tonal palette, an alluring rhythmic flexibility, a sensitivity to local harmonic surprises and the power needed to ring out the more virtuoso... —
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The Haydn readings are period-aware, with a fantastic freshness, energy and range of colour...A strong debut, and I hope to see more from these three on Aparté in the future. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2024, Editor's Choice
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Rebecca Clarke: Works For Viola
Vinciane Béranger, Dana Ciocarlie (piano), David Louwerse, Helene Collerette
All of the works on this recording are beautifully crafted, and played in exemplary fashion by violist Vinciane Béranger and her colleagues. In recent years, Clarke’s music has received well-deserved... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2022
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