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Special offer. Spontini: La vestale
RecommendedMarina Rebeka (Julia), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Licinius), Tassis Christoyannis (Cinna), Aude Extrémo (La Grande Vestale), David Witczak (Un Consul / Chef des Aruspices), Nicolas Courjal (Le Grand Pontife)
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
this new studio recording offers not only musicologically scrupulous foundations but benefits from the period-instrument forces of Les Talens Lyriques, who are intent upon the drama contained... —
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Opera, June 2023, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th May 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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Special offer. Gounod: Cantates et Musique Sacrée
Collection Prix de Rome Vol. 6
Brussels Philharmonic, Flemish Radio Choir, Hervé Niquet
The choral singing has wonderful richness, clarity and fervour, above all in the Messe vocale, which is breathtaking. A tremendous set, it adds immeasurably to our understanding of Gounod’s... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2018
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Choral
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Special offer. Offenbach: La Périchole
RecommendedAude Extrémo (La Périchole), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Piquillo), Alexandre Duhamel (Don Andrès de Ribeira), Eric Huchet (Le comte de Panatellas), Marc Mauillon (Don Pedro de Hinoyosa)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Chœur de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux, Marc Minkowski
In the pit are Les Musiciens du Louvre – part of a growing and welcome trend towards giving operetta the benefits of historically informed practice. You can hear the results from the very first... —
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Record Review, 22nd June 2019, Record of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th June 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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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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Special offer. André Messager: Passionnément
Véronique Gens (Ketty Stevenson), Étienne Dupuis (Robert Perceval), Nicole Car (Julia), Eric Huchet (William Stevenson), Chantal Santon Jeffrey (Helene Le Barrois), Armando Noguera (Harris), Munchner Rundfunkorchester, Stefan Blunier
Messager’s score is a minor masterpiece. His gifts as an orchestrator are evident from the start...Stefan Blunier conducting the Munich Radio Orchestra has clearly lost his heart to Messager’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2021
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Opera, November 2021, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Opera
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Special offer. Saint-Saëns: L'Ancêtre
RecommendedJennifer Holloway (Nunciata), Gaëlle Arquez (Vanina), Hélène Carpentier (Margarita), Julien Henric (Tébaldo), Michael Arivony (Raphaël), Matthieu Lécroart (Bursica)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Philharmonic Chorus of Tokyo, Kazuki Yamada
the real stars are undoubtedly the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and their conductor Kazuki Yamada who invest a tremendous degree of verve and energy into the score and keep the drama... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2025, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Gounod: Faust
Recommended1859 version
Benjamin Bernheim (Faust), Véronique Gens (Marguerite), Andrew Foster-Williams (Méphistophélès), Jean-Sébastien Bou (Valentin), Juliette Mars (Siebel), Ingrid Perruche (Marthe), Anas Séguin (Wagner/Un mendiant)
Les Talens Lyriques, Flemish Radio Choir, Christophe Rousset
Tenor Benjamin Bernheim is a superb Faust, with a bright and lovely lyric voice that is also comfortable in the lower tessitura of act I. As Marguerite, soprano Véronique Gens is an ideal romantic... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Opera
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International Opera Awards, 2020, Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year (Gens)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Winner - Opera (19th-century)
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Opera
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Special offer. Offenbach: Maitre Peronilla
Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Antoinette Dennefeld, Tassis Christoyannis, Véronique Gens, Éric Huchet, Loïc Félix, Matthieu Lécroart, Anaïs Constans, Patrick Kabongo, François Piolino, Yoann Dubruque, Raphaël Brémard, Jérôme Boutillier, Antoine Philippot, Philippe-Nicolas Martin, Diana Axentii
Chœur...
Offenbach deftly plays to the 19th-century French passion for all things Iberian with Spanish accents in the orchestration…A strong cast includes Véronique Gens as the wicked sister Leona who... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2020
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2020, Opera Choice
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Special offer. Saint-Saëns: Phryné
Florie Valiquette (Phryné), Cyrille Dubois (Nicias), Thomas Dolié (Dicéphile), Anais Constans (Lampito), Francois Rougier (Cynalopex), Partick Bolliere (Agoragine/Un Heraut), Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen Normandie, Choeur du Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet
Florie Valiquette is a winning Phryné, and Cyrille Dubois all that you could hope for in a French tenor as her beloved Nicias – their Act II duet deserves to be much better known. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Opera
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Special offer. Massenet: Werther
Tassis Christoyannis (Werther), Véronique Gens (Charlotte), Thomas Dolié (Albert), Matthieu Lécroart (Le Bailli), Hélène Carpentier (Sophie)
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Children's Choir of the Zoltán Kodály Hungarian Choir School, György Vashegyi
With his relatively lightweight baritone, Tassis Christoyannis nevertheless proves a sensitive exponent of the lovelorn poet, while Véronique Gens’s Charlotte works well, even if she cannot... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Opera
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Opera
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