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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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Special offer. Reynaldo Hahn: L’île du rêve
Artavazd Sargsyan, Hélène Guilmette, Cyrille Dubois (tenor), Chœur du Concert Spirituel, Anaïk Morel, Thomas Dolié (baritone), Ludivine Gombert, Munich Radio Orchestra, Hervé Niquet
Hahn is a precociously skilled orchestrator who elegantly sidesteps anything that might sound like ‘local’ colour...A successful song composer, he writes sympathetically for the voice. His cast... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2020
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Special offer. Édouard Lalo: Le Roi d’Ys
Judith van Wanroij (Rozenn), Kate Aldrich (Margared), Cyrille Dubois (Mylio), Jérôme Boutillier (Karnak), Nicolas Courjal (Le Roi d’Ys), Christian Helmer (Saint Corentin/Jahel)
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Hungarian National Choir, György Vashegyi
Overall, the result is a decent enough account of a worthwhile, well-composed piece that maintains musical and dramatic interest throughout – though some of the principal vocal performances... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Opera
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Special offer. Bizet: Carmen
Deepa Johnny (Carmen), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Don José), Nicolas Courjal (Escamillo), Iulia Maria Dan (Micaëla)
Orchestre de l'opéra de Rouen Normandie, Chœur Accentus, Chœur d’enfants de la Maîtrise du Conservatoire de Rouen, Ben Glassberg, Romain Gilbert
If nothing else, this video reminds us that opera in the 19th century was a visual spectacle, and that spectacle wasn’t some sort of vulgar concession to the demands of idle entertainment. —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2025, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Opera Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Complete Recording
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Special offer. Clémence de Grandval: Mazeppa
Tassis Christoyannis (Mazeppa), Nicole Car (Matréna), Ante Jerkunica (Kotchoubey), Paweł Trojak ( L’Archimandrite), Julien Dran (Iskra), Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mihhail Gerts
Performances and recording quality are up to Bru Zane's polished standards, even with the leading singers sometimes stretched to their dramatic limits but not beyond. In the substantial baritone... —
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Special offer. Paul Dukas: Cantates, choeurs et musique symphonique
Flemish Radio Choir & Brussels Philharmonic, Hervé Niquet
Hervé Niquet and his forces are superb guides through this repertory, little of which has previously appeared on disc…orchestral textures are admirably lucid, the choral singing beautifully... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gounod: Le tribut de Zamora
Judith van Wanroij (Xaima), Jennifer Holloway (Hermosa), Edgaras Montvidas (Manoel), Tassis Christoyannis (Ben-Said), Boris Pinkhasovich (Handjar), Juliette Mars (Iglésia)
Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Hervé Niquet
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Diapason d’Or, January 2019, Découverte
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Special offer. César Franck: Hulda
Jennifer Holloway, Judith van Wanroij, François Rougier, Véronique Gens, Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Gergely Madaras
Jennifer Holloway is magnificent in the immense title-role here, if occasionally steely in tone, marvellously alert to the text...and superb in her delineation of Hulda’s transformation from... —
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International Opera Awards, 2023, Nomianted - Recording (Complete Opera)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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Special offer. Luigi Cherubini: Les Abencérages
Anaïs Constans (Noraïme), Edgaras Montvidas (Almanzor), Thomas Dolié (Le Vizir), Tomislav Lavoie (Alamir), Artavazd Sargsyan (Gozalve), Douglas Williams (Abderam)
Purcell Choir, Orfeo Orchestra and György Vashegyi
Cherubini’s vocal line is free of Italian decorative thrills. Anaïs Constans handles Norïme’s high tessitura with grace, and Edgaras Montvidas’s Almanzor is a worthy heir to Louis Nourrit, the... —
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Opera, February 2023, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Opera
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Special offer. Saint-Saëns: Proserpine
Véronique Gens (Proserpine), Marie-Adeline Henry (Angiola), Frédéric Antoun (Sabatino), Andrew Foster-Williams (Squarocca), Jean Teitgen (Renzo)
Munchner Rundfunkorchester, Flemish Radio Choir, Ulf Schirmer
Frédéric Antoun is a bright, not exactly nuanced Sabatino and Jean Teitgen a warm and sympathetic Renzo, but the main prize goes to Véronique Gens for her utterly superb singing of the title... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2018, Winner - Opera
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