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Salieri: Les Danaides
Judith van Wanroij (Hypermnestre), Philippe Talbot (Lyncée), Tassis Christoyannis (Danaüs), Katia Velletaz (Plancippe) & Thomas Dolié (Pélagus / Officiers)
Les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles & Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
Les Talens Lyriques reveals the baleful splendours of Salieri's writing under Christophe Rousset. Judith van Wanroij's Hymnestre is fesity but in places could do with more power. Tassis Christoyannis's... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Special offer. Offenbach: La Vie parisienne
Marc Mauillon (soloist, baritone), Artavazd Sargsyan (soloist), Philippe Estèphe (soloist), Pierre Derhet (soloist), Véronique Gens (soloist, soprano), Carl Ghazarossian (soloist), Jérôme Boutillier (soloist), Sandrine Buendia (soloist), Anne-Catherine Gillet (soloist, soprano), Chœur de l’Opéra...
a meticulously prepared studio-made sound recording...it’s conducted with drive, effervescence and a complete mastery of Offenbach’s many detours in the byways of German, Austrian and Spanish... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Opera
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Special offer. Hérold: Le Pré Aux Clercs
Marie-Ève Munger, Marie Lenormand, Jeanne Crousaud, Michael Spyres, Éric Huchet & Christian Helmer
Coro e Orquestra Gulbenkian, Paul McChreesh
Hérold’s effervescent music is performed with tremendous charm by Paul McCreesh and the Gulbenkian Orchestra...Munger [is] in exquisite form, coloratura cascading like champagne...Ensembles... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2017, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Jules Massenet: Grisélidis
Vannina Santoni (Grisélidis), Julien Dran (Alain), Thomas Dolié (Le Marquis), Tassis Christoyannis (Le Diable), Adèle Charvet (Bertrade); Orchestre et Chœur Opéra national Montpellier Occitanie, Jean-Marie Zeitouni
The opera fuses comedy with sentiment and is shaped around the vocally and dramatically demanding title role. In this, soprano Vannina Santoni is especially well cast. Her timbre and articulation... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Opera
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Special offer. Saint-Saëns: Déjanire
Kate Aldrich (Déjanire), Anaïs Constans (Iole), Julien Dran (Hercule), Jérôme Boutillier (Philoctète), Anna Dowsley (Phénice)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Chœur de l’Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Kazuki Yamada
Here the principals are well up to its vocal and dramatic demands...Kate Aldrich's Déjanire is a great performance equalled in dramatic emphasis by Julien Dran's Hercule...The austere tragedy... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Premiere Recordings
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Special offer. Marie Jaëll: Musique symphonique & Musique pour piano
Collection Portraits Volume 3
David Bismuth (piano), Lidija & Sanja Bizjak (piano), Dana Ciocarlie (piano), Romain Descharmes (piano), Nicolas Stavy (piano), Chantal Santon-Jeffery (soprano) & David Violi (piano), Xavier Phillips (cello)
Orchestre national de Lille & Brussels Philharmonic, Joseph Swensen &...
The concertos, one for cello, two for piano, are somewhat in the vein of Saint-Saens - demanding, energetic, reasonably lyrical…the performances on this three-CD set are all attentive, loving... —
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Special offer. Gounod: Cinq-Mars
Mathias Vidal (Le Marquis de Cinq-Mars), Véronique Gens (La Princesse Marie de Gonzague), Tassis Christoyannis (Le Conseiller de Thou), Andrew Foster-Williams (Le Père Joseph), André Heyboer (Le Vicomte de Fontrailles), Norma Nahoun (Marion Delorme), Marie Lenormand (Ninon de L’Enclos, Un Berger),...
Extremely well performed by Ulf Schirmer and his Bavarian forces…Mathias Vidal has an ideal voice for this repertoire: slightly reedy, with a pleasing fast vibrato. Véronique Gens finds all... —
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Special offer. David, Félicien: Herculanum
Véronique Gens (Lilia), Karine Deshayes (Olympia), Edgaras Montvidas (Hélios), Nicolas Courjal (Nicanor / Satan), Julien Véronèse (Magnus)
Flemish Radio Choir & Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, Hervé Niquet
we would listen in vain for anything approaching Berlioz's or Verdi's individuality, but the music is competently written and the soloists, especially Nicolas Coujal doubling as two baddie baritones,... —
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Massenet: Songs With Orchestra – II
Julien Henric, Thomas Dolié (baritone), Hélène Guilmette, Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur, Bertrand Dubos, Orchestre de l'Opéra Normandie Rouen, Pierre Dumoussaud
All four singers - Bouchard-Lesieur, Hélène Guilmette, Julien Henric and Thomas Dolié - walk a line between extrovert operatic singing and the emotional intimacy that makes Massenet so lovable. —
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Christoyannis, in what is in many ways a tour de force, is for the most part exceptional throughout. Just occasionally the recording itself captures a pulse in his upper registers when under... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Male Singer of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Solo Vocal
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