Decca
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Honegger & Ibert: L'Aiglon
Anne-Catherine Gillet, Hélène Guilmette, Tyler Duncan, Étienne Dupuis, Marc Barrard, Philippe Sly, Julie Boulianne, Isaiah Bell, Pascal Charbonneau, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Kimy McLaren
Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Kent Nagano
Conducted with care and palpable affection by Kent Nagano, [this release] boasts a fine, mostly francophone ensemble cast, with not a weak link anywhere. At its centre…is Anne-Catherine Gillet’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2016, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2016, Winner - Première au Disque
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Opera, July 2016, Recording of the Month
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Contrabandista
Javier Camarena (tenor), Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Les Musiciens du Prince, Gianluca Capuano
Things bode well when you shout ‘Bravo!’ at the hi-fi speakers at the end of the first track…The amiable Mexican throws himself into this repertoire with abandon, greedily lapping up the florid... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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International Opera Awards, 2019, Nominated - Recital Album
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British Music Collection - Britten & Walton
RecommendedPeter Pears (tenor), Dennis Brain (horn), Edith Sitwell (narrator)
Boyd Neel String Orchestra, English Opera Group Ensemble, Benjamin Britten, Anthony Collins
This disc includes one of the great highlights of the whole Britten discography, that first magical recording of the Serenade, with Pears in fresh, youthful voice and Dennis Brain's marvellous... —
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Building a Library, November 1999, Historic Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Liszt: Piano Concerto Nos.1 & 2
RecommendedJean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Charles Dutoit
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Building A Library, March 2025, Recommended Recording
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Alfred Brendel: Live in Vienna
RecommendedAlfred Brendel (piano)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle
This [the Brahms] is playing of tremendous incisiveness, highly energetic in both physical and intellectual terms. Brendel traces a powerful thread of development and logic through the set’s... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th March 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2018, Re-issue/Archive of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Jonas Kaufmann - Romantic Arias
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Marco Armiliato
This is an exciting disc, for it shows that at long last there is a German tenor whose voice is rich and warm enough to encompass the Romantic Italian reportoire, while being as much at home... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Recital
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2008, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2009
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Amuse-Bouche
RecommendedFrench Choral Delicacies
Anna Markland (piano)
I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth
As pianist and singer, Markland offers the most idiomatic performance. She plays Satie’s Gnossiennes 4, 5 and 6 beautifully and sings the top line of Milhaud’s Deux Poèmes and Poulenc’s Un soir... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Choral
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Rossini - Heroes and Heroines
RecommendedThe Spectacular Voice of Marilyn Horne
Marilyn Horne (mezzo)
Suisse Romande Orchestra and Royal Opera House Orchestra, Henry Lewis
Horne seems born to sing this repertoire: her combination of agility and dramatic heft yield thrilling results in male and female roles alike on this collection. —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Bychkov’s Russian roots make him mindful of Tchaikovsky’s classicism, the emotion always ‘contained’ until it can be contained no more. The explosive development section is a controlled panic... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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they are substantial pieces in their own right, and they emerge irresistable thanks to the easy flow of Chailly's conducting and the superb playing of his orchestra...Chailly and his orchestra... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd February 2015
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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