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Special offer. Offenbach & Gulda: Cello Concertos
RecommendedEdgar Moreau (cello)
Orchestra Les Forces Majeures, Raphaël Merlin
Moreau is evidently a cellist of exceptional gifts with a vibrant directness of delivery, absolute security of tone and intonation in all registers and a concentrated intentness in his playing... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2019
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Concerto
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Special offer. Heggie: Great Scott
RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (Arden Scott), Ailyn Pérez (Tatyana Bakst), Frederica von Stade (Winnie Flato), Nathan Gunn (Sid Taylor), Anthony Roth Costanzo (Roane Heckle)
Orchestra and Chorus of The Dallas Opera, Patrick Summers
A cast full of leading American singers and impressive company forces under Patrick Summers give this amiable if slight entertainment a strong launch…Though there’s a good deal of audience noise... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Contemporary Classical Composition
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Special offer. Rossini - Colbran, the Muse
RecommendedOpera arias
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Lawrence Brownlee (tenor)
Orchestra dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Edoardo Muller
This is an artist who moves between registers with grace and skill, whose legato is seamless and whose tone is pearly. Indeed so creamy in 'D'amor al dolce impero', also from Armida, that you... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2009, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Recital
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Opera, February 2010, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Arias by Gounod and Massenet
RecommendedRolando Villazon (tenor), Natalie Dessay
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Evelino Pido
This is mostly well-planned and executed recital mixes favourites with extracts from operas that have remained rarities, even with the increased interest in late 19th-century repertory. It begins... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2005, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2005, Winner - Recital
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Special offer. Renaud Capuçon plays Three Modern Concertos
World Premiere performances & recordings
Renaud Capuçon (violin)
Wiener Symphoniker, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris, Philippe Jordan, Myung-Whun Chung
The more exciting music is often in the orchestra, but it’s a tribute to Capuçon’s skills that, like both of the other works it is completely under his skin —
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Contemporary
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2017, Winner - Musique Contemporaine
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Coming soon. Joyce & Tony
RecommendedLive at the Wigmore Hall
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano) & Antonio Pappano (piano)
both of these artists know how to deliver popular material with skill and grace...[in the Haydn] DiDonato's interpretative imagination matches Tony Pappano's thoughtful and pianistic approach...[Pappano]... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Solo Vocal
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Grammy Awards, 58th Awards (2015), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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International Classical Music Awards, 2016, Winner - Vocal Recital
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He delivers Bloch’s epic Schelomo with magnificent command, tracing its ark from lamentation to shrill anger back to resignation. Michael Sanderling and the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra bring... —
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Record Review, 22nd January 2022, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Special offer. Véronique Gens: Tragediennes 1 (French Operatic Tragedies)
Véronique Gens (soprano)
Ensemble les Talens Lyrique, Christophe Rousset
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2006, Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2006, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Invocation
Elsa Dreisig (soprano), Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova Orchestra, Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova Choir, Massimo Zanetti
Some of the lighter 'excerptable' numbers come off very well. Rusalka's Song to the Moon is floated well and Desdemona's Ave Maria is tender. French repertoire shows her voice off to best effect...Her... —
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Special offer. Handel: Messiah
RecommendedLucy Crowe (soprano), Alex Potter (countertenor), Michael Spyres (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), The English Concert & Choir, John Nelson
The theatrical instincts that have served Nelson so well in Berlioz ensure some detailed characterisation such as the semiquaver flurry of beating wings as the angels prepare to impart their... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd December 2023
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Choral Recording of the Year
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