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Special offer. La Comédie Humaine: Chansons balzaciennes
Lucile Richardot (soloist), Cyrille Dubois (soloist), Jérôme Varnier (soloist), Arnaud Marzorati (soloist), Les Lunaisiens
It’s an album of barbed wit, political anger and deep social awareness that actually works wonderfully well in its own right. But it also sends you back to Balzac, wanting to read him again. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Special offer. Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Pelléas), Chiara Skerath (Mélisande), Alexandre Duhamel (Golaud), Janina Baechle (Geneviève), Jérôme Varnier (Arkel), Maëlig Querré (Yniold), Damian Pass (Doctor/Shepherd)
Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Chœur de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux, Pierre Dumoussaud,...
It’s very beautiful and there is some fine and idiomatic playing, notably from the brass and woodwinds. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
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Mozart: Complete Works for Clarinet, Vol. 1
RecommendedNicolas Baldeyrou, Alexandre Chabod, Gabriel Pidoux, Hélène Devilleneuve, David Douçot, Thomas Quinquenel, David Guerrier, Hugues Viallon, Yann Dubost, Franck Amet, François Miquel, Antoine Dreyfuss, Anne Broussard
Baldeyrou’s soft, bosky tone is a constant joy; Pidoux’s oboe has a citrussy tang, distinctive though not perhaps to all tastes. Both feature the occasional graceful ornamentation on repeats... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Motets romantiques
Yann Dubost, Anaïs Gaudemard, Lucile Dollat, Christophe Grapperon, Judith van Wanroij (soprano), Isabelle Druet (mezzo-soprano), Thomas Dolié (baritone), Manon Galy (violin), Cyrille Dubois (tenor), Chœur de Radio France, Victor Julien-Laferrière
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Choral
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J. S. Bach: Mein Geist
Alexander Chance (countertenor), Benoît Arnould, Céline Sheen, Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Julien Barre, Le Banquet Céleste
It is altogether a delightful essay in intimacy, refinement and teamwork, qualities which abound in this thoughtful and contemplative Bach journey. —
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[Gent's] Her gently inflected phrasing, effective tempo and poetically uttered solo line are rewarding...Ensemble Masques savour their frequent suspensions and simple melodic contours and Olivier... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Beethoven: Complete Works for Piano and Violoncello
Alexander Lonquich (piano), Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)
Like Altstaedt, Lonquich has a strong style as a performer, and he gets a powerful sound, offsetting but not entirely erasing the fortepiano’s feathery attacks. The Variations on Handel’s See,... —
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In both suites he communicates with assurance the sequence of dances which follow the preludes though, partly no doubt through force of habit, I found myself every now and again yearning for... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2018, Editor's Choice
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With consistently alert, finely nuanced playing from the period forces (including superb wind principals), this latest addition to Antonini’s Haydn odyssey is self-recommending. —
