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This is genuinely revelatory stuff. Nigl is passionate about bucking the trend for performing Lieder in large venues, with modern concert-grands and quasi-operatic delivery, and for long stretches... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2023
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These beautifully sculpted performances present a perspective on Bach which is committed to beauty of sound...but allied to a structural coherence which combines elegance and grip...this outstandingly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2011, Editor's Choice
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[Mameli] provides an object lesson in how vocal precision need not inhibit passionate commitment. Her clarity and response to the texts is exceptional: the first phrase of Caccini’s Dolcissimo... —
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Diapason d’Or, December 2017, Nouveauté
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Schumann - Piano Works & Chamber Music III
Eric Le Sage (piano), François Leleux (oboe), Bruno Schneider (horn), Paul Meyer (clarinet), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Jean Guihen Queyras (cello) & Gordan Nikolic (violin)
All in all, an ideal introduction to the world of late Schumann —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2008, Chamber Choice
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If, like me, you’re a fan of Naouri’s handsome, imposing portraits of operatic villains, the soft-focus delights of this beautifully intimate recital of French song might take you a little by... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2020
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Pierre Henry: La Dixième Symphonie - Hommage à Beethoven
Bruno Mantovani, Marzena Diakun, Benoît Rameau, Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris, Jeune Chœur de Paris, Chœur de Radio France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Pascal Rophé
This fascinating, or bizarre, disc is not another realisation of Beethoven’s sketches for a Tenth Symphony, but a collage-compilation in eight movements...Henry, cofounder of musique concrète,... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Diapason d’Or, September 2019, Réédition
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the musical journey is compelling...Only an arrangement for strings of Lotti’s most famous Crucifixus feels like a misstep in an otherwise ingeniously plotted project delivered with panache... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Female Singer of the Year
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Lesser-known French Romantic repertoire is brought to shimmering light thanks to Behr’s honeyed vocals and the luxuriant accompaniment. —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Perhaps the most revealing examples of Frisch’s finger independence and bracing articulation can be found in the uncommonly clear interplay of voices in the C sharp major Prelude and in the... —
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Diapason d’Or, May 2019
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