Naxos
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Rossini: Adina
César Arrieta, Shi Zong, Emmanuel Franco, Aaron Godfrey-Mayes, Gianluca Ascheri, Sara Blanch (soprano), Kraków Philharmonic Chorus, Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra, Luciano Acocella
César Arrieta (Selimo) boasts the light, bright tone and easy agility that is needed for a Rossini hero and he is perfectly paired here with the Spanish soprano Sara Blanch, an Adina of great... —
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From The Jewels of the Madonna to Il campiello, Wolf-Ferrari was up there with his Italian contemporaries Puccini and Mascagni when it came to writing music that simply basks in the glow of... —
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The guitar theoretically takes the solo spotlight, but all of the various instruments in these characterful chamber works enjoy near-equal billing. Though much of it is of a sunny disposition,... —
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Special offer. Wagner: Die Walküre
RecommendedMatthias Goerne (Wotan), Petra Lang (Brünnhilde), Michelle DeYoung (Fricka), Stuart Skelton (Siegmund), Heidi Melton (Sieglinde), Falk Struckmann (Hunding), Sarah Castle (Waltraute), Karen Foster (Gerhilde), Katherine Broderick (Helmwige), Anna Burford (Schwertleite), Elaine McKrill (Ortlinde), Aurhelia...
Drawing airy, luminescent textures from the Hong Kong players, [van Zweden] drives the drama excitingly [and] his singers respond superbly…Goerne brings Wotan’s fearful conflicts of love and... —
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th November 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, Opera Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Poulenc: Les Biches - Suite, Les Animaux modèles - Suite & Sinfonietta
RTE National Symphony Orchestra, Jean-Luc Tingaud
Crikey, this is good: the zingiest, most pungent performance imaginable of the suite from Poulenc's ballet Les Biches…I've never heard this music sound so joyful, so gleefully irreverent, with... —
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There's vintage Copland here, and Leonard Slatkin is a persuasive advocate; but the full-size string section of the Detroit Symphony occasionally swamps details...this is an enjoyable programme;... —
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Matthew Schellhorn's devotion to the cause…. Sensitive artistry, too, in phrasing, dynamics and subtleties of touch. … The terse and tensile musings of the 15-minute Sonatina for Piano of 1971,... —
