Special offer. Britten: Les Illuminations
Karina Gauvin (soprano)
Les Violons du Roy, Jean-Marie Zeitouni
Awards:
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Building a Library, June 2015, First Choice
Gauvin is a seductive interpreter of [Les Illuminations]. Her glinting sound gives a diamantine shimmer to the heroic passages, yet she never sacrifices the essential warmth and sensuousness...
Special offer. Britten: Les Illuminations
Karina Gauvin (soprano)
Les Violons du Roy, Jean-Marie Zeitouni
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Awards:
-
Building a Library, June 2015, First Choice
Gauvin is a seductive interpreter of [Les Illuminations]. Her glinting sound gives a diamantine shimmer to the heroic passages, yet she never sacrifices the essential warmth and sensuousness...
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For this new recording of one of Britten’s most effective woks, soprano Karina Gauvin employs the full range of her expressive palette and great virtuosity. Her previous recordings have been well received; ”Her glinting soprano, bright-edged yet deliciously rounded and sensual…” The Times
Contents and tracklist
- Karina Gauvin (vocalist)
- Les Violons du Roy
- Jean-Marie Zeitouni
- Recorded: 2009-04-24
- Recording Venue: Salle Raoul-Jobin, Palais Montcalm, Québec
- Pascale Giguère (soloist)
- Les Violons du Roy
- Jean-Marie Zeitouni
- Recorded: 2009-04-24
- Recording Venue: Salle Raoul-Jobin, Palais Montcalm, Québec
- Pascale Giguère (soloist)
- Les Violons du Roy
- Jean-Marie Zeitouni
- Recorded: 2009-04-24
- Recording Venue: Salle Raoul-Jobin, Palais Montcalm, Québec
- Jean-Philippe Marsolais (soloist)
- Les Violons du Roy
- Jean-Marie Zeitouni
- Recorded: 2009-04-24
- Recording Venue: Salle Raoul-Jobin, Palais Montcalm, Québec
Awards and reviews
March 2011
Gauvin is a seductive interpreter of [Les Illuminations]. Her glinting sound gives a diamantine shimmer to the heroic passages, yet she never sacrifices the essential warmth and sensuousness of her voice. It's perfect for Britten's 'fire seen through ice' sound world which combines purity and passion in a particularly Gallic way.
