Summer Opera - up to 40% off selected titles
We're delighted to offer a more affordable way to begin or continue your opera journey, with up to 40% off selected titles on CD, SACD, Vinyl, DVD and Blu-ray, until 12th August. Please note, downloads are not included in this offer.
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Special offer. Massenet: Ariane
Amina Edris (Ariane), Kate Aldrich (Phèdre), Jean-François Borras (Thésée), Jean-Sébastien Bou (Pirithoüs), Julie Robard-Gendre (Perséphone), Munich Radio Orchestra, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Laurent Campellone
Campellone undoubtedly believes in Massenet ’s score, coaxing f ine playing from the Munich Radio Orchestra, particularly the woodwinds. It is unmistakably Massenet, replete with rich orchestral... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Winner - Premiere Recordings
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Young Talent of the Year (Amina Edris)
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3 CDs + Book
Original price ($44.00) Reduced price $35.20Downloads
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Special offer. Gounod: Cantates et Musique Sacrée
Collection Prix de Rome Vol. 6
Brussels Philharmonic, Flemish Radio Choir, Hervé Niquet
The choral singing has wonderful richness, clarity and fervour, above all in the Messe vocale, which is breathtaking. A tremendous set, it adds immeasurably to our understanding of Gounod’s... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2018
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Choral
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2 CDs + book
Original price ($42.00) Reduced price $33.60Downloads
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Special offer. Édouard Lalo: Le Roi d’Ys
Judith van Wanroij (Rozenn), Kate Aldrich (Margared), Cyrille Dubois (Mylio), Jérôme Boutillier (Karnak), Nicolas Courjal (Le Roi d’Ys), Christian Helmer (Saint Corentin/Jahel)
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Hungarian National Choir, György Vashegyi
Overall, the result is a decent enough account of a worthwhile, well-composed piece that maintains musical and dramatic interest throughout – though some of the principal vocal performances... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Opera
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Special offer. Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide
Judith van Wanroij (Iphigénie), Stéphanie d'Oustrac (Clytemnestre), Tassis Christoyannis (Agamemnon), Cyrille Dubois (Achille), Jean-Sébastien Bou (Calchas); Le Concert de La Loge, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles Julien Chauvin
for their mingled musical insight and unflinching dramatic intensity, Chauvin and his superb forces now become the prime recommendation for what is arguably the most unjustly neglected opera... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Opera
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Special offer. Salieri: Les Danaides
Judith van Wanroij (Hypermnestre), Philippe Talbot (Lyncée), Tassis Christoyannis (Danaüs), Katia Velletaz (Plancippe) & Thomas Dolié (Pélagus / Officiers)
Les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles & Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
Les Talens Lyriques reveals the baleful splendours of Salieri's writing under Christophe Rousset. Judith van Wanroij's Hymnestre is fesity but in places could do with more power. Tassis Christoyannis's... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Book + 2 CDs
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Special offer. André Cardinal Destouches: Issé
Etienne Bazola (baritone), Matthieu Lecroart, Mathias Vidal (tenor), Judith van Wanroij (soprano), Chantal Santon Jeffery (soprano), Thomas Dolié (baritone), Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas, Eugénie Lefebvre, Les chantres du centre de musique baroque de Versailles, Louis-Noël Bestion de, Ensemble...
I can have nothing but praise for the performance here. The ensemble and soloists are all first-rate, and their sensitive and lively interpretations of Destouches music are spot on. The instrumental... —
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Diapason d’Or, December 2019, Découverte
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Special offer. César Franck: Hulda
Jennifer Holloway, Judith van Wanroij, François Rougier, Véronique Gens, Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Gergely Madaras
Jennifer Holloway is magnificent in the immense title-role here, if occasionally steely in tone, marvellously alert to the text...and superb in her delineation of Hulda’s transformation from... —
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International Opera Awards, 2023, Nomianted - Recording (Complete Opera)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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3 CDs + Book
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Special offer. Saint-Saëns: La princesse jaune
Mathias Vidal, Judith van Wanroij, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Leo Hussain
Judith van Wanroij is a forthright Lena with a gift for soft singing, though at full voice she sometimes sounds strained. Mathias Vidal as her Japaneseobsessed young man sounds every centimetre... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Premiere Recording
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Special offer. Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne: Phèdre
Judith van Wanroij (Phèdre), Julien Behr (Hippolyte), Tassis Christoyannis (Thésée), Melody Louledjian (Œnone), Jérôme Boutillier (Un Grand de l’État/Un Chasseur), Ludivine Gombert (La Grande Prêtresse), Orfeo Orchestra, Purcell Choir, György Vashegyi
Lemoyne demonstrates impressive integrity as a musical dramatist…The central performances all stand up to scrutiny. Judith van Wanroij’s Phèdre hones in on the text, its meaning carefully embedded... —
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Original price ($41.00) Reduced price $32.80Downloads
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Special offer. Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
Malena Ernman (Dido), Christopher Maltman (Aeneas), Judith Van Wanroij (Belinda), Hilary Summers (Sorceress), Lina Markeby (Second Woman), Celine Ricci (First Witch), Ana Quintans (Second Witch), Marc Mauillon (Spirit), Damian Whiteley (Sailor), Prologie (Fiona Shaw), Les Arts Florissants, William...
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Opera
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