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. Lully: Atys
Mathias Vidal (Atys), Véronique Gens (Cybèle), Sandrine Piau (Sangaride), Tassis Christoyannis (Célénus) et al, Les Ambassadeurs ~ La Grande Écurie, Alexis Kossenko
Solo singers are handpicked for their likely vocal similarities to performers at the 1676 premiere. Véronique Gens (who was a deity on Christie's recording) is outstanding as Cybéle...If you... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2026, Opera Choice
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Special offer. Rameau: Les Indes Galantes
Ana Quintans (soprano), Julie Roset (soprano), Emmanuelle de Negri (soprano), Mathias Vidal (tenor), Alexandre Duhamel (baritone), Guillaume Andrieux (baritone), Edwin Crossley-Mercer (bass-baritone), La Chapelle Harmonique, Valentin Tournet
With the extra music for Amour in the Prologue, this is a welcome complement to the Budapest recording (with mostly French soloists) conducted by György Vashegyi. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Rameau: Zoroastre 1749
Jodie Devos (Amélite), Véronique Gens (Erinice), Reinoud Van Mechelen (Zoroastre), Tassis Christoyannis (Abramane)
Les Ambassadeurs, La Grande Écurie, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Alexis Kossenko
The chorus and line-up of soloists is first-rate, with a suitably menacing Abramane (Tassis Christoyannis) and a witchy Érinice (Véronique Gens)...The instrumental numbers (notably the sarabands)... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Opera
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Special offer. Lully: Persée 1770
Mathias Vidal, Hélène Guilmette, Katherine Watson, Tassis Christoyannis, Jean Teitgen, Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Marie Lenormand, Cyrille Dubois, Marie Kalinine, Thomas Dolié, Zachary Wilder
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Hervé Niquet’s musical direction is admirably fluent. The orchestral playing and choral singing are magnificent throughout in a suitably resonant recording…Katherine Watson as Mérope stands... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2017
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Record Review, 25th March 2017, Recording of the Week
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The direction of Patrick Bismuth is secure and well balanced, and the instrumental accompaniment is precise and clear. The voices all blend well, and the chorus has fine diction. This is one... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Charles Lecocq: La fille de Madame Angot
RecommendedAnne-Catherine Gillet (soloist), Mathias Vidal (soloist), Matthieu Lécroart (soloist), Artavazd Sargsyan (soloist), Antoine Philippot (soloist), Ingrid Perruche (soloist), David Witczak (soloist), Flannan Obé (actor), Véronique Gens (soloist), Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Chœur du Concert Spirituel,...
This is a an absolutely sparkling reading of a rarely performed operetta. Beautifully conducted and idiomatically led, this is another win for Palazzetto Bru Zane. The sound is detailed and... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Original price ($41.00) Reduced price $32.80Downloads
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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. Rameau & Bailleux: Pigmalion
Mathias Vidal (tenor), Laura Jarrell (soprano), Louise Bourgeat-Roulleau (soprano), Catherine Trottmann (soprano), Apolline Raï-Westphal (soprano),
Ensemble Il Caravaggio, Chœur de l'Opéra Royal, Camille Delaforge
As one would expect in an operaballet, Pigmalion is rich in dance rhythms and ballet sequences. Camille Delaforge and her ensemble Il Caravaggio inject these with energy and bounce. —
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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. Saint-Saëns: Proserpine
Véronique Gens (Proserpine), Marie-Adeline Henry (Angiola), Frédéric Antoun (Sabatino), Andrew Foster-Williams (Squarocca), Jean Teitgen (Renzo)
Munchner Rundfunkorchester, Flemish Radio Choir, Ulf Schirmer
Frédéric Antoun is a bright, not exactly nuanced Sabatino and Jean Teitgen a warm and sympathetic Renzo, but the main prize goes to Véronique Gens for her utterly superb singing of the title... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2018, Winner - Opera
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Original price ($42.00) Reduced price $33.60Downloads
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