Poulenc - La grenouillère, Op. 5
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The beauty of Alice Coote’s mezzo-soprano glows with radiance. —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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Poulenc: The Complete Songs
Graham Johnson (piano), Ailish Tynan (soprano), Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Geraldine McGreevy (soprano), Pierre Bernac (narrator), Ben Johnson (tenor), Sarah Fox (soprano), Christopher Maltman (baritone), Ivan Ludlow (baritone), Brandon Velarde (baritone), Robin Tritschler (tenor), Robin Tritschler...
The greatest hero of the set remains Graham Johnson himself. As well as writing the booklet notes and organising the whole adventure, Johnson proves himself to be the most sensitive and accomplished... —
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Special offer. Les chemins de l'amour - Songs By Duparc, Ravel, Poulenc & Satie
Jessye Norman (soprano), Dalton Baldwin (piano)
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The Complete Songs of Francis Poulenc Volume 3
Lorna Anderson, Sarah Fox, Lisa Milne (sopranos), Ann Murray (mezzo), Robert Murray, John Mark Ainsley (tenors), Thomas Oliemans (baritone), Jonathan Lemalu (bass baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Martineau's apparently limitless wisdom about the musicians, the music, and indeed the piano continues at full stretch. The uneasy postlude to 'Voyage', frmo Calligrammes, makes for one of his... —
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Poulenc: Songs after Poems of Guillame Apollinaire
Holger Falk (baritone), Alessandro Zuppardo (piano)
Right from the aplomb with which he negotiates an unintentionally ironic phrase seconds after the start - it translates as 'If by misfortune I had been German' - he has the agile lightness of... —
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The other find of the evening was Carlo Colombara, a bass making his New York debut as Mocenigo. Mr. Colombara's sound is deep and rounded, and he projected Mocenigo's malign character powerfully... —
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Else Paaske: Live and Studio Recordings 1967-1983
Else Paaske (alto), Anders Ribers (organ), Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Helmuth Rilling, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
