Berlioz - Les Troyens
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
RecommendedBen Heppner (Enée), Michelle DeYoung (Didon), Petra Lang (Cassandre), Sara Mingardo (Anna), Peter Mattei (Chorèbe), Stephen Milling (Narbal), Kenneth Tarver (Iopas), Toby Spence (Hylas), Alan Ewing (Priam), Guang Yang (Hécube), Isabelle Cals (Ascagne), Tigran Martirossian (Panthée), Bülent Bezdüz...
So what's so special about the performance? Try Canadian tenor Ben Heppner, outdoing his fellow countryman Jon Vickers on Sir Colin's first recording of Les Troyens. The other principals are... —
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Building a Library, November 2012, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2001, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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RecommendedJon Vickers (Enée), Josephine Veasey (Didon), Berit Lindholm (Cassandre), Peter Glossop (Chorèbe, Le spectre de Chorèbe), Pierre Thau (Priam, Un soldat troyen, Mercure), Anthony Raffell (Panthée), David Lennox (Helenus), Anne Howells (Ascagne), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Hécube, Le spectre de Cassandre),...
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Grammy Awards, 13th Awards (1970), Best Opera Recording
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Grammy Awards, 13th Awards (1970), Classical Album of the Year
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
Petra Lang (mezzo-soprano), Peter Mattei (baritone), Aeneas, Alan Ewing, Tigran Martirossian, Ben Heppner (tenor), Bülent Bezdüz, Isabelle Cals, Guang Yang, Orlin Anastassov, Mark Stone (baritone), Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Kenneth Tarver (tenor), Stephen Milling...
In this live account Colin Davis, as ever, proves a potent interpreter of Berlioz’s masterpiece. —
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Special offer. Berlioz: Les Troyens
RecommendedBryan Hymel (Énée), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Didon), Anna Caterina Antonacci (Cassandre), Fabio Capitanucci (Chorebe), Hanna Hipp (Anna), Brindley Sherratt (Narbal), Ed Lyon (Hylas), Ji-min Park (Iopas)
Royal Opera House, Sir Antonio Pappano, Sir David McVicar
It's powerful in all senses, not least Antonio Pappano's conducting, which is dramatically hard-driven but not without atmosphere, making the love music luminously sensuous...The huge cast is... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th October 2013
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, DVD Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Opera
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Special offer. Sir Colin Davis Anthology
Limited Edition of 5000
Ben Heppner (Enée), Michelle DeYoung (Didon), Petra Lang (Cassandre), Sara Mingardo (Anna), Peter Mattei (Chorèbe), Stephen Milling (Narbal), Kenneth Tarver (Iopas), Toby Spence (Hylas), Alan Ewing (Priam)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
despite the film’s scrappy construction music and man emerge loud and clear. A “reluctant king” is Sir David Attenborough’s description. His baton, Mitsuko Uchida, the pianist, crisply says,... —
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
RecommendedGary Lakes (Enée), Françoise Pollet (Didon), Gino Quilico (Chorèbe), Deborah Voigt (Cassandre), Michel Philippe (Panthée), Hélène Perraguin (Anna), Jean-Philippe Courtis (Narbale), Catherine Dubosc (Ascagne), John Mark Ainsley (Hylas), René Schirrer (Priam), Claudine Carlson (Hécube), Jean-Luc Maurette...
This is a thrilling set to have one marvelling afresh at the electric vitality of Berlioz's inspiration, and marvelling too that the formidable problems of recording so massive a work have been... —
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Grammy Awards, 38th Awards (1995), Best Opera Recording
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
RecommendedSung in English
Blanche Thebom (Didon), Jon Vickers (Enée), Amy Shuard (Cassandre), Jess Walters (Chorèbe), Lauris Elms (Anna), David Kelly (Narbal), Michael Langdon (Panthée), Joan Carlyle (Ascagne), Richard Verreau (Iopas), Forbes Robinson (Priam), Noreen Berry (Hécube), Dermot Troy (Hylas), Joseph Rouleau (L'Ombre...
It is difficult not to approach this historic broadcast without some feeling of awe. …Amy Shuard as Cassandra… was on the threshold of her international career… Blanche Thebom, as Dido, does... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Historic Archive
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Berlioz Odyssey
RecommendedThe Complete Sir Colin Davis Recordings
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
Davis was seemingly Berlioz’s disciple on earth, and this was the glorious late flowering of his love for the composer…Les Troyens crackles with a theatricality that outshines even the pioneering... —Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Best Collection
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Building A Library, November 2025, Recommended Recording (Harold en Italie)
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Berlioz: Highlights from The Trojans
Toby Spence, Petra Lang, Leigh Melrose, Ben Heppner, Isabelle Cals, Roderick Earle, Kenneth Tarver, Sara Mingardo, Andrew Greenan, Stephen Milling, Michelle DeYoung, London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Sir Colin Davis
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
Bryan Hymel (Énée), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Didon), Anna Caterina Antonacci (Cassandre), Fabio Capitanucci (Chorebe), Hanna Hipp (Anna), Brindley Sherratt (Narbal), Ed Lyon (Hylas), Ji-min Park (Iopas)
Royal Opera House, Sir Antonio Pappano, Sir David McVicar
It's powerful in all senses, not least Antonio Pappano's conducting, which is dramatically hard-driven but not without atmosphere, making the love music luminously sensuous...The huge cast is... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, DVD/Blu-ray Choice
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