Berlioz - Benvenuto Cellini
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Special offer. Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
Gregory Kunde (Cellini), Laura Claycomb (Teresa), Darren Jeffery (Balducci), Andrew Kennedy (Francesco), Isabelle Cals (Ascanio), John Relyea (Pope Clement VII), Peter Coleman-Wright (Fieramosca), Jacques Imbrailo (Pompeo)
London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
The combination of technology and the conductor's unimpaired élanmakes for glowing textures and shattering climaxes. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2008, Editor's Choice
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Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
Gregory Kunde (Benvenuto Cellini), Patrizia Ciofi (Teresa), Joyce DiDonato (Ascanio), Jean-Francois Lapointe (Fieramosca), Laurent Naouri (Balducci), Renaud Delaigue (Le Pape), Eeic Salha (Francesco)
Orchestre National De France/Choeur De Radio France, John Nelson
Thanks to to Hugh Macdonald's brilliant work for the New Berlioz Edition the 1838 Paris Opéra version of Benvenuto Cellini is once again performable; this adds almost half an hour's music to... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2005, Finalist - Opera
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Special offer. Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
RecommendedNicolai Gedda, Jules Bastin, Robert Massard, Roger Soyer, Derk Blackwell, Robert Lloyd
Chorus of the Royal Opera House, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
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Grammy Awards, 15th Awards (1972), Best Opera Recording
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Special offer. Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
Bruce Ford (Cellini), Laura Claycomb (Teresa), Franz Hawlata (Bass), Monica Groop (Ascanio), Christopher Maltman (Fieramosca), Ralf Lukas (Cardinal Salviati), Johannes Chum (Francesco), Reinhard Mayr (Bernadino), Ekkehard Wagner (Cabaretier), Matthias Hoffmann (Pompeo)
MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig,...
This recording…is ablaze. …Bruce Ford…can do both amorous and heroic, and blends well with Laura Claycomb's spirited Teresa. The outstanding characterisation is Monica Groop's Ascanio, a splendidly... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, Opera Choice
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Special offer. Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
Michael Spyres, Sophia Burgos, Maurizio Muraro, Tareq Nazmi, Adèle Charvet
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
The orchestra plays superbly throughout, once again underscoring the advantage of employing period instruments to reveal Berlioz’s glittering, brilliant orchestration in all its full glory…[Spyres... —
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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: Benvenuto Cellini
Franco Bonisolli (Benvenuto Cellini), Teresa Zylis-Gara (Teresa), Wolfgang Brendel (Fieramosca), Robert Amis El Hage (Le Pape Clément VII), Gino Sinimberghi (Francesco), James Loomis (Bernadino), Tommaso Frascati (Pompeo), Fernandino Jacopucci (Cabaretier), Elisabeth Steiner (Ascanio)
RAI Roma,...
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Fritz Uhl (Cellini), Otto Wiener (Balducci), Edith Kermer (Teresa), Leo Heppe (Cardinal Salviati), Barbara With (Ascanio) & Gerhard Brichta (Fieramosca)
Vienna Radio Orchestra, Kurt Tenner
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Special offer. Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
John Osborn (Benvenuto Cellini), Mariangela Sicilia (Teresa), Maurizio Muraro (Balducci), Michèle Losier (Ascanio), Laurent Naouri (Fieramosca), Orlin Anastassov (Le Pape Clément VII)
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder, Terry Gilliam
Elder conducts a thrillingly vibrant and entirely idiomatic account…Gilliam’s extraordinary eye for visual fantasy, cartoonish comedy and endless japes, meanwhile, matches the music surprisingly... —
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Special offer. Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
Burkhard Fritz, Maija Kovalevska, Laurent Naouri, Brindley Sherratt, Mikhail Petrenko & Kate Aldrich
Wiener Philharmoniker & Konzertvereinigung Weiner Staatsopernchor, Valery Gergiev
