Debussy - Le Balcon
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The Bamberg musicians are too interested in the sheer, the precise and the subtle [in the Ravel] to stumble into cheap exoticism. The colours are sharp in Britten’s Quatre chansons françaises,... —
Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Record Review, 3rd June 2017, Recording of the Week
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Special offer. Invitation Au Voyage
Melodies by Duparc, Jacques de le Presle, Debussy, Hahn & Boulanger
Stéphanie d’Oustrac (mezzo-soprano) & Pascal Jourdan (piano)
d'Oustrac has a warm, flexible mezzo voice which rises us easily as far as top Gs and which she can float to great effect. Like many French female singers of the past, she has a fastish vibrato...Jourdan's... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Editor's Choice
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[Dove’s music] takes Debussy as its starting point, before heading into more contemporary musical worlds. And it’s difficult to imagine it much better performed than here. Essentially the emotional... —
