Gounod - Faust
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Gounod: Faust
Recommended1859 version
Benjamin Bernheim (Faust), Véronique Gens (Marguerite), Andrew Foster-Williams (Méphistophélès), Jean-Sébastien Bou (Valentin), Juliette Mars (Siebel), Ingrid Perruche (Marthe), Anas Séguin (Wagner/Un mendiant)
Les Talens Lyriques, Flemish Radio Choir, Christophe Rousset
Tenor Benjamin Bernheim is a superb Faust, with a bright and lovely lyric voice that is also comfortable in the lower tessitura of act I. As Marguerite, soprano Véronique Gens is an ideal romantic... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Opera
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International Opera Awards, 2020, Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year (Gens)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Winner - Opera (19th-century)
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Opera
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RecommendedJerry Hadley (Faust), Cecilia Gasdia (Marguerite), Samuel Ramey (Méphistophélès), Susanne Mentzer (Siébel), Alexandru Agache (Valentin), Brigitte Fassbaender (Marthe), Philippe Fourcade (Wagner)
Welsh National Opera Chorus & Orchestra, Carlo Rizzi
Rizzi with an outstanding cast and vividly clear record, makes the whole score seem totally fresh and few. Jerry Hadley has lyrical freshness rather than heroic power...and, like Rizzi's conducting,... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Piotr Beczala (Faust), Luca Pisaroni (Méphistophélès), Marina Rebeka (Marguerite), Stéphane Degout (Valentin), Isaac Galán (Wagner), Serena Malfi (Siebel), Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo (Marthe)
Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Real Madrid, Dan Ettinger, Àlex Ollé
The most stylish and idiomatic singing comes from Stéphane Degout's Valentin, brimming with conviction whatever this show throws at him. —
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RecommendedRoger Bourdin, Georges Nore, Roger Rico
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, Thomas Beecham
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Building a Library, April 2005, Historic Choice
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Gounod: Faust
Cheryl Studer (Marguerite), José van Dam (Méphistophélès), Thomas Hampson (Valentin), Martine Mahé (Siébel), Nadine Denize (Marthe), Marc Barrard (Wagner)
Toulouse Orchestra, Michel Plasson
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Joan Sutherland: The Operas 1959-1970
Joan Sutherland (soprano), Richard Bonynge, John Pritchard, Ferdinand Leitner, Adrian Boult, Nino Sanzogno
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Four-act version
Jussi Björling (Faust), Elisabeth Söderström (Marguerite), Cesare Siepi (Méphistophélès), Robert Merrill (Valentin), Mildred Miller (Siébel), Thelma Votipka (Marthe), Roald Reitan (Wagner)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Jean Morel
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Gianni Poggi, Raffaele Arie, Marcella Pobbe, Ettore Bastianini & Anna Maria Capel
Orchestra & Chorus of the San Carlo Theatre, Naples, Gabriele Santini
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Giuliano Romagnoli (Faust), Gemma Bosini (Margherita), Fernando Autori (Mefistofele), Gilda Timitz (Siebel), Napoleone Limonta (Wagner), Adolfo Pacini (Valentino) & Nelda Garrone (Marta)
La Scala Milan Chorus & Orchestra, Carlo Sabajno
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Sung in Italian
Renata Scotto (Marguerite), Eugenio Fernandi (Faust), Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (Méphistophélès) & Gian Giacomo Guelfi (Valentin), Clara Betner (Siebel), Anna Maria Anelli (Martha), Vincenzo Preziosa (Wagner)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della Rai, Armando La Rosa Parodi
