BBC Music Magazine Awards, Classical (era)
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Baritenor
RecommendedMichael Spyres (baritenor), Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Marko Letonja
Spyres has a remarkable range and is a consummate vocal chameleon too...in a truly remarkable finale to his ‘Largo al factotum’, Rossini’s Figaro is indeed all things to all men vocally. What... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th September 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, Recording of the Month
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Diapason d’Or, October 2021, Nouveauté
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Opera, December 2021, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Vocal
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2021
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Voice & Ensemble
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Joyce DiDonato: Stella di Napoli
RecommendedBel Canto Arias
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Lyon, Riccardo Minasi
everyone who cares about singing should promote it immediately to the top of their letters to Santa. Creamy, sumptuous, almost flawless - every adjective may be a cliché, but how else to describe... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th August 2014
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2015, Vocal Award Winner
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2014, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Recital
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2014, Récital lyrique
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Winner - Vocal Recital
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Mozart: Die Singspiele (The Magic Flute & The Abduction from the Seraglio)
RecommendedAkademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs, RIAS Kammerchor
This is a total experience, perfectly tailored for private listening. René Jacobs thinks of it as a Hörspiel: it's a play to be heard - I don't know a recorded Zauberflöte more thrillingly alive... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th September 2010
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Building a Library, November 2010, Recommended Recording (Die Zauberflöte)
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year (Die Zauberflöte)
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Opera (Die Zauberflöte)
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, Opera Choice (Die Zauberflöte)
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year (Die Zauberflöte)
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010, Editor's Choice (Die Zauberflöte)
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015, (Die Entführung)
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Winner - Opera (Die Zauberflöte)
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[Degout] possesses the rare facility to mix raw muscle with the subtlest caresses…In the infernal symphonies that pepper Enfers, the band attacks the score with an almost fiendish ferocity…Don’t... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2018, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 24th February 2018, Recording of the Week
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Vocal
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International Opera Awards, 2019, Winner - Recital Album
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Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
RecommendedNatalie Dessay (Marie), Juan Diego Flórez (Tonio), Felicity Palmer (La Marquise de Birkenfeld), Alessandro Corbelli (Sulpice), Donald Maxwell (Hortensius), Dawn French (La Duchesse de Crackentorp)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Bruno Campanella
Laurent Pelly's production of Donizetti's opéra comique was one of the highlights of the Royal Opera's 2006-7 season, and viewing this well-produced DVD of the show it's perfectly obvious why.... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - DVD
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2008, DVD Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, DVD of the Year
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Donizetti: Linda di Chamounix
Eglise Gutiérrez (Linda), Ludovic Tézier (Antonio), Stephen Costello (Carlo), Marianna Pizzolato (Pierotto), Alessandro Corbelli (Marchese de Boisfleury), Bálint Szabó, Elizabeth Sikora (Maddalena), Luciano Botelho (Intendant)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir...
[Elder] infuses the whole performance with conviction, right from the rather impressive overture...All the singers are up to their roles, and the playing of the orchestra is bold; even the most... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Opera Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2011, Editor's Choice
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Opera, August 2011, Recording of the Month
3 CDs
$43.00Downloads
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
RecommendedDaniel Behle (Tamino), Marlis Petersen (Pamina), Daniel Schmutzhard (Papageno), Sunhae Im (Papagena), Anna-Kristiina Kaappola (Königin der Nacht), Marcos Fink (Sarastro), Kurt Azesberger (Monostatos)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs
...this is a total experience, perfectly tailored for private listening. René Jacobs thinks of it as a Hörspiel: it's a play to be heard - I don't know a recorded Zauberflöte more thrillingly... — More…
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th September 2010
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, Opera Choice
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Opera Award Winner
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Building a Library, November 2020, Recommended Recording
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
RecommendedDimitris Tiliakos (Don Giovanni), Vito Priante (Leporello), Myrtò Papatanasiu (Donna Anna), Kenneth Tarver (Don Ottavio), Karina Gauvin (Donna Elvira), Guido Loconsolo (Masetto), Christina Gansch (Zerlina), Mika Kares (Il Commendatore)
MusicAeterna & MusicAeterna Choir, Teodor Currentzis
[this Don Giovanni] strips away many of our distorting performance habits, and the result is refreshing, revelatory and unsettling…Tiliakos is a dramatic Don…Loconsolo is vocally nimble and... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th December 2016
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2017, Opera Winner
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
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Romantische Arien
Christian Gerhaher (baritone)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Daniel Harding
Gerhaher's Wolfram has followers travelling all over Europe in its wake, so uniquely moving, honest and profound is his response to Wagner's role...[the Wolfram arias] display that simple integrity... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Opera Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2013, Opera Choice
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Opera, February 2013, Recording of the Month
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Patricia Petibon's choice of arias by the three greatest of late 18th-century opera composers is tailor-made to display her range, in terms of both drama and sheer vocal compass. …her debut... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Opera Award Winner
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