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Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex & Apollon Musagète
RecommendedJennifer Johnston (Jocasta), Stuart Skelton (Oedipus), Gidon Saks (Creon) & Fanny Ardant (narrator)
Gentlemen of the Monteverdi Choir & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Johnston's superb interpretation lifts the whole performance up a couple of notches...But John Eliot Gardiner's conducting somehow misses the work's elusive power. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th April 2014
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Building a Library, May 2018, Recommended Recording
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Ravel: L'heure Espagnole & Boléro
RecommendedIsabelle Druet (Concepción), Julien Behr (Gonzalve), Loïc Félix (Torquemada), Thomas Dolié (Ramiro), Jean Teitgen (Don Iñigo Gomez), Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Ravel's sense of instrumental characterisation is crucial, and the results are delectable. All the instruments used are listed in the booklet alongside their players. But the voices are just... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th June 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2023, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Winner - Assorted Programs
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Schmitt: Le Petit Elfe Ferme-l’Oeil & Introït, Récit et Congé
Aline Martin mezzo-soprano (Petit Elfe), Henri Demarquette (cello)
Orchestre national de Lorraine, Jacques Mercier
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2014, Winner - Musique symphonique
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Valery Gergiev conducts Stravinsky
Dsd recording, Mariinsky Concert Hall, St Petersburg December 2009 (Les Noces) Feb 2010 (Oedipus Rex)
Mlada Khudoley (soprano), Olga Savova (mezzo), Alexander Timchenko (tenor), Andrei Serov (bass), Svetlana Smolina, Yulia Zaichkina, Alexander Mogilevsky, Maxim Mogilevsky (pianos), Sergei Semishkur (Oedipus), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Jocasta), Evgeny Nikitin (Creon & Messenger), Mikhail Petrenko...
Ekaterina Semenchuk...[is] the contralto with the biggest range and lustre since Bernstein's Troyanos, and Sergey Semishkur's Oedipus blends clarion authority with youthful pathos...all the... — More…
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Guy Van Waas leads a performance that is in all senses highly commendable, drawing finely pointed playing from his orchestra. Top vocal honours go to the haute-contre Mathias Vidal, who here... — More…
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Stravinsky: Mavra & Les Noces
Susan Belinck (Parasha), Mary Simmons (The Mother), Patricia Rideout (The Neighbour), Stanley Kolk (Vasili/Mavra), Mildred Allen (soprano), Adrienne Albert (mezzo-soprano), Jack Litten (tenor), William Metcalf (bass)
CBC Symphony Orchestra, Gregg Smith Singers, The Ithaca College Concert Choir,...
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Rameau: Le Temple de la Gloire
Gabrielle Philiponet (soprano), Chantal Santon-Jeffery (soprano), Camille Ortiz (soprano), Artavazd Sargsyan (haute-contre), Aaron Sheehan (haute-contre), Philippe-Nicolas Martin (baritone), Marc Labonnette (baritone), Tonia D’Amelio (soprano)
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale, Nicholas...
McGegan’s touch has never been surer, and he pushes artists and moods to their expressive limits…Steering a superb cast, McGegan also makes sense of the allegory’s bonkers mix of affects within... — More…
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