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Puccini: Turandot
RecommendedSondra Radvanovsky (Turandot), Jonas Kaufmann (Calaf), Ermonela Jaho (Liù), Michele Pertusi (Timur), Michael Spyres (Altoum), Mattia Olivieri (Ping), Gregory Bonfatti (Pang), Siyabonga Maqungo (Pong), Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
It is the attention Pappano pays to crafting the contrasts between passages of intense sensuality and of mechanistic brutality, casting new light on a familiar score in the process, which really... — More…
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2023, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th March 2023
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Opera, April 2023, Disc of the Month
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Record Review, 18th March 2023, Record of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2023, Recording of the Month
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year (Jaho/Radvanovsky)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Male Singer of the Year (Kaufmann/Spyres)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Finalist - Opera
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International Opera Awards, 2023, Nominated - Recording (Complete Opera)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Winner - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2023
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Opera
2 CDs
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Verdi: Aida
RecommendedAnja Harteros (Aida), Jonas Kaufmann (Radamès), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Amneris), Ludovic Tezier (Amonasro), Erwin Schrott (Ramfis), Marco Spotti (Il Re d'Egitto), Paolo Fanale (Un Messaggero), Eleonora Buratto (Sacerdotessa), Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Anja Harteros can boast both the high-octane tone and the necessary level of dramatic expression to make Aida credibly three dimensional…[Ekaterina Semenchuk makes] many subtle observations... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd October 2015
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2015, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Winner (Opera) and Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, Recording of the Month
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Record Review, October 2015, Record of the Week
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Building a Library, April 2017, Also Recommended
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2015
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2015, Winner - Opéra
2 CDs
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Alison Balsom: Sound The Trumpet
RecommendedRoyal Music of Purcell and Handel
Alison Balsom (trumpet), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Lucy Crowe (soprano)
The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
This charming disc contains some of the most imaginative and polished trumpet playing you're ever likely to hear...Born-again authenticists may cavil at Balsom's vented trumpet, a modern development... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th October 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2012, Editor's Choice
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Kaleidoscope
RecommendedFatma Said (soprano), Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Sascha Goetzel
Said vaults effortlessly across stylistic boundaries, often via dazzling arrangements by her collaborator Tim Allhoff. And that Whitney Houston track? Even diehard sceptics will be moved by... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd September 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year & Solo Vocal
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Bizet: Carmen
RecommendedMagdalena Kožená (Carmen), Jonas Kaufmann (Don José), Genia Kühmeier (Micaëla), Kostas Smoriginas (Escamillo), Christian van Horn (Zuniga), Andrè Schuen (Moralès), Christina Landshammer (Frasquita), Rachel Frenkel (Mercédès), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (Remendado) & Simone del Savio (Dancairo)
Chor...
this studio recording of Bizet’s opera compels attention for a variety of reasons...[Rattle and Kozena] stress their wish to return to the “chamber feeling” of the French tradition into which... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th August 2012
2 CDs
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Pene Pati
RecommendedPene Pati (tenor), Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Choeur de l'Opéra national de Bordeaux, Emmanuel Villaume
A generosity of spirit not always to be taken for granted with tenors is in constant evidence on Pene Pati’s debut album…His voice certainly has the colour for both the French and Italian repertoire... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th April 2022
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Opera, May 2022, Disc of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2022
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Young Artist of the Year
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Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
RecommendedElisabeth Schwarzkopf (Marschallin), Christa Ludwig (Octavian), Teresa Stich-Randall (Sophie), Otto Edelmann (Ochs), Eberhard Wächter (Faninal), Ljuba Welitsch (Marianne), Paul Kuen (Valzacchi/Tierhändler), Kerstin Meyer (Annina), Nicolai Gedda (Italian Singer)
Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra,...
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Gramophone Awards, 1988, Winner - Remastered CD
3 CDs
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Héroïque: French Opera Arias
RecommendedBryan Hymel (tenor)
PKF – Prague Philharmonia, Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno, Emmanuel Villaume
The leading tenor roles of this tradition require facility and strength at the top of the voice plus power and flexibility lower down - all of which Hymel supplies; in fact, he is clearly optimum... — More…
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd February 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Opera, April 2015, Recording of the Month
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Bizet: Carmen
Victoria de los Angeles (Carmen), Nicolai Gedda (Don Jose), Ernest Blanc (Escamillo), Janine Micheau (Micaela), Denise Monteil (Frasquita), Jean-Christophe Benoit (Dancaire), Michel Hamel (Remendado)
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, Sir Thomas Beecham
3 CDs
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Bostridge is at his best in those pieces requiring technically adroit command and intelligent poise...The sunlight returns at the end when Bostridge serves up a wonderfully captivating performance... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2022
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