Piotr Beczala
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This is a big voice with a warm Italianate tone and a fitting sense of the legato required for this repertoire. Verismo sobbing is kept to a minimum. Beczala knows exactly how to build the drama... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th May 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2020, Recording of the Month
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Opera, July 2020, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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This is a big voice with a warm Italianate tone and a fitting sense of the legato required for this repertoire. Verismo sobbing is kept to a minimum. Beczala knows exactly how to build the drama... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th May 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2020, Recording of the Month
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Opera, July 2020, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Male Singer of the Year
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
RecommendedNatalie Dessay (Lucia), Piotr Beczala (Edgardo), Vladislav Sulimsky (Enrico), Dmitry Voropaev (Arturo), Ilya Bannik (Raimondo), Zhanna Dombrovskaya (Alisa) & Sergei Skorokhodov (Normanno)
Mariinsky Orchestra & Chorus, Valery Gergiev
Everything Dessay does is lovely, but there is a lack of the desperation which should pervade the role...[Beczala is] actually more moving and Italianate than Dessay. Still, as post-Maria Callas... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st August 2011
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2011, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Piotr Beczala: The French Collection
RecommendedPiotr Beczala (tenor), Diana Damrau (soprano)
Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Lyon, Alain Altinoglu
Crucially, his linguistic abilities are up to the challenge, and throughout the recital his French proves genuinely idiomatic. So does his appreciation of French style, with its important focus... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd February 2015
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, Opera Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Fiamma del Bel Canto: Diana Damrau
Diana Damrau (soprano), Nicole Brandolino (Anna), Piotr Beczała (Alfredo), Nicolas Testé (Wurm)
Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino, Gianandrea Noseda
Damrau is at her best, mellifluous and agile. — More…
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The voice has body, especially in the upper middle register, and an exciting ring on top. — More…
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Opera, August 2008, Recording of the Month
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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Piotr Beczala (Gustaf III), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Renato Ankarstrom), Krassimira Stoyanova (Amelia), Nadia Krasteva (Ulrica), Hila Fahima (Oscar), Wiener Staatsoper, Jesús López Cobos
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
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Verdi: Arias
Piotr Beczala (tenor), Ewa Podles (contralto), Mariusz Kwiecien (baritone)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukas Borowicz
The Polish tenor's move into a heavier repertoire than hitherto associated with him is amply vindicated in this celebratory CD...he retains the golden quality of his voice as he sizes up. The... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2013, Opera Choice
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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
RecommendedMariusz Kwiecien (Onegin), Anna Netrebko (Tatyana), Piotr Beczala (Lensky), Oksana Volkova (Olga), Alexei Tanovitski (Gremin)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet, Valery Gergiev (conductor) & Deborah Warner (director)
Netrebko convincingly projects the teenage Tatiana's inwardness and sensitivity...Beczala, bookish and intense as Lensky, is deeply moving during the humiliating party scene and duel...Gergiev's... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gounod: Faust
Piotr Beczała (Faust), Ildar Abdrazakov (Méphistophélès), Maria Agresta (Marguerite), Alexey Markov (Valentin), Tara Erraught (Siébel), Paolo Rumetz (Wagner) & Marie-Ange Todorovitch (Marthe)
Wiener Philharmoniker & Philharmonia Chor Vienna, Alejo Pérez, Reinhard von der Thannen
The Vienna Philharmonic treats Gounod’s smooth lines and rich harmonies with the love and respect they deserve. — More…
