Georges Prêtre
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Les Vents Français: French Music for Winds & 20th Century Wind Quintets
RecommendedLes Vents Français (Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Paul Meyer (clarinet), Francois Leleux (oboe), Gilbert Audin (bassoon), Radovan Vlatkovic (horn)
individually, they play with attractive timbre and immaculate intonation and articulation. Collectively, they blend their colours with great finesse, within dynamics ranging from cushioned pianissimo... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th January 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Georges Prêtre conducts Poulenc
RecommendedMaurice Duruflé, Gabriel Tacchino, Aimée Van der Weile, Francis Poulenc & Jacques Fevrier
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Maîtrise d'enfants de la Radiodiffusion Française, Ambrosian Singers & Philharmonia Orchestra, Georges Prêtre, Jacques Jouineau & Henriette...
This set usefully collects Poulenc's concertante works and throws in Les biches and the Litanies à la Vierge noire for good measure. Richly characterful accounts, though far from blemish-free. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Collection Winner
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Building a Library, May 2019, Also Recommended
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Gounod: St Cecilia Mass
Barbara Hendricks, Laurence Dale, Jean-Philippe Lafont
Choeur de Radio-France, Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique, Georges Prêtre
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Poulenc: La voix humaine & Cocteau: Le bel indifférent
Édith Piaf & Denise Duval
Orchestre du Théâtre National de l’Opéra-Comique, Georges Prêtre
Duval who created the role gives a compelling performance as Poulenc and Cocteau’s woman abandoned on the telephone, with Georges Prêtre relishing this haunting score. Edith Piaf in Cocteau’s... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, March 2018, Réédition
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13 CDs
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Bizet: Carmen
Maria Callas (Carmen), Nicolai Gedda (Don José), Andréa Guiot (Micaëla), Robert Massard (Escamillo), Nadine Sautereau (Frasquita), Jane Berbié (Mercédès), Jean-Paul Vauquelin (Le Dancaïre), Jacques Pruvost (Le Remendado), Claude Cales (Moralès), Jacques Mars (Zuniga)
Orchestre du Théâtre National...
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100 Best Film Classics
Gwynne Howell (bass), Alfreda Hodgson (mezzo-soprano), Arthur Davies (tenor), Yvonne Kenny (soprano), Ernest Blanc (baritone), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Gerard Causse (viola), Gary Hoffman (cello), Augustin Dumay (violin), Cécile Ousset (piano), Timothy Beasley-Murray (boy soprano), Nikolaj Bloch (guitar),...
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Fritz Wunderlich: Live on Stage
Unreleased arias from Vienna and Munich
Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), with Anneliese Rothenberger, Karl Kohn, with Claude Heater, Albrecht Peter, Anneliese Rothenberger, with Eberhard Wächter, with Lucia Popp, Lisa Della Casa, Robert Kerns, Waldemar Kmentt, Walter Berry, with Hilde Güden, Vera Little, with Kurt Böhme, Josef Knapp, with Ingeborg...
The pearl of great price...the Mozart tenor who could sound both elegant and manly...His 'Il mio tesoro' drops not a semiquaver and takes the long phrases with confident ease. At all times he... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Historic
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