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Insieme - Opera Duets
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (tenor), Ludovic Tézier (baritone), Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
They begin with Puccini – a passionate Rodolfo and a quicktempered Marcello – and end with a chilling Otello, Tézier’s Iago dripping poison into Kaufmann’s ear in the Act II duet, with Antonio... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2022, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Male Singer of the Year (both artists), Conductor of the Year & Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Shortlisted - Voice & Orchestra
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The readings have a lived-in quality: lively, warm, articulate, spacious and deeply felt on the plus side, a little frayed around the edges and tending towards the baggy on the other. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Winner - Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Engineered Classical Album
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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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Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana & Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (DVD)
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (Turiddu), Liudmyla Monastyrska (Santuzza), Ambrogio Maestri (Alfio), Annalisa Stroppa (Lola), Stefania Toczyska (Mamma Lucia), Jonas Kaufmann (Canio), Maria Agresta (Nedda), Dimitri Platanias (Tonio), Alessio Arduini (Silvio), Tansel Akzeybek (Beppe)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Sachsischer...
We have plenty of the thrilling, untrammelled and ringing sound that the tenor is capable of at his best...Happily, Kaufmann’s outstanding central performances are well matched, both musically... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th March 2016
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2016, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
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At its most larger-than-life, a thrilling recording not for the faint-hearted; but it’s also a heart-on-sleeve reminder of Liszt’s abiding versatility. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th September 2021
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Diapason d’Or, October 2021, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Vocal
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Male Singer of the Year
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Wagner: Parsifal
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (Parsifal), Katarina Dalayman (Kundry), Peter Mattei (Amfortas), René Pape (Gurnemanz), Evgeny Nikitin (Klingsor), Rúni Brattaberg (Titurel), Maria Zifchak (Stimme)
Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, Daniele Gatti, Francois Girard (dir.)
Kaufmann is the Parsifal we've all been waiting for...Matching his agonies are those of Peter Mattei's Amfortas and Katarina Dalayman's lustrous, secure Kundry, while the relaxed, minimal gestures... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Opera
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2014
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2014, Winner - Opéra
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The first surprise of this album – which you will absolutely want to hear – is the subtlety and intimacy of Levit’s playing…Only a handful of pianists have scaled the heights of Stevenson’s... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, Instrumental Choice
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2021
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Record Review, Records of the Year 2021
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Recording of the Year & Instrumental Winner
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Piano
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The mixture is rough hewn but, at its best, exhilarating: Kavakos goes for sharply profiled phrases and punchy staccatos, often with an expressive highlight at the centre...this whole recording... — More…
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