Latest News: Classical, Bru Zane (label)
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Recording of the Week,
Christophe Rousset conducts Spontini's La vestale 19th May 2023The first-ever period-instrument recording of Spontini's 1807 opera emphasises the score's debt to the French declamatory tradition, with Marina Rebeka on ravishing form in the title-role and Stanislas de Barbeyrac showing his true heroic colours as the Roman soldier Licinius.
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Interview,
Christophe Rousset on Lully and Gounod 14th November 2019The French harpsichordist and conductor talks to Katherine about recording Lully's 1677 opera Isis (out now on Aparté) and the original 1859 version of Gounod's Faust, released in September on Bru Zane.
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Recording of the Week,
Offenbach's La Périchole from Marc Minkowski 28th June 2019One of the composer’s great champions celebrates last week’s bicentenary in style with the first period-instrument recording of this 1868 opéra bouffe about a couple of down-at-heel street-performers who are coerced into a drunken sham marriage.
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Interview,
Véronique Gens on Proserpine 25th May 2017The French falcon talks to Katherine about taking on the dark and dramatic title-role in the first complete recording of Saint-Saëns's drame lyrique.
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Recording of the Week,
Christophe Rousset conducts Étienne Méhul's rarely-heard opera, Uthal 24th February 2017Katherine enjoys a rare gem of an opera by an early Romantic French composer, with Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques.