Orchestre National de France
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Enescu: Symphonies Nos. 1-3 & Romanian Rhapsodies 1 & 2
Orchestre National de France, Cristian Măcelaru
It's quite a journey, as the languorous finale of the Third Symphony demonstrates (its huge forces include organ and chorus), and Mӑcelaru captures the visionary aspects of the score in an unquestionably... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2024, Orchestral Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Orchestral
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The Orchestre National de France and Cristian Măcelaru aren’t the first to champion the French composer’s forgotten music, but in these punchy performances they make a powerful case for her... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th February 2026
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2026, Orchestral Choice
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Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers
RecommendedThéo Fouchenneret (piano), Tristan Raës, Cyrille Dubois (soloist), Roberto Prosseda (piano), Alessandra Ammara, Ismaël Margain, François Dumont (piano), Anna Agafia, Anaïs Constans (soloist), Marie Vermeulin, David Zobel, Yann Beuron (soloist), Étienne Manchon, Aude Extrémo (soloist), François Rougier...
Although women composers are at last getting more attention, there have been few discoveries as encyclopedic as this. Across eight discs, the legacy of 21 French Romantic composers is explored,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Box Set of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Special offer. Offenbach: Maitre Peronilla
Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Antoinette Dennefeld, Tassis Christoyannis, Véronique Gens, Éric Huchet, Loïc Félix, Matthieu Lécroart, Anaïs Constans, Patrick Kabongo, François Piolino, Yoann Dubruque, Raphaël Brémard, Jérôme Boutillier, Antoine Philippot, Philippe-Nicolas Martin, Diana Axentii
Chœur...
Offenbach deftly plays to the 19th-century French passion for all things Iberian with Spanish accents in the orchestration…A strong cast includes Véronique Gens as the wicked sister Leona who... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2020
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2020, Opera Choice
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Poulenc: Orchestral Works
RecommendedPascal Rogé (harpsichord)
Orchestre National de France, Charles Dutoit
I chose this disc from our Presto Print-On-Demand range primarily for the sparkling account of the 1947 Sinfonietta, which isn't desperately well represented on disc - but Charles Dutoit's take... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Kaija Saariaho: Maan Varjot, Chateau de l'Ame, True Fire, Offrande
Olivier Latry (organ), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Hannu Lintu, Ernest Martínez Izquierdo
If I appear to be in the minority in continuing to view the late Saariaho’s output as a very mixed bag, there’s music on this valuable disc that I’ll return to while it reminds me, again, how... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Winners, Contemporary
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Saint-Saëns: Complete Symphonies
Olivier Latry (organ), Orchestre National de France, Cristian Măcelaru
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Special offer. Ne me refuse pas: French Opera Arias
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto)
Orchestre National de France, Fabien Gabel
This procession of femmes fatales, schemers and innocents has a point to make, and it's not just the singer's ability to get under their skin...it shows them as part of a larger movement: the... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Recital
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Opera, June 2011, Recording of the Month
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Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
Gregory Kunde (Benvenuto Cellini), Patrizia Ciofi (Teresa), Joyce DiDonato (Ascanio), Jean-Francois Lapointe (Fieramosca), Laurent Naouri (Balducci), Renaud Delaigue (Le Pape), Eeic Salha (Francesco)
Orchestre National De France/Choeur De Radio France, John Nelson
Thanks to to Hugh Macdonald's brilliant work for the New Berlioz Edition the 1838 Paris Opéra version of Benvenuto Cellini is once again performable; this adds almost half an hour's music to... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2005, Finalist - Opera
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Poulenc: Gloria & Stabat Mater
Françoise Pollet (soprano)
R.T.F. Choeur De Radio France, R.T.F. Maitrise De Radio France, Orchestre National De France, Charles Dutoit