Browse: Karina Gauvin (soprano)
This page lists all recordings performed by Karina Gauvin.
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Louise Bertin: Fausto
Karine Deshayes (Fausto), Karina Gauvin (Margarita), Ante Jerkunica (Mefistofele), Nico Darmanin (Valentino), Marie Gautrot (Catarina)
Les Talens Lyriques, Flemish Radio Choir, Christophe Rousset
Fausto may not be a masterpiece, but it is well worth encountering...There’s strong support from the Flemish Radio Choir and Les Talens Lyriques, with conductor Christophe Rousset revealing the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2024, Opera Choice
2 CDs + Book
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Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 1-5
RecommendedChamber Orchestra of Europe, RIAS Kammerchor, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Nézet-Séguin and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE) evoke the effervescent, restless, driven essence of Mendelssohn, often almost to perfection. The scherzo of the Scottish Symphony with its... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Recording of the Month
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Record Review, 24th June 2017, Recording of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Building a Library, June 2019, Also Recommended
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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 petulant... — 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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Steffani: Niobe Regina di Tebe
Karina Gauvin (Niobe), Philippe Jaroussky (Anfione), Amanda Forsythe (Manto), Aaron Sheehan (Clearte), Terry Wey (Creonte), Jesse Blumberg (Poliferno), Colin Balzer (Tiberino) & José Lemos (Nerea)
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs
it is a scrupulously detailed, slow-burning performance with an outstanding viol consort...The supporting roles are strongly cast...Jaroussky is at his best in music of penetrating sweetness... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2015, Disc of the Month
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2015, Winner - Opéra
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Handel: Partenope, HWV 27
Philippe Jaroussky (Arsace), Karina Gauvin (Partenope), John Mark Ainsley (Emilio), Teresa Iervolino (Rosmira), Emöke Barath (Armindo), Luca Tittoto (Ormonte)
Il Pomo d'Oro, Riccardo Minasi
Il Pomo d'Oro plays with tremendous attention to detail, as responsive to variations of timbre, articulation and dynamic as the singers...As the siren Partenope, Karina Gauvin brings an easy... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Baroque Vocal
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Opera, January 2016, Recording of the Month
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Handel: Tamerlano
RecommendedXavier Sabata (Tamerlano), Max Emanuel Cencic (Andronico), John Mark Ainsley (Bajazet), Karina Gauvin (Asteria), Ruxandra Donose (Irene), Pavel Kudinov (Leone)
Il Pomo d’Oro, Riccardo Minasi
The cast is of exceptional and even strength...[Sabata and Cencic] deliver brilliant tone and lively fioritura, while the scenes between Sabata and Ainsley crackle with fury...An all-round outstanding... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2014, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended Recording
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Handel: Alessandro, HWV21 Max Emanuel Cencic (Alessandro), Karina Gauvin (Lisaura), Julia Lezhneva (Roxana), Xavier Sabata (Tassile), Juan Sancho (Leonato)
Armonia Atenea, George Petrou
These discs should come with an asbestos slipcase, so incendiary is the performance they convey...Cencic is imperious hot-bloodedness personified...perhaps best of all is Karina Gauvin's utterly... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2013, Winner - Opéra baroque
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Handel: Ariodante
RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (Ariodante), Karina Gauvin (Ginevra), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Polinesso), Sabina Puértolas (Dalinda), Topi Lehtipuu (Lurcanio), Matthew Brook (King of Scotland), Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani (Odoardo)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
in Alan Curtis's scrupulously detailed performance, Joyce diDonato's gleaming legato and coloratura are upstaged by the elegance of Karina Gauvin's Ginevra. While diDonato offers recklessly inventive... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th May 2011
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Building a Library, January 2019, Recommended Recording
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Nuits blanches: Opera Arias at the Russian Court of the 18th Century Karina Gauvin (soprano)
Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Alexander Weimann
Gauvin’s Gluck is particularly classy...Of the vocal music by the Russians, Berezovsky’s is the more interesting, with two well-crafted arias from Demofoonte...The Pacific Baroque Orchestra under... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2020
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Juno Awards, 2021, Nominated - Classical Album of the Year (Vocal or Choral)
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Saint-Saëns: Ascanio
Jean-Francois Lapointe, Bernard Richter, Eve-Maud Hubeaux, Chœur et Orchestre de la Haute École de Musique de Genève, Guillaume Tourniaire
It would be good to report that this is a lost masterpiece. It’s not, but it is a carefully crafted late version of the form that Meyerbeer had invented for Paris…Competent to a fault, Saint-Saëns... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2018, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, Opera Choice
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