Karina Gauvin
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Louise Bertin: Fausto
RecommendedKarine 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... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2024, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Opera
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International Opera Awards, 2024, Winner - Complete Recording
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winners 2024, Rediscovery
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Premiere Recordings
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Winner - Opera
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Georges Bizet: Djamileh, Vasco de Gama, Cantates, Musique chorale, Mélodies & Musique pour piano
Mélissa Petit (soprano), Isabelle Druet (mezzo), Cyrille Dubois (tenor), Thomas Dolié (baritone), Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth, Orchestre national de Metz Grand Est, David Reiland et al
As always with Bru Zane, the production values are high, both in terms of the immaculate recorded sound and the beautifully illustrated accompanying book with its scholarly articles. It all... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2025, Editor's Choice
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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: 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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Special offer. 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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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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Special offer. Barber: Orchestral Works Volume 5
Karina Gauvin (soprano) & Thomas Trotter (organ)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Marin Alsop
Karina Gauvin and Marin Alsop take a nostalgic view of Knoxville: Summer of 1915. Theirs is an adult's bittersweet reminiscence rather than a child's innocent view. The outer sections sway slowly,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2004, Disc of the Month
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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... — 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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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... — 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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Vivaldi: Farnace
RecommendedMax Emanuel Cencic (Farnace), Ann Hallenberg (Selinda), Karina Gauvin (Gilade), Daniel Behle (Pompeo), Ruxandra Donose (Tamiri), Mary-Ellen Nesi (Berenice), Emiliano Gonzales Toro (Aquilio)
I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis
Fasolis gives a vibrant account of a fine score with supple rhythms, well-judged tempos and dramatically charged recitative imparting character at every turn...Cencic enlivens [the title-role]... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th September 2011
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2011, Opera Choice
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