Browse: Accentus (choir)
This page lists all recordings performed by Accentus.
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Nézet-Séguin’s conducting is efficient and often quite exciting, and the CO of Europe plays splendidly. Symphonies 1, 2, 4, 7, and 8 come off the best in this set, and I can recommend these performances... — More…
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Record Review, 16th July 2022, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
5 CDs
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Schubert: Nacht & Träume
RecommendedLieder with orchestra
Wiebke Lehmkuhl (contralto), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (tenor)
Insula orchestra & accentus, Laurence Equilbey
A surprisingly coherent musical experience. The revelation is the French composer Franck Krawczyk (b.1969) whose bubbling arrangement of An Sylvia had me smiling for days…Wiebke Lehmkuhl and... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th December 2017
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Beethoven: Choral Fantasy & Triple Concerto
Alexandra Conunova (violin), Natalie Clein (cello) & David Kadouch (piano), Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Sandrine Piau (soprano), Anaïck Morel (mezzo), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (tenor) & Florian Sempey (bass)
Insula orchestra, Accentus, Laurence Equilbey
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year (Chamayou)
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Saint-Saëns: Le Timbre d’argent
Jodie Devos (Rosa), Tassis Christoyannis (Spiridion), Hélène Guilmette (Hélène), Edgaras Montvidas (Conrad), Yu Shao (Benedict),
Les Siècles, Accentus, François-Xavier Roth
The score is as elegantly upholstered as anything that Saint-Säens wrote...Fiametta is a danced role which leaves something of a vocal hole in the middle of the work – particularly since the... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
2 CDs + Book
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Mozart: La clemenza di Tito
Nicky Spence (Tito), Simona Šaturová (Vitellia), Anna Stéphany (Sesto), Chiara Skerath (Servilia), Antoinette Dennefeld (Annio), David Steffens (Publio)
Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie, Ben Glassberg
The title-role is difficult to cast, but Nicky Spence has the range, the fluency and the technique to bring off all the vocal challenges while equally entering fully into the character’s plight...With... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2022, Opera Choice
2 CDs
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Fauré - Requiem
Sandrine Piau (soprano) & Stéphane Degout (baritone)
Accentus & Members of Orchestre National de France, Laurence Equilbey
Can there may be a more profoundly beautiful recording of Fauré's Requiem out there? We defy any sensitive soul not to be transported into a state of near rapture by the unspeakably delicious... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Choral
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Transcriptions 2
This disc presents more classical music hits transcribed for a cappella choir, focusing on some lesser-known repertoire.
Brigitte Engerer (piano)
Accentus Chamber Choir & Les Monts du Reuil Continuo, Laurence Equilbey
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2007, Editor's Choice
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Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Werner Gura (tenor), Christopher Purves (bass-baritone)
Accentus Chamber Choir, Insula Orchestra, Laurence Equilbey
Balance generally...is superbly managed by the experienced conductor, Laurence Equilbey...Her soloists, too, match well as a quartet...for all Equilbey's avoidance of theatricality it's the sense... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Choral & Song Choice
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Gounod: Saint François d'Assise
Florian Sempey & Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Karine Deshayes (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestre de Chambre de Paris & Accentus, Laurence Equilbey
What a find it is – the melodic material is superbly memorable and opulent (almost disconcertingly so for a work depicting an ascetic!), the orchestration rich and autumnal. I’ve waxed lyrical... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2018
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Mozart: Betulia liberata
Sandrine Piau (Amital), Amanda Forsythe (Cabri/Carmi), Teresa Iervolino (Giuditta), Pablo Bernsch (Ozia), Nahuel Di Pierro (Achior), Accentus, Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
[Bemsch's] brilliant tenor voice never fails to light up the landscape...Another very impressive vocal presence is the contralto Teresa Iervolino ( Judith), who is vividly dramatic in the recitative... — More…
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Record Review, 17th October 2020, Record of the Week
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