Browse: Bejun Mehta (countertenor)
This page lists all recordings performed by Bejun Mehta.
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George Benjamin: Written on Skin
Recommendedand Duet for piano and orchestra
Christopher Purves (The Protector), Barbara Hannigan (Agnès), Bejun Mehta (First Angel/Boy), Victoria Simmonds (Second Angel/Marie), Allan Clayton (Third Angel/John), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, George Benjamin
[Purves] expresses a brooding pride and menace that makes your skin crawl. [Hannigan] makes an electrifying transformation from doe-like submissiveness to sexual predator, and the powerfully... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Contemporary
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Premiere Award
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Che puro ciel
The Rise of Classical Opera
Bejun Mehta (counter-tenor)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs
Jacobs and Bejun Mehta unleash the primal energies buried in magnificent yet largely forgotten operas...Jacobs's abrupt tempo twists, the instrumentalists' boldness and the chorus's power make... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Recital
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Handel: Rinaldo RecommendedCecilia Bartoli (Almirena), David Daniels (Rinaldo), Bernarda Fink (Goffredo), Gerald Finley (Argante), Luba Orgonasova (Armida), Daniel Taylor (Eustazio), Bejun Mehta (A Christian Magician)
Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
most familiar and unfamiliar opera: familiar because, as his lavish first stage work for London, it has been much written about both by modern historians and by the composer's contemporaries;... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2001, Winner - Editor's Choice
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Benjamin: Into the Little Hill
Susan Bickley (contralto), Hila Pitmann (soprano), Michael Cox (flute), Nederlands Kamerkoor (chorus), Bejun Mehta (countertenor)
London Sinfonietta, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, George Benjamin
The opera performance is reason enough to buy this disc, but it is equally welcome for the recording of Benjamin’s stunning recent song-cycle Dream of the Song…the settings range from Mehta’s... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2017
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CANTATA - yet can I hear... Handel, Vivaldi, and Bach
Bejun Mehta (countertenor)
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Mehta’s voice remains light and graceful, and his general ability to move around the small notes is only occasionally compromised by untidiness. The period-instrument orchestra’s flautist, Christoph... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2018
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Diapason d’Or, May 2018, Nouveauté
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Horizon 7
Bejun Mehta (countertenor), Dominic Seldis (double bass)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nederlands Kamerkoor, George Benjamin, David Robertson, Daniel Harding
Benjamin’s song cycle … has a warm (and sometimes searing) sensuality which is eloquently projected by Bejun Mehta … Tan Dun’s Wolf… [is] a virtuoso vehicle for bass player Dominic Seldis, and... — More…
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
RecommendedBejun Mehta (Orfeo), Eva Liebau (Euridice) & Regula Mühlemann (Amore)
Collegium 1704, Collegium Vocale 1704, Václav Luks
At its best, indeed, in the unadorned unfolding of hell and then heaven, the experience strikes fire in a manner crucially lacking in other filmed Orfeos. Unfortunately, not even this one comes... — More…
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Building a Library, July 2014, DVD/Blu-ray Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2014, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Handel: Orlando
RecommendedBejun Mehta (Orlando), Sophie Karthäuser (Angelica), Kristina Hammarström (Medoro), Sunhae Im (Dorinda), Konstantin Wolff (Zoroastro)
B'Rock Orchestra, René Jacobs
Mehta brings lively characterisation to the mythical hero's subtle duality. I the uppermost notes of his vocal range sound a little pinched, there is ample compensation in bravura passagework...Im... — More…
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Building a Library, September 2014, First Choice
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Handel: Famous Pieces
B'Rock (early music ensemble), Dmitry Sinkovsky, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (early music ensemble), Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor), La Nuova Musica (early music ensemble), Francesco Corti (harpsichord), Il Pomo d'Oro (early music ensemble), Georg Kallweit, La Cetra Barockorchester (early music...
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Baroque! Baroque!
Elmar Oliveira (violin), Susann McDonald (harp), Robert Noehorn (organ), Arleen Auger (soprano), David Britton (organ), Celedonio Romero (guitar), Malcolm Hamilton (harpsichord), Robert Noehren (organ), Bejun Mehta (boy soprano), Gerard Schwarz (trumpet)
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Yale Cellos,...
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