Sophie Koch
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Massenet: Werther
RecommendedRolando Villazon (Werther), Sophie Koch (Charlotte), Audun Iversen (Albert), Eri Nakamura (Sophie), Alain Vernhes (Le Bailli), Stuart Patterson (Schmidt), Darren Jeffrey (Johann), Anna Devin (Käthchen), Zhengzhong Zhou (Brühlmann)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden,...
[Villazon] successfully negotiates the exposed or awkward passages. In the bigger singing of the third act...there's a touch of the old, devil-may-care Villazon...Even better is [Koch's Charlotte]...But... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th March 2012
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Opera
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Opera, July 2012, Recording of the Month
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Massenet: Manon
RecommendedAngela Gheorghiu (Manon), Roberto Alagna (Le Chevalier Des Grieux), Earle Patriarco (Lescaut), José van Dam (Le Compte des Grieux), Sophie Koch (Javotte), Anne Maria Panzarella (Poussette), Susanne Schimmack (Rosette), Nicolas Rivenq (De Brétigny), Nicolas Cavallier (L'Hôtelier), Gilles Ragon (Guillot...
In Act 1 Gheorghiu instantly establishes the heroine as a vivacious, wilful character with a great sense of fun and her singing is both imaginative and technically flawless...while Alagna, always... —
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Building a Library, December 2000, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2001, Winner - Opera
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Maurice Ravel: Cantates Pour Le Prix de Rome
Véronique Gens (soprano), Vannina Santoni (sopranos), Sophie Koch, Janina Baechle (mezzos), Julien Behr, Michael Spyres (tenors), Jacques Imbrailo (baritone)
Choeur et Orchestre National des Pays de La Loire, Pascal Rophé
there is much to enjoy in this fascinating set which offers sensitive and refined orchestral playing, as well as especially outstanding vocal contributions from Véronique Gens and Michael Spyres. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2022, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Choral Music
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Choral
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Special offer. Grieg: Peer Gynt
Alex Jennings, Haydn Gwynne, Derek Jacobi, Dietrich Henschel, Inger Dam-Jensen, Sophie Koch
Ensemble vocal le Motet de Genève & Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Guillaume Tourniaire
the best complete version of Grieg’s theatre music… Tourniaire has intuited and delivered a true Grieg style from his orchestra, alert, light, swift but not afraid to punch home the ironies... —
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Stravinsky: Chant Funèbre & Le Sacre du printemps
RecommendedLucerne Festival Orchestra, Sophie Koch (mezzo), Riccardo Chailly
Chailly draws out the colours vividly with his Lucerne orchestra, silky strings and rounded woodwind voices to the fore. The Funeral Song is more than a curiosity…It’s a very good performance... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th January 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Special offer. Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos
Krassimira Stoyanova (Ariadne/Prima Donna), Sophie Koch (Komponist), Jessica Pratt (Zerbinetta), AJ Glueckert (Bacchus), Markus Werba (Ein Musiklehrer), Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Daniele Gatti
Gatti conducts the score with evident affection, his account unrushed and expansive, moving in the Opera’s overture and achieving a noble sense of grandeur in the final minutes. —
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Strauss: Ariadne Auf Naxos
Johan Botha (Bacchus), Soile Isokoski (Ariadne), Daniela Fally (Zerbinetta), Sophie Koch (Komponist)
Wiener Staatsoper, Christian Thielemann
The set’s chief glory is arguably the playing of the musicians of the State Opera Orchestra: every solo line is exquisitely crafted and beautifully integrated, for which Thielemann must of course... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
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Ravel - L'Enfant et les sortileges & Mother Goose
RecommendedMagdalena Kožená, Nathalie Stutzmann, Sophie Koch, José van Dam, François Le Roux & Jean-Paul Fouchécourt
Berliner Philharmoniker & Rundfunkchor Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle
Rattle's first recording of the ballet was superlative, but this second rendering, is, if anything, better, taking full advantage of the Berlin Phil's exceptional colours. —
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Building a Library, September 2018, Also Recommended
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Egon Wellesz: 20th Century Portraits
Regina Klepper (soprano), Sophie Cook (mezzo soprano)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Roger Epple
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Simon Rattle Conducts Ravel
Cécile Ousset (piano), Peter Walden (french horn), Andrei Gavrilov (piano), Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano), Sophie Koch (mezzo-soprano), Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto), José van Dam (bass-baritone), Annick Massis (soprano), François Le Roux (bass-baritone), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (tenor), Mojca...
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