Karen Cargill
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Special offer. Berlioz: La damnation de Faust
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), Bryan Hymel (tenor), Christopher Purves (baritone), Gábor Bretz (bass)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Guildhall School Singers, Tiffin Children's Chorus, Tiffin Girls' Choir, Tiffin Boys' Choir, Sir Simon Rattle
The work and its style – especially the virtuosity and panache required – have clearly remained in the orchestra’s collective memory…Overall it’s a tightly organised and carefully paced achievement... —
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Record Review, 23rd March 2019, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius
David Butt Philip (Gerontius), Karen Cargill (Angel), Roland Wood (Priest/Angel of the Agony), Huddersfield Choral Society, Orchestra of Opera North, Martyn Brabbins
The combination of clarity and balance of this Hyperion recording, revealing details one often bypasses or simply does not hear...along with the vibrant choral dimension, is a very persuasive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Editor's Choice
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
Chen Reiss (soprano), Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Netherlands Radio Choir, Daniele Gatti
The incisiveness of strings in the earth-tremors of the first movement, the luminous beauty of the horns and the trumpet seraphics come across beautifully in the most luminous of concert-halls…Watching... —
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Special offer. Fleur de mon âme
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), Simon Lepper (piano), Royal Scottish National Orchestra Soloists
The intimacy and tenderness which she and Lepper bring to Hahn's evergreen À Chloris is worth the price of the disc alone, but everything here is utterly beguiling, with the strings of the RSNO... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2021
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Bruckner: Mass No. 3 in F Minor, WAB 28 (Nowak Edition) [Live]
Sally Matthews (soprano), Stanislav Trofimov (bass), Karen Cargill, Ilker Arcayürek (tenor), Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Choral
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Dvořák: Requiem, Op. 89
Lisa Milne (soprano), Karen Cargill (mezzo soprano), Peter Auty (tenor) & Peter Rose (bass)
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Neeme Järvi
All the virtues of Järvi's approach come together… in the Agnus Dei: beautifully paced and crafted, the performance captures superbly the radiance of Dvorák's vision of the hereafter. —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2010, Editor's Choice
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 'Choral'
Twyla Robinson (soprano), Karen Cargill (mezzo), John MacMaster (tenor), Gerald Finley (bass)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Bernard Haitink
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Berlioz: L’Enfance du Christ
Yann Beuron (narrator/centurion), Karen Cargill (Marie), William Dazeley (Joseph), Matthew Rose (Herod) & Peter Rose (Father/Polydorus), London Symphony Orchestra & Tenebrae Choir, Sir Colin Davis
The singers are well suited to this repertoire. Yann Beuron is a fine tenor of wide compass and a light vibrato which suit oratorio work. Karen Cargill is a delightfully tender in O mon cher... —
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Schubert: Unfinished Symphony & Janacek: Glagolitic Mass
Zdena Kloubova (soprano), Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), Pavol Breslik (tenor), Gustáv Belácek (bass) & David Goode (organ)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno, Kurt Masur
Masur was indeed right at home in the Schubert, and gave a reading of unforced grandeur, sturdy without being ponderous. —
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Beethoven: Mass in C & Symphony No. 9 ‘Ode to Joy’(4th Movement)
Sally Matthews (soprano), Sara Mingardo (mezzo-soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & Alastair Miles (bass), Twyla Robinson (soprano), Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), John MacMaster (tenor), Gerald Finley (bass)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Colin Davis, Bernard Haitink
The slow third movement… moves along at a pace few conductors would have employed fifty years ago. Yet it never sounds hurried, and the dramatic brass interruptions towards its close have an... —
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