Orchestre National de Lille
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this is not any tenor, but an artist who aspires to recreate the style of the fabled French ténor de grâce with top notes sung from the head and not the chest...Crisp diction and a graceful... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2023
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International Opera Awards, 2023, Nominated - Recording (Solo Recital)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
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Chausson: Poème de l'amour et de la mer & Symphonie Op. 20
RecommendedVéronique Gens (soprano)
Orchestre National de Lille, Alexandre Bloch
A performance that ranks, unquestionably, among the finest to date. Superbly sung, and wonderfully well conducted and played by Alexandre Bloch and his Lille orchestra, this is an interpretation... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2019
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Record Review, 27th April 2019, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2019
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Solo Vocal
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Poulenc: La Voix Humaine
RecommendedVéronique Gens (soprano), Orchestre National de Lille, Alexandre Bloch
More than ably supported by the Orchestre National de Lille under Alexandre Bloch, Gens spans the gamut of emotions, puzzled, hopeful, coquettish, desperately pleading, def iant and, ultimately,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th January 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Shortlisted - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Canteloube - Chants d'Auvergne, Volume 2
Véronique Gens (soprano)
Orchestre National de Lille, Serge Baudo
In her second volume, including 'Chut, Chut' and 'Lo Fiolairé', Véronique Gens does more than confirm her credentials. The voice is bright, forward, notably clear in diction and lightly responsive... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2007, Editor's Choice
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Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra & Viola Concerto
Amihai Grosz (viola), Orchestre National de Lille, Alexandre Bloch
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne (selection)
Véronique Gens (soprano)
Orchestre National de Lille, Jean-Claude Casadesus
Each decade finds its favourite soloist for the Chants d'Auvergne: in the 1960s it was Natania Devrath, the 70s had Victoria de los Angeles, the 80s Kiri Te Kanawa, the 90s Dawn Upshaw.
They... — More…CD
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Bizet: Clovis et Clotilde & Te Deum
Katarina Jovanovic (soprano), Philippe Do (tenor) & Mark Schnaible (bass), Katarina Jovanovic (soprano) & Philippe Do (tenor)
Orchestre National de Lille, Choeur Régional Nord – Pas-de-Calais, Jean-Claude Casadesus
Bizet's cantata, which won him the Prix de Rome in 1857, contains some lovely moments and a few characteristic things...It shows Bizet the orchestrator far beyond the apprentice stage...Jovanovic... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2011, Editor's Choice
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Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de Perles
Julie Fuchs (Leïla), Cyrille Dubois (Nadir), Florian Sempey (Zurga), Luc Bertin-Hugault (Nourabad); Les Cris de Paris & Orchestre National de Lille, Alexandre Bloch
Dubois is distinctly French in the timbre of his voice and his singing style, and if Fuchs tends to spread under pressure she is lyrical when required and her coloratura is formidable…the vocal... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2018, Recording of the Month
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Diapason d’Or, June 2018, Nouveauté
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Think of La belle époque and I’m not sure Johannes Brahms necessarily springs to mind...Wauwe plays the sonata/concerto well though, her chalumeau register suitably juicy, and she floats the... — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Winner - Newcomer of the Year
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Poulenc: Organ Concerto & Concert champêtre
Philippe Lefebvre (organ), Elisabeth Chojnacka (harpsichord)
Lille National Orchestra, Jean-Claude Casadesus
Elisabeth Chojnacka gets off to a head start against most others who have recorded the Concertchampêtre by using the right kind of instrument: she understands that it's much sillier to play... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Collection Recommendation
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