Browse: Nora Gubisch (mezzo-soprano)

Joncières had clearly absorbed what he could from Meyerbeer, Weber, Gounod, Verdi and others...This performance manifestly believes in Dimitri, and the fusion of fine, fervent singing and vivid,... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2014 More…

[Gubisch] combines a beautiful voice with intelligence, crisp diction and a real sense of style...I would guess she's lived with this music for a long time...this is a disc from which young and... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

At first fêted, then pilloried and condemned, Perelà undergoes a quasi-passion, with only shapes seen in the clouds as a hint of resurrection. The title role's high tenor is superbly sung by... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2005, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Altinoglu conducts with idiomatic flair, varying the pace in a way that points up the score’s strengths. Gubisch’s contralto-ish Thérèse sounds a touch matronly, but the tender husband-and-wife... — Financial Times, 10th August 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The recording is very fine, comfortably accommodating the vast forces whilst at the same time allowing for the intimacy required when those forces are sparingly employed...the performance of... — MusicWeb International, January 2012 More…

Sir Colin Davis paces the sombre orchestral opening with great deliberation, and when the chorus enter the words "on its dark side" are weightily emphasised. The recording is well managed, with... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2008 More…

Gubisch manages to suggest the presence of Berberian in a remarkable way in the Berio, though she certainly does not try to imitate her; the accompaniment is as sensitive as could be imagined...I'd... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2014 More…

Castronovo’s Robert is all persuasive elegance and ringing high notes: you believe in him as a charismatic revolutionary, and he brings real passion to his scenes with Véronique Gens’s smoky... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2016 More…