Antonio Pappano
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Overall, what leaps out is the sheer quality, consistency and stylishness of Janine Jansen’s playing. She conjures up the mood of each piece with seemingly effortless and flawless technique...Pappano... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th September 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly
RecommendedAngela Gheorghiu (Butterfly), Jonas Kaufmann (Pinkerton), Enkelejda Shkosa (Suzuki), Fabio Capitanucci (Sharpless), Gregory Bonfatti (Goro) & Raymond Aceto (Bonzo)
Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
In many respects Gheorghiu's singing reminds me of Callas's: in Act I they both adopt a 'little girl' voice, and in Act II they both sound more mature… so that by the tragic climax they present... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd March 2009
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Opera
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Opera, April 2009, Recording of the Month
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Building A Library, March 2024, Recommended Recording
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Bernstein: The 3 Symphonies - Casebound Deluxe
RecommendedOrchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sir Antonio Pappano
Rana glitters away at the piano as the observer of inner turmoil in Anxiety; Josephine Barstow makes an excellent first of Bernstein’s often embarrassing Kaddish narration…but the lynchpin remains... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2018, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th August 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Orchestral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Winner - Symphonic Music
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Shakespeare Songs
RecommendedIan Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Adam Walker (flute), Lawrence Power (viola), Michael Collins (clarinet)
Five songs from Finzi’s incomparable Let us Garlands Bring see the tenor’s head voice floating sympathetically through the melismatic vowels and ever-shifting metres of Finzi’s most sensitive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Verdi: Requiem
RecommendedAnja Harteros (soprano), Sonia Ganassi (mezzo), Rolando Villazon (tenor), René Pape (bass)
Orchestra dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Coro dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Pappano's conducting maintains a firm control of his forces, showing a sense of drama that includes an awareness of the importance of some crucial moments of silence. Pappano's soloists are... —
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Building a Library, October 2015, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2009, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Choral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Choral Award Winner
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Jonas Kaufmann: Verismo Arias
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
This is a wonderful disc, the most exciting and enterprising operatic recital I have heard for a very long time...Kaufmann has everything, and at the age of 40 his voice may well be in its finest... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th September 2010
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Vocal Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Winner - Recital
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Opera, December 2010, Recording of the Month
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Jonas Kaufmann: Nessun Dorma
RecommendedThe Puccini Album
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Kristine Opolais (soprano)
Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Although he does not sound very Italian, Kaufmann draws strength from staying true to himself, a gloriously bronze-voiced German tenor, welding musicianship with smouldering emotion...Pappano... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th September 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Recital
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2015
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Opera, November 2015, Recording of the Month
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Rossini: Stabat Mater
RecommendedAnna Netrebko (soprano), Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Lawrence Brownlee (tenor), Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (bass)
Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
There is no shortage of good recordings of Rossini's Stabat Mater, but few do this gloriously uplifting work as much justice as Antonio Pappano's new recording...There is a compelling commitment... —
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Building a Library, April 2011, First Choice
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2011, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Editor's Choice
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Pappano is effortlessly adept at keeping the subtle structural coherence and unfolding story in perfect equilibrium...And he moulds the LSO into a single instrument, ravishingly ref ined, alert... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2025, Editor's Choice
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Puccini: La Rondine
RecommendedAngela Gheorghiu (Magda/Anna), Roberto Alagna (Ruggero/Roberto), William Matteuzzi (Prunier), Inva Mula (Lisette), Alberto Renaldi (Rambaldo)
London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano
An almost ideal account of Puccini's least-performed mature work, with both Alagna and Gheorghiu at their peak. Valuable extras from Alagna in Le Villi, too. —
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Gramophone Awards, 1997, Recording of the Year
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