Gramophone Awards, Bizet (composer)
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AIGUL
RecommendedAigul Akhmetshina (mezzo), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniele Rustioni; with Freddie De Tommaso (tenor), Elisabeth Boudreault (soprano), Kezia Bienek (mezzo)
She is surely vocally ideal for [Carmen], offering both character and taste in numbers that can sound overblown, or even clichéd. Instead, Akhmetshina supplies delicacy and grace, though she... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th July 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2024, Editor's Choice
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International Opera Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Recording (Solo Recital)
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2025, Young Talent of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Voice & Ensemble
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El Nour
Fatma Said (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Burcu Karadag (flute), Rafael Aguirre (guitar), vision string quartet (string quartet)
Clever arrangements allow us to encounter shared visions across France, Spain and North Africa...There’s no tacky Orientalism here...The breathy, soft-voiced ney (a Middle Eastern flute) brings... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2020, Choral & Song Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Winner - Vocal
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Winner - Newcomer Award
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Winner - Song
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Newcomer of the Year
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Gens is in fine voice – indeed, she seems to be in her prime. Her diction is as always immaculate and she produces a stream of elegant tone…and the required vocal heft to ride Massenet’s orchestra... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th June 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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International Opera Awards, 2018, Winner - Solo Recital
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Recital
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International Classical Music Awards, 2018, Winner - Vocal Recital
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Jonas Kaufmann - Romantic Arias
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Marco Armiliato
This is an exciting disc, for it shows that at long last there is a German tenor whose voice is rich and warm enough to encompass the Romantic Italian reportoire, while being as much at home... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Recital
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2008, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2009
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Special offer. Ne me refuse pas: French Opera Arias
Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto)
Orchestre National de France, Fabien Gabel
This procession of femmes fatales, schemers and innocents has a point to make, and it's not just the singer's ability to get under their skin...it shows them as part of a larger movement: the... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Recital
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Opera, June 2011, Recording of the Month
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The Record of Singing – The Very Best of Volumes 1-4
RecommendedFrom 1899 to the end of the 78 era: 1899-1952
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Gramophone Awards, 1989, Winner - Historic vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 1979, Winner - Historical
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Historic vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Historic Reissue
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Gramophone Awards, 1977, Winner - Historical
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Georges Bizet: Djamileh, Vasco de Gama, Cantates, Musique chorale, Mélodies & Musique pour piano
Mélissa Petit (soprano), Isabelle Druet (mezzo), Cyrille Dubois (tenor), Thomas Dolié (baritone), Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth, Orchestre national de Metz Grand Est, David Reiland et al
As always with Bru Zane, the production values are high, both in terms of the immaculate recorded sound and the beautifully illustrated accompanying book with its scholarly articles. It all... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2025, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Opera
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French Opera Arias
RecommendedRoberto Alagna (tenor)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, London Voices, Bertrand de Billy
This is an interestingly put together recital which manages to illuminate much of the tenor repertoire in 19th century French opera (and early) whilst mixing the known and the unknown. Of course,... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2001, Winner - Recital
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There's no problem with the quality here: indeed it's excellent in every department of this traditionally underachieving orchestra, which respond to Järvi's energised conducting with much panache. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Essential Opera
RecommendedLuciano Pavarotti, Kiri Te Kanawa, Placido Domingo & Joan Sutherland
London Philharmonic and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Georg Solti and Herbert von Karajan
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Best-Selling Recording
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