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Verdi: Aida
RecommendedAnja Harteros (Aida), Jonas Kaufmann (Radamès), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Amneris), Ludovic Tezier (Amonasro), Erwin Schrott (Ramfis), Marco Spotti (Il Re d'Egitto), Paolo Fanale (Un Messaggero), Eleonora Buratto (Sacerdotessa)
Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Coro dell'Accademia...
Anja Harteros can boast both the high-octane tone and the necessary level of dramatic expression to make Aida credibly three dimensional…[Ekaterina Semenchuk makes] many subtle observations pertinent... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd October 2015
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2015, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, Disc of the Month
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Record Review, October 2015, Recording of the Week
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Building a Library, April 2017, Also Recommended
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Disc of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Opera Winner
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2015, Winner - Opéra
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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... — More…
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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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Listening to the music composed for [Duprez] by a generation of French composers, you can understand the excitement he caused…this CD is more than musical archaeology. Spyres is a magnificent... — More…
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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, Nominated - Solo Recital
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Opera, October 2017, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Recital
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Paris, mon amour
RecommendedSonya Yoncheva (soprano), Etienne Dupuis (baritone), Celso Albelo (tenor)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Frederic Chaslin
gleaming, virtuoso singing. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th April 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Recital
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Opera, May 2015, Recording of the Month
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Verdi: Otello
RecommendedSimon O’Neill (Otello), Gerald Finley (Iago), Anne Schwanewilms (Desdemona), Allan Clayton (Cassio), Ben Johnson (Roderigo), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Lodovico), Matthew Rose (Montano), Lukas Jakobski (Herald) & Eufemia Tufano (Emilia)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis
everything contributes to accentuating extremes: Colin Davis gets the LSO, in shattering form, to play chords like cannon shots...The two male leads are superb: Simon O'Neill is the most complete... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st November 2010
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Opera
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2010, Editor's Choice
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Verdi: La forza del destino
RecommendedAnja Harteros (Leonora), Jonas Kaufmann (Alvaro), Ludovic Tézier (Carlo), Nadia Krasteva (Preziosilla), Vitalij Kowaljow (Padre Guardiano), Renato Girolami (Fra Melitone)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester & Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Asher Fisch (conductor) & Martin Kušej (director)
A large part of the characterisation comes from the sheer quality of Harteros’s singing, poised and perfectly shaped, with an impeccable sense of style, the voice itself slightly hazy in colour... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2016, DVD of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Opera
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Building A Library, February 2019, Also Recommended
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This is the first operatic recital disc of the greatest lyric baritone of our time, indeed one of the greatest of any time. Everything is built… on superb breath control and a remarkable capacity... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2006, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2006, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Recital
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Verdi: Don Carlo
RecommendedFive-act version, sung in Italian
Rolando Villazon (Don Carlo), Marina Poplavskaya (Elisabetta di Valois), Simon Keenlyside (Rodrigo), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Philip II), Sonia Ganassi (Eboli), Eric Halfvarson (Grand Inquisitor)
Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano, Nicholas Hytner
the love-torn relationship of the titular prince and the fiancée stolen from him by his father the king is sensitively staged and played: Rolando Villazon (in less uncertain voice than reportedly... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Winner - DVD Performance
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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... — More…
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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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Verdi Heroines
RecommendedAngela Gheorghiu (soprano)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Chailly
Gheorghiu displays her Verdian skills, her formidable technique and expressive power pushed to their limits but ultimately convincing. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2000, Winner - Recital
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Gramophone Awards, 2001, Winner - Classic FM People's Choice Award
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