Presto Recordings of the Year, Gluck (composer)
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This is an achievement on a pretty spectacular new level, and the range of musical sensibility she demonstrates here is vast...her rhythmic sense [in the Ligeti] keeps the music aloft and totally... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2024, Insturmental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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His technical strengths emerge clearly in the way in which he negotiates the switchback turns of Vivaldi’s ‘Cada pur sul capo’ (from Artabano), the cascading melodies of Porpora’s ‘Nocchier,... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Voice & Ensemble
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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[Degout] possesses the rare facility to mix raw muscle with the subtlest caresses…In the infernal symphonies that pepper Enfers, the band attacks the score with an almost fiendish ferocity…Don’t... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2018, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 24th February 2018, Recording of the Week
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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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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Vocal
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International Opera Awards, 2019, Winner - Recital Album
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Rivales
RecommendedSandrine Piau (soprano), Véronique Gens (soprano), Le Concert de la Loge, Julien Chauvin
I don’t know about any rivalry here, but Gens and Piau, both of whom have complete mastery over this repertoire, function extremely well individually (as one might expect) and in duo. They are... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2022
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Opera, June 2022, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Winner - Voice & Ensemble
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Sturm Und Drang, Vol. 1
RecommendedBeck, Gluck, Haydn, Jommelli, Traetta
Chiara Skerath, The Mozartists, Ian Page
The Mozartists play this repertoire with a mix of urgent spirit and plumbed depths…Skerath voices the various heroes and heroines, exploring the full emotional range of the lesser-known parts... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Building A Library, February 2022, Also Recommended
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Revolution: Flute Concertos
RecommendedEmmanuel Pahud (flute)
Kammerorchester Basel, Giovanni Antonini
[Pahud's] sound is by turns silvery as a coloratura soprano, dusky as a dramatic contralto…there is suave and polished playing, too, by the Basel Chamber Orchestra under Giovanni Antonini who... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th March 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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A Tribute To Pauline Viardot
RecommendedMarina Viotti (mezzo-soprano), Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
Imperceptibly Viotti makes them her own, tender but tough in Rosina’s ‘Una voce poco fa’ and producing a cascade of diamondbright coloratura in ‘Bel raggio lusinghier’, as well as an astonishing... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year & Solo Vocal
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International Opera Awards, 2023, Nominated - Recording (Solo Recital)
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Recommended(Limited Edition casebound deluxe)
Philippe Jaroussky (Orfeo), Amanda Forsythe (Euridice), Emőke Baráth (Amore)
Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera & I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis
Jaroussky manages the edition’s higher keys well enough (Vienna’s Orfeo was a castrato alto, Naples’s a soprano) and sings sweetly so long as forceful declamation isn’t required. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th May 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Coming soon. Semiramide - La Signora Regale
RecommendedArias & Scenes from Porpora to Rossini
Anna Bonitatibus (mezzo-soprano)
Accademia degli Astrusi, Federico Ferri
There is much coloratura and here, as elsewhere, Anna Bonitatibus is spot-on...This set, sumptuously illustrated, is an absolute must-have. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Recital
Purchase product
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Special offer. Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
RecommendedBejun Mehta (Orfeo), Eva Liebau (Euridice) & Regula Mühlemann (Amore)
Collegium 1704, Collegium Vocale 1704, Václav Luks
At its best, indeed, in the unadorned unfolding of hell and then heaven, the experience strikes fire in a manner crucially lacking in other filmed Orfeos. Unfortunately, not even this one comes... — More…
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Building a Library, July 2014, DVD/Blu-ray Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2014, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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