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Download, Montsalvatge (composer)
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[La valse] sounds as if at least six hands are at work. This is a titanic, gripping account of this tumultuous piece, combining impact with warmth and projecting with absolute clarity the collapse... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2025, Instrumental Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Elîna Garanča: Habanera
RecommendedElîna Garanča (mezzo), Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Coro Filarmonico del Regio di Torino, Karel Mark Chichon
Garanča's is a medium-scale mezzo approach, elegant and devoid of ugly lurches into chest voice. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd August 2010
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2010, Editor's Choice
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One of the great joys of this album is the sense of genuine dialogue between Kožená and the instrumentalists. This is a singer who really listens in detail to what’s going on in the orchestra,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Special offer. Habanera: Music For Eight Cellos and Voice
Ana Beard Fernández (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Hall (recorder), The Endellion Cellists,
William Vann
Ana Beard Fernández shines throughout with her clear, warm but light voice that eloquently weaves over the harmonies and is suitably acrobatic in the second movement ‘Danca’, performed here... —
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Patricia Petibon: Melancolia
Spanish Arias and Songs
Patricia Petibon (soprano), with Susan Manoff, Joël Grare, with Daniel Manzanas
Orquesta nacional de España, Josep Pons
There's a pleasingly rich core to Petibon's voice besides the coloratura heights she's renowned for. She performs with total commitment and without fear and this injects everything she sings... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2012, Editor's Choice
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Voice and guitar may be a natural combination for the passions and colours of Spanish song, but rarely have they sounded as vivaciously, seductively idiomatic on disc…Isbin’s range of colour…masterfully... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2017
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The Bridge CD is a live performance from the 2004 Caramoor Festival. Its star, without a doubt, is the great mezzo Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, who died less than two years later. ...Hunt Lieberson... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2008, Editor's Choice
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this is altogether a commendable release: subtle, thoughtful, exuberant. —
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Montsalvatge: Orchestral Works
Ruby Hughes (soprano), Clara Mouriz (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena
The BBC Philharmonic are in excellent form throughout, well marshalled by Mena, they and Montsalvatge's often spare, quiet textures captured in typically rich Chandos sound. A very enjoyable... —
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