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Special offer. Puccini: Turandot
RecommendedSondra Radvanovsky (Turandot), Jonas Kaufmann (Calaf), Ermonela Jaho (Liù), Michele Pertusi (Timur), Michael Spyres (Altoum), Mattia Olivieri (Ping), Gregory Bonfatti (Pang), Siyabonga Maqungo (Pong), Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
It is the attention Pappano pays to crafting the contrasts between passages of intense sensuality and of mechanistic brutality, casting new light on a familiar score in the process, which really... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2023, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th March 2023
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Opera, April 2023, Disc of the Month
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Record Review, 18th March 2023, Record of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2023, Recording of the Month
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year (Jaho/Radvanovsky)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Male Singer of the Year (Kaufmann/Spyres)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Finalist - Opera
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International Opera Awards, 2023, Nominated - Recording (Complete Opera)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Winner - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2023
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Opera
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Special offer. 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... — More…
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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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Freddie De Tommaso - Passione
RecommendedFreddie De Tommaso (tenor), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Renato Balsadonna
Listen to Freddie De Tommaso at full throttle and you’ll need to lie down in a darkened room. Passione is singing in the tradition of De Tommaso’s hero Franco Corelli: stylish and heartfelt,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd April 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2021, Opera Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Winner - Newcomer
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The first thing to say is that Bernheim has an immaculate natural voice – rich, flexible, mellifluous and nuanced. He is at his very best in French items from the later 19th century…Moreover,... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, November 2019, Nouveauté
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2019
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International Opera Awards, 2020, Nominated - Solo Recital Recording
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Opera, April 2020, Disc of the Month
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Male Singer of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Winner - Newcomer of the Year
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Il Tenore
RecommendedFreddie De Tommaso (tenor), with Lise Davidsen (soprano), Natalya Romaniw (soprano), Aigul Akhmetshina (mezzo)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Paolo Arrivabeni
iHe starts with Tosca and proves a natural Puccinian, producing a steady stream of spun tone in ‘Recondita armonia’…Better yet is Cavaradossi’s ‘E lucevan le stelle’, as De Tommaso reveals himself... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th June 2022
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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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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Male Singer of the Year & Solo Vocal
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Insieme - Opera Duets
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (tenor), Ludovic Tézier (baritone), Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
They begin with Puccini – a passionate Rodolfo and a quicktempered Marcello – and end with a chilling Otello, Tézier’s Iago dripping poison into Kaufmann’s ear in the Act II duet, with Antonio... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2022, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2022
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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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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Male Singer of the Year (both artists), Conductor of the Year & Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Shortlisted - Voice & Orchestra
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Boulevard des Italiens
RecommendedBenjamin Bernheim (tenor), Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Frédéric Chaslin
There’s something of the young Roberto Alagna about Bernheim’s tenor, a bright, open sound, unforced and with a sunny smile in his voice. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th April 2022
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Opera, August 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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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Male Singer of the Year, Conductor of the Year & Solo Vocal
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Puccini: Tosca
RecommendedLeontyne Price (Tosca), Giuseppe di Stefano (Cavaradossi), Giuseppe Taddei (Scarpia), Fernando Corena (Il Sagristano)
Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
It is a joy to hear Puccini's orchestration ... brought out with such precision ... Karajan's impressiveness consists of more than drawing brilliant playing from the Vienna Philharmonic ...... — More…
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Building a Library, June 2002, First Choice
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Building a Library, June 2023, Recommended Recording
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Puccini: La Bohème
RecommendedAnna Netrebko (Mimi), Rolando Villazón (Rodolfo), Nicole Cabell (Musetta), Boaz Daniel (Marcello), Stéphane Degout (Schaunard), Vitalij Kowaljow (Colline), Kevin Connors (Parpignol), Tiziano Bracci (Benoit/Alcindoro)
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bertrand de Billy
As Rodolfo, Rolando Villazón is magnificent, by turns ardent and angry and there's a stream of bright golden tone in a ringing 'O soave fanciulla'. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th May 2008
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Opera
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2008, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Great Operatic Arias 22 - Gerald Finley
Gerald Finley (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Edward Gardner
All essentials for a recital are present here: the featured artist in good voice, imagination capable of bringing 13 different characters to life..., apt recording decisions and on-the-pace... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2010, Editor's Choice
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Opera, May 2010, Recording of the Month
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