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Crazy Girl Crazy: Music by Gershwin, Berg and Berio
Recommendedincluding bonus documentary DVD
Barbara Hannigan (soprano/conductor)
Ludwig Orchestra
Crazy Girl Crazy is an album that – just like its muse and protagonist – flouts the rules…The litheness of Hannigan’s voice beguiles, so that the near-segue into the Lulu Suite (1934) comes... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd September 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, Recording of the month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Solo Recording - voice (Oratorio/Concert/Lied)
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Special offer. Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment
RecommendedNatalie Dessay (Marie), Juan Diego Flórez (Tonio), Felicity Palmer (La Marquise de Birkenfeld), Alessandro Corbelli (Sulpice), Donald Maxwell (Hortensius), Dawn French (La Duchesse de Crackentorp)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Bruno Campanella
Laurent Pelly's production of Donizetti's opéra comique was one of the highlights of the Royal Opera's 2006-7 season, and viewing this well-produced DVD of the show it's perfectly obvious why.... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - DVD
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2008, DVD Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, DVD of the Year
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Special offer. Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust
RecommendedMichael Spyres (Faust), Joyce DiDonato (Marguerite), Nicolas Courjal (Méphistophélès), Alexandre Duhamel (Brander)
Coro Gulbenkian, Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, John Nelson
Nelson has a great feel for the weird structure of the piece, with its sudden lurches of pace and location...Nelson’s pacing is uncannily ‘right’; he’s not one to force Berlioz, period-style,... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, November 2019, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd November 2019
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year (DiDonato)
2 CDs + DVD Video
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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 & Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3
RecommendedGrigory Sokolov (piano)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Trevor Pinnock, Yan Pascal Tortelier
Sokolov is now on a don't-touch-me pinnacle...the two concertos here present the zenith of his art. An ideal partnership with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra under Trevor Pinnock's direction performing... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th March 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2017, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Special offer. Giordano, U: Andrea Chénier
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (Andrea Chénier), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Maddalena de Coigny), Željko Lučić (Carlo Gérard), Denyce Graves (Bersi), Elena Zilio (Madelon), Rosalind Plowright (Contessa de Coigny), Roland Wood (Roucher), Peter Coleman-Wright (Pietro Fléville), Eddie Wade (Fouquier-Tinville), Adrian Clarke...
The Countess de Coigny in sumptuous purple satin is sung to great effect by Rosalind Plowright, as is Elena Zilio’s Madelon…never less than compelling on screen, Jonas Kaufmann is a perfect... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Opera, December 2016, Recording of the Month
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Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana & Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (DVD)
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (Turiddu), Liudmyla Monastyrska (Santuzza), Ambrogio Maestri (Alfio), Annalisa Stroppa (Lola), Stefania Toczyska (Mamma Lucia), Jonas Kaufmann (Canio), Maria Agresta (Nedda), Dimitri Platanias (Tonio), Alessio Arduini (Silvio), Tansel Akzeybek (Beppe)
Staatskapelle Dresden, Sachsischer...
We have plenty of the thrilling, untrammelled and ringing sound that the tenor is capable of at his best...Happily, Kaufmann’s outstanding central performances are well matched, both musically... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th March 2016
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2016, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
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Wagner: Parsifal
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (Parsifal), Katarina Dalayman (Kundry), Peter Mattei (Amfortas), René Pape (Gurnemanz), Evgeny Nikitin (Klingsor), Rúni Brattaberg (Titurel), Maria Zifchak (Stimme)
Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet of the Metropolitan Opera, Daniele Gatti, Francois Girard (dir.)
Kaufmann is the Parsifal we've all been waiting for...Matching his agonies are those of Peter Mattei's Amfortas and Katarina Dalayman's lustrous, secure Kundry, while the relaxed, minimal gestures... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th February 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Opera
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2014
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2014, Winner - Opéra
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Special offer. Korngold: Die tote Stadt
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (Paul), Marlis Petersen (Marietta), Andrej Filonczyk (Frank/Fritz), Jennifer Johnston (Brigitta), Mirjam Mesak (Juliette), Corinna Scheurle (Lucienne), Manuel Günther (Gaston/Victorin), Dean Power (Graf Albert), Bayerische Staatsoper, Kirill Petrenko, Simon Stone (director)
There’s a depth and emotional intelligence to this staging that disarmed my initial resistance...on every level, a glorious achievement. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd July 2021
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Opera, October 2021, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Winner - Video Performance
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Recording of the Year
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Schumann: Piano Concerto & Piano Trio No. 2
RecommendedAlexander Melnikov (fortepiano), with Isabelle Faust (violin) & Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
What is especially striking in this charismatic and illuminating interpretation is Alexander Melnikov's capacity to muster such a wide dynamic range and varied palette of timbres from his 1837... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th August 2015
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2015, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Lully: Atys
Bernard Richter (Atys), Stéphanie d'Oustrac (Cybele), Emmanuele De Negri (Sangaride), Nicolas Rivenq (Célénus), Marc Mauillon (Idas), Sophie Daneman (Doris), Jaël Azzaretti (Mélisse), Paul Agnew (Dieu du Sommeil), Cyril Auvity (Morphée), Bernard Deletre (Le Temps/Le Fleuve Sangar), Les Arts Florissants,...
These excellent singer-actors tread a fine line between sincerity and send-up...Les Arts Florissants excel themselves. The sumptuous realm of le roi soleil is here brilliantly evoked. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, Opera Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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