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Steeped in the French piano tradition and with formidable facility, Bertrand Chamayou is certainly not tripped up by the finger-bending virtuosity of Miroirs or Gaspard, while conveying the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Instrumental
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Handel: Italian cantatas
RecommendedSabine Devieilhe (soprano), Léa Desandre (mezzo)
Le Concert d'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord, organ and conductor)
This production is a delight throughout…Haïm retains control by preparing both the scores and the sopranos’ ornaments, her vision giving this carefully wrought performance a fiery intensity,... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2018, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, Choral & Song Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Vocal
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One of Tharaud’s aims is to reveal repertoire which has been largely lost, and in this respect he is resoundingly successful...Everything here has charm, and radiates what should always be the... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th May 2024
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2024, Instrumental Choice
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Desandre’s pure, warm core and skilled application of vocal colours make her lyricism seductive, while her warp-speed passagi are simply astonishing. Countertenor Iestyn Davies delivers the... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2023, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female & Male Singer of the Year, Conductor of the Year, Solo Vocal
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The result is not so much a viewing of Satie though a Cageian lens, but a viewing of the two through the distinctive, brilliant lens of a sensitive pianist, newly converted. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Solo Instrumental Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Winners, Concept Album
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Rameau: Achante et Céphise
Sabine Devieilhe, Cyrille Dubois, David Witczak, Judith Van Wanroij, Les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, Les Ambassadeurs
La Grande Écurie, Alexis Kossenko
Sabine Devieilhe and Cyrille Dubois enliven the title roles with fervent exchanges and evenly balanced dialogue; and David Witczak is splendidly menacing as the evil genie, Oroès. In short,... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, Opera Choice
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Opera, February 2022, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2022, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Opera
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Premiere
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Rameau: Le Grand Theatre de l'Amour
Opera Arias
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano)
Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko
Devieilhe has a clear, flexible voice with easy high notes. She's an agile, expressive and stylish singer, and a generous team-player...The star performance here, however, comes from Kossenko... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2014, Winner - Musique baroque vocale
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The Handel Album
RecommendedJewel-case
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor/director)
Ensemble Artaserse
There’s certainly plenty to enjoy in this generous selection of extracts. Jaroussky’s singing is vital and buoyant, combining a light expressive touch with a high degree of accuracy; there’s... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Opera, January 2018, Recording of the Month
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Classical Solo Vocal Album
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International Classical Music Awards, 2018, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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If Handel’s Xerxes has a showmanship, an aesthetic swagger that Cavalli’s lacks in the lilting prettiness of his own ode to a plane tree, we see the Italian’s skill emerge elsewhere – in the... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th March 2019
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Winner - Recital
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Vocal
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (Didon), Michael Spyres (Énée), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Cassandre), Orchestre et Choeur philharmonique de Strasbourg, Badischer Staatsopernchor, Choeur de l’Opéra du Rhin, John Nelson
Nelson drives the drama with unforced tempos but ample theatrical vitality and grandeur…Spyres isn’t as heroic an Aeneas as Jon Vickers…but sings with lyrical grace and spirit and decent if... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th November 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2017
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Recording of the Month
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Winner - Opera
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International Opera Awards, 2018, Winner - Complete Opera Recording
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Record Review, 25th November 2017, Recording of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Recording of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Opera Recording (19th century)
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Opera
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