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Rameau: Zoroastre 1749 Jodie Devos (Amélite), Véronique Gens (Erinice), Reinoud Van Mechelen (Zoroastre), Tassis Christoyannis (Abramane)
Les Ambassadeurs, La Grande Écurie, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Alexis Kossenko
The chorus and line-up of soloists is first-rate, with a suitably menacing Abramane (Tassis Christoyannis) and a witchy Érinice (Véronique Gens)...The instrumental numbers (notably the sarabands)... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Shortlisted - Opera
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For the most part, this is a dry-eyed, disciplined account...By largely playing the score straight, it helps Tchaikovsky’s ritenutos to really tell. Järvi keeps the third-movement Valse on the... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2020
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021, Symphonie
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The playing is exemplary, and the beautifully balanced recording allows every textural and coloristic shift to register…Prégardien sings with wonderful elegance and unforced sincerity of expression,... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2018
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Characterful music demands characterful playing, of course, and that is what it gets from these talented and experienced chamber musicians, who throughout avoid any sense of the routine. — More…
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Van Mechelen pays fitting tribute to Legros, focusing on tasteful lyricism and beauty rather than on virtuosic display...He is at his best as the pastoral lover, when the luminous timbre of... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Ensemble Calliopée do the works proud… displaying a refinement of tone that this repertoire all too rarely receives. With exemplary sound from Alpha, this is a self-recommending issue and a... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th May 2009
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Janáček: Rikadla (Nonsense Nursery Rhymes)
Collegium Vocale Gent & Het Collectief, Reinbert De Leeuw
Reinbert de Leeuw and Collegium Vocale Gent are masters of tonal shading: whether attending to top or internal lines they achieve a near-on three-dimensional effect…superb playing and singing... — More…
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Their slender forces and predominantly fast tempos may not appeal to listeners favouring the ‘grand manner’ in these works, but these performances are both vibrant instrumentally and wonderfully... — More…
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Eötvös: DoReMi, Cello Concerto Grosso & Speaking Drums
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Midori (violin), Martin Grubinger (voice and percussion)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Peter Eötvös
Jean-Guihen Queyras brings verve and eloquence to the dramatic soliloquy of the [Cello Concerto], and plays athlete and clown in a finale of irresistible with and imagination. DoReMi, a tribute... — More…
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the musical journey is compelling...Only an arrangement for strings of Lotti’s most famous Crucifixus feels like a misstep in an otherwise ingeniously plotted project delivered with panache... — More…
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