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The playing of the Basel Chamber Orchestra is admirable throughout, and the cello soloist shamefully uncredited is eloquent in the symphonic slow movements. Antonini's complete Haydn cycle is... —
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Beethoven: Missa solemnis
Chen Reiss (soprano), Varduhi Abrahamyan (mezzo), Daniel Behle (tenor), Tareq Nazmi (bass)
Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, Audi Jugendchorakademie, Jérémie Rhorer
It is Jérémie Rhorer’s uncompromising eloquence which bespeaks faith in the sublime greatness of this work, imparting its mysteries to the listener in ways that are as personally touching as... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2025, Choral & Song Choice
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Ferrum Splendidum
RecommendedFlorian Sempey (baritone), Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Chœur de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux, Victor Jacob
In the booklet notes Sempey mentions the dedication and hard work that he has put in to expand the range of what he could do beyond Rossini, and the evidence of that here is ample. As soon as... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th November 2024
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Niquet’s fluid lines heighten the drama by drawing out crucial words in long, upswelling crescendos, punctuated at climaxes by pungent brass and woodwinds...His performers apply dynamics with... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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The playing of Ensemble Masques is suitably lip-smacking, Anna Besson’s flute nicely in the foreground sharing the limelight with Hana Blažíková’s pert soprano in Bernier’s frothy cantata...The... —
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 24 & 17
Eric Le Sage (piano), Gävle Symphony Orchestra, François Leleux
You can tell much about an interpretation from the opening bars of K491. There’s a polish to the legato strings, the wind answering in kind, and Le Sage’s entry is sensitive and beautifully... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Concerto
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Charvet despatches the showpieces with agility and bravura, but her velvety voice is particularly well suited to the pathos arias which are eloquently articulated; just occasionally her vibrato... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Marais: Ariane et Bacchus
Véronique Gens, David Tricou, Philippe Estèphe, Hélène Carpentier, Marie Perbost, David Witczak, Tomislav Lavoie, Judith van Wanroij, Mathias Vidal, David Witczak, Le Concert Spirituel, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Hervé Niquet
Niquet conducts Le Concert Spirituel with characteristic vigour in a historically informed performance shorn of instrumental ‘ trinkets’. The spacious acoustics of the Jean-Baptiste Lully Conservatoire... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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Salonen / Ravel
Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Dima Slobodeniouk
What Nicolas Altstaedt and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra under Dima Slobodeniouk draw from Esa-Pekka Salonen's multi-layered Cello Concerto is fascinating – an exciting expedition into... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Winner - Assorted Programs
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