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This eclectic, if not eccentric song recital by the musically promiscuous French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky should not work. That it does, and so convincingly, is down to the fastidious... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th October 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Patricia Petibon: Melancolia
Spanish Arias and Songs
Patricia Petibon (soprano), with Susan Manoff, Joël Grare, with Daniel Manzanas
Orquesta nacional de España, Josep Pons
There's a pleasingly rich core to Petibon's voice besides the coloratura heights she's renowned for. She performs with total commitment and without fear and this injects everything she sings... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2012, Editor's Choice
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The Bridge CD is a live performance from the 2004 Caramoor Festival. Its star, without a doubt, is the great mezzo Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, who died less than two years later. ...Hunt Lieberson... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2008, Editor's Choice
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Folksongs
Nora Gubisch (mezzo soprano) & Alain Altinoglu (piano), Gérard Caussé (viola), Raphaël Perraud (cello), Bastien Pelat (flute), Raphaël Sévère (clarinet), Iris Torossian (harp), Adrien Perruchon, Camille Baslé (percussion)
Gubisch manages to suggest the presence of Berberian in a remarkable way in the Berio, though she certainly does not try to imitate her; the accompaniment is as sensitive as could be imagined...I'd... —
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Recorded near the start of her career, the Spanish soprano here sings art songs and folk songs in her own language, with impeccable technique, style and expressive power. Her piano accompanist... —
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España!
Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano), Richard Jackson (baritone), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Felicity Lott (soprano)
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Asturiana
Highly melodic and atmospheric ‘songs without words’ by Spanish and Argentinean composers De Falla, Granados, Ginastera, Guastavino, Montsalvatge and Buchardo, transcribed by Kashkashian and Levin
Kim Kashkashian (viola) & Robert Levin (piano)
It looks like a standard song recital, yet it's played on the viola. …the opening excerpt from Falla's Seven Popular Songs… turns up later in its usual context to hypnotic effect: slower than... —
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