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Chausson - Les Papillons, Op. 2 No. 3 (Gautier)
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I’d suggest that not since Martin Isepp accompanied Janet Baker on that bargain Saga long-player from many moons ago has a British singer made a more auspicious recital debut on record. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2024, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Fleur de mon âme
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), Simon Lepper (piano), Royal Scottish National Orchestra Soloists
The intimacy and tenderness which she and Lepper bring to Hahn's evergreen À Chloris is worth the price of the disc alone, but everything here is utterly beguiling, with the strings of the RSNO... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2021
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Gérard Souzay
RecommendedGérard Souzay (baritone), Jacqueline Bonneau (piano)
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Edouard Lindenberg
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Building a Library, October 2006, Historic Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2004, Winner - Historic Reissue
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Un Frisson Français - A century of French song
Susan Graham (mezzo soprano) & Malcolm Martineau (piano)
The familiar here appears in unusual contexts and alongside a scattering of rarities. The performers are at one in their fluency, delicate rubato and avoidance of Anglo-Saxon archness, within... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Vocal Finalist
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Special offer. Opium (Mélodies Françaises)
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) & Jérôme Ducros (piano)
Philippe Jaroussky has a wide pitch range and absolute control throughout, with no tenseness at the top of hooting at the bottom, and his floated high notes are ravishing. Jérôme Ducros's accompanying... —
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Melodies Francaises pour Bariton
Gerard Souzay (baritone), Jacqueline Bonneau (piano)
with Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Eduoard Lindberg
France's equivalent of Fischer-Dieskau sings Fauré, Duparc and Ravel with characteristic expressive elegance that transcends the rather elderly recordings. —
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The Songs of Chausson
Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo soprano), Chris Pedro Trakas (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano), Geraldine McGreevy (soprano)
Chilingirian Quartet
With this disc, the music of Chausson really does find revelatory new significance —
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Maria Bieshu: Opera Arias
Maria Bieshu (soprano)
Symphonic Orchestra of the State Small Theatre of the USSR, Symphonic Orchestra of the State Academic of the Bolshoi Theatre of the USSR, Symphonic Orchestra of All-Union Radio and TV, Yuri Simonov, Boris Khaikin, Mark Elmer, Alexander Petukhov
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Chausson: Poème de l'amour et de la mer, Chanson perpétuelle & Mélodies
Jessye Norman, Michel Dalberto, Ronald Patterson, Salvatore Sansalone, Jean-Pierre Pigerre, Lane Anderson
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Armin Jordan
The free-flowing late 19th-century Romanticism of Ernest Chausson overflows with colour and opulence. And if any voice was destined to match this music, it was that of Jessye Norman, whose account... —
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