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Berlioz - Harold en Italie, Op. 16
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Special offer. Berlioz: Les Nuits d'été & Harold en Italie
RecommendedMichael Spyres (baritenor), Timothy Ridout (viola), Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, John Nelson
This is special. Two extraordinary masterpieces...Two outstanding soloists thoroughly immersed in Berlioz’s music, partnered by an orchestra and conductor with an unsurpassed pedigree in the... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th November 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Male Singer of the Year, Solo Vocal & Conductor of the Year
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Special offer. Berlioz: Harold en Italie & Les Nuits d'été
RecommendedTabea Zimmermann (viola), Stéphane Degout (baritone)
Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Les Nuits d’été rapidly came to be seen as a vehicle for female voice. Stephane Dégout’s superb account makes clear this need not be so…Roth’s period-instrument ensemble Les Siècles provides... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th January 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Assorted Program
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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Berlioz: Harold in Italy
& other orchestral works
Lawrence Power (viola)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze
Manze’s background as a period string player might be expected to give him some particular feeling for this curious quasi-concerto, and so it proves…Altogether it’s an exciting, intriguing reading,... — More…
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Top-flight Berlioz performances with Sir Colin Davis’s incisive conducting, a live-wire LSO, and Tabea Zimmermann the lustrous-toned viola soloist in Harold in Italy. — More…
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Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust
RecommendedConsuelo Rubio, Richard Verreau, Michel Roux, Pierre Mollet, Heinz Kirchner (viola)
Elisabeth Brasseur Choir · Chœur Enfants · R.T.F. · Orchestre Lamoureux, Paris · Berliner Philharmoniker, Orchestre Lamoureax, Paris, Berliner Philharmoniker, Igor Markevitch
The names of the soloists may not be familiar to everyone nowadays (Richard Verreau, Michel Roux and Consuelo Rubio) but with the Lamoureux Orchestra and Elisabeth Brasseur Choir under Igor... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Best-kept Secrets
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Building a Library, February 2018, Also Recommended
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Berlioz: Harold en Italie
RecommendedJames Ehnes (viola), James Ehnes (violin)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Davis and his production team have worked hard to keep James Ehnes's quite ravishingly beautiful playing in focus..It sounds as if Davis sees the work as more lyrical and Romantic...than as... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Berlioz: Harold en Italie & La mort de Cléopâtre
Antoine Tamestit (viola), Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
This Harold in Italy takes a while to get going...Gergiev's pacing of the opening in its use of dynamics...Still, he brings out details in the score, and the third movement Serenade finds both... — More…
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Berlioz: Les Nuits d'Été & Harold in Italy
Antoine Tamestit (viola), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble, Marc Minkowski
Minkowski gives [Harold] an energetic, crisp, emphatic reading. The sinewy sound of the Louvre players' period instruments, though, lends it a rougher, almost folkier texture, against which... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2012, Orchestral Choice
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