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The Bamberg musicians are too interested in the sheer, the precise and the subtle [in the Ravel] to stumble into cheap exoticism. The colours are sharp in Britten’s Quatre chansons françaises,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Record Review, 3rd June 2017, Recording of the Week
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Invitation Au Voyage
Melodies by Duparc, Jacques de le Presle, Debussy, Hahn & Boulanger
Stéphanie d’Oustrac (mezzo-soprano) & Pascal Jourdan (piano)
d'Oustrac has a warm, flexible mezzo voice which rises us easily as far as top Gs and which she can float to great effect. Like many French female singers of the past, she has a fastish vibrato...Jourdan's... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Editor's Choice
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If, like me, you’re a fan of Naouri’s handsome, imposing portraits of operatic villains, the soft-focus delights of this beautifully intimate recital of French song might take you a little by... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2020
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Ravel: Shéhérazade & Le tombeau de Couperin and Debussy: Ballades de Villon
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Lisa Wellbaum (harp), Alison Hagley (soprano)
The Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
Anne Sofie von Otter is really exploiting the French repertory nowadays. After her Mélisande and Carmen, and Chaminade and Offenbach recitals, here she tackles Ravel's Shéhérazade with total... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2004, Editor's Choice
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Susan Graham - Artist Portrait
Susan Graham
Featuring William Christie & les Arts Florissants, Harry Bicket & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Ensemble Oriol and Malcolm Martineau, Kent Nagano & Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon, San Fransisco Opera Orchestra and Pierre-Laurent Aimard
This superb mezzo is at the peak of her powers —
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Debussy: Songs, Vol. 2
Natalie Dessay (soprano vocals), Philippe Cassard (piano), Liliana Faraon (soprano vocals), Jean-Louis Haguenauer (piano), Marie-Ange Todorovitch (mezzo-soprano vocals), Gilles Ragon (tenor vocals), Mady Mesplé (soprano vocals), Dalton Baldwin (piano), Magali Léger (soprano vocals), Barbara Hendricks...
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Special offer. French Songs and Arias (1940-1947)
Selected works by Thomas, Duparc and more
Maggie Teyte (soprano)
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Ruhr Piano Festival Edition Vol. 37: Vive La France!
Debussy & Saint-Saëns
Sergei Redkin (soloist), Jamina Gerl (soloist), Mao Fujita (soloist), Inga Fiolia (soloist), Juan Carlos Fernández-Nieto (soloist), Graham Johnson (soloist), Soraya Mafi (soloist), François le Roux (soloist), Sarah Fox (soloist), Victor Julien-Laffarière (soloist), Théo Fouchenneret (soloist), Mi-Sa...
