Andrew Foster-Williams
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Gounod: Faust
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Benjamin Bernheim (Faust), Véronique Gens (Marguerite), Andrew Foster-Williams (Méphistophélès), Jean-Sébastien Bou (Valentin), Juliette Mars (Siebel), Ingrid Perruche (Marthe), Anas Séguin (Wagner/Un mendiant)
Les Talens Lyriques, Flemish Radio Choir, Christophe Rousset
Tenor Benjamin Bernheim is a superb Faust, with a bright and lovely lyric voice that is also comfortable in the lower tessitura of act I. As Marguerite, soprano Véronique Gens is an ideal romantic... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Opera
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International Opera Awards, 2020, Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year (Gens)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Winner - Opera (19th-century)
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Opera
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Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
Gregory Kunde (Cellini), Laura Claycomb (Teresa), Darren Jeffery (Balducci), Andrew Kennedy (Francesco), Isabelle Cals (Ascanio), John Relyea (Pope Clement VII), Peter Coleman-Wright (Fieramosca), Jacques Imbrailo (Pompeo)
London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
The combination of technology and the conductor's unimpaired élanmakes for glowing textures and shattering climaxes. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2008, Editor's Choice
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Sullivan, A: HMS Pinafore
RecommendedElizabeth Watts (Josephine), Toby Spence (Ralph Rackstraw), John Mark Ainsley (Sir Joseph Porter KCB), Andrew Foster-Williams (Captain Corcoran), Hilary Summers (Buttercup), Neal Davies (Dick Deadeye), Gavan Ring (Bill Bobstay), Barnaby Rea (Bob Becket), Kitty Whately (Hebe), Tim Brooke-Taylor (narrator)
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Richard Egarr brings springy energy to the score...Elizabeth Watts's Josephine has a mischievous touch. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th May 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2016, Opera Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Weber: Euryanthe
Stefan Cerny, Norman Reinhardt, Jacquelyn Wagner, Andrew Foster-Williams
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Constantin Trinks
The Arnold Schoenberg Choir is excellent: precise and accurate, the women sweet-toned, the men full and solid. Jacquelyn Wagner is an appealing, fresh-voiced Euryanthe; not as smooth or elegant... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
2 CDs
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Handel: Flavio
Tim Mead (Flavio), Rosemary Joshua (Emilia), Iestyn Davies (Guido), Renata Pokupić (Vitige), Hilary Summers (Teodata), Thomas Walker (Ugone), Andrew Foster-Williams (Lotario)
Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn
Flavio has some fine music, but is rarely performed...The aria 'Amante stravagante'...nicely displays [Joshua's] bright, silvery tone...The vocal star is Renata Pokupic as Vitige. Her 'Non credo'... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
2 CDs
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Offer,
Booming Bass and Baritone Best Loved Opera Arias
Lado Ataneli (baritone), Carlo Colombara (bass), Samuel Ramey (bass), Renato Girolami (bass), Kurt Rydl (bass), Erich Knodt (bass), Matthias Goerne (baritone), Andrew Foster-Williams (bass-baritone), Michele Pertusi (bass-baritone), Eduard Tumagian (baritone), Ivan Urbas (bass), Jan Opalach (bass),...
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overall the set is exceptional for the joyous verve and style Niquet brings to this entrancing comédie lyrique. — More…
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Rossini: Aureliano in Palmira
Kenneth Tarver (Aureliano), Catriona Smith (Zenobia), Silvia Tro Santafé (Arsace), Ezgi Kutlu (Publia), Andrew Foster-Williams (High Priest of Isis), Vuyani Mlinde (Licinio), Julian Alexander Smith (Oraspe)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Maurizio Benini
Opera Rara's performance is a fine one, conducted with stylistic assurance by Maurizio Benini and sung by a good cast, able to rise above the music's considerable technical challenges to achieve... — More…
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Davis was seemingly Berlioz’s disciple on earth, and this was the glorious late flowering of his love for the composer…Les Troyens crackles with a theatricality that outshines even the pioneering... — More…Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Best Collection
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Here’s a bright, buoyant compilation to celebrate three decades of William Christie’s pioneering period-instrument ensemble...showcas[ing] an elegant conductor-scholar with more than a touch... — More…
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