Bizet
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The press-release quotes Tharaud as saying the album was 'made for the sheer pleasure of it'. This is tangibly translated in much of the playing, across a programme that ranges from Bach to... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th May 2024
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El Nour
Fatma Said (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Burcu Karadag (flute), Rafael Aguirre (guitar), vision string quartet (string quartet)
Clever arrangements allow us to encounter shared visions across France, Spain and North Africa...There’s no tacky Orientalism here...The breathy, soft-voiced ney (a Middle Eastern flute) brings... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2020, Choral & Song Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Winner - Vocal
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Winner - Newcomer Award
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Winner - Song
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Newcomer of the Year
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this is not any tenor, but an artist who aspires to recreate the style of the fabled French ténor de grâce with top notes sung from the head and not the chest...Crisp diction and a graceful... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2023
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International Opera Awards, 2023, Nominated - Recording (Solo Recital)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
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Arias
RecommendedJonathan Tetelman (tenor), Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, Karel Mark Chichon
After music college, Jonathan Tetelman abandoned singing and became a DJ...His is the sort of ardent, soul-baring voice you would want to be serenaded by when reclining on a chaise longue somewhere... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th August 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2022, Recording of the Month
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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
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Young Talent of the Year
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Offer,
Il Tenore RecommendedFreddie De Tommaso (tenor), with Lise Davidsen (soprano), Natalya Romaniw (soprano), Aigul Akhmetshina (mezzo)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Paolo Arrivabeni
iHe starts with Tosca and proves a natural Puccinian, producing a steady stream of spun tone in ‘Recondita armonia’…Better yet is Cavaradossi’s ‘E lucevan le stelle’, as De Tommaso reveals himself... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th June 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Male Singer of the Year & Solo Vocal
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L'Opéra
Recommendeddeluxe version
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Sonya Yoncheva (soprano), Ludovic Tézier (baritone)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Bertrand de Billy
Kaufmann is a consummate artist who rethinks everything that he sings…You can almost forgive the hooded, crooner-like tone that [he] favours when his characters are interrogating their souls.... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th September 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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International Opera Awards, 2018, Nominated - Solo Recital
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Gens is in fine voice – indeed, she seems to be in her prime. Her diction is as always immaculate and she produces a stream of elegant tone…and the required vocal heft to ride Massenet’s orchestra... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th June 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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International Opera Awards, 2018, Winner - Solo Recital
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Recital
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International Classical Music Awards, 2018, Winner - Vocal Recital
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Bizet: Carmen Suite No. 1, Symphony & Gounod: Petite Symphonie
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, François Leleux
The SCO have a thrilling way with Bizet…[The Symphony] bubbles along with infectious delight in the SCO’s hands – I could listen to them playing this all day — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, Orchestral Choice
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Séguedilles
RecommendedMarianne Crebassa (mezzo), Orchestre et Choeur du National du Capitole de Toulouse, Ben Glassberg; Thibaut Garcia (guitar), Alphonse Cemin (piano)
Crebassa is in tremendous voice throughout, her lower registers dark and burnished, her top notes warm, clear and effortless...Outstanding, every single second of it. — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2021, Editor's Choice
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Bizet: Carmen
RecommendedMagdalena Kožená (Carmen), Jonas Kaufmann (Don José), Genia Kühmeier (Micaëla), Kostas Smoriginas (Escamillo), Christian van Horn (Zuniga), Andrè Schuen (Moralès), Christina Landshammer (Frasquita), Rachel Frenkel (Mercédès), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (Remendado) & Simone del Savio (Dancairo)
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this studio recording of Bizet’s opera compels attention for a variety of reasons...[Rattle and Kozena] stress their wish to return to the “chamber feeling” of the French tradition into which... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th August 2012
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