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French Bel Canto Arias
RecommendedLisette Oropesa (soprano), Sachsischer Staatsopernchor, Dresdner Philharmonie, Corrado Rovaris
Her voice is both pure and full-bodied, with an extensive range in terms of both tessitura and characterisation, allowing her to do justice to the many different moods showcased on this recording,... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2022, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year & Solo Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Finalist - Voice & Ensemble
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International Opera Awards, 2023, Winner - Solo Recording
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Camilla Tilling sings Gluck and Mozart Arias Camilla Tilling (soprano)
Musica Saeculorum, Philipp von Steinaecker
In this outstandingly accomplished selection of 18th-century operatic arias, Camilla Tilling demonstrates just how rewarding such albums can be when executed with the most genuine kind of musico-dramatic... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, Opera Choice
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Opera, May 2017, Recording of the Month
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Ombra Compagna - Mozart Concert Arias
RecommendedLisette Oropesa (soprano)
Il Pomo d'Oro, Antonello Manacorda
Oropesa sings with exquisite emotional restraint, subtly shading her vibrato and colouring her mezzo range with a Schwarzkopf-like radiance and intensity.- — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th May 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Heroines of Love and Loss vocal chamber music from the 17th century
Ruby Hughes (soprano), Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann (cello) & Jonas Nordberg (lute / theorbo / archlute)
Ruby Hughes’s soprano has an effortless beauty: pliant, subtly expressive, never forced. She captures the chaste fervour of the sacred works…Brinkmann and Nordberg proffer aptly spontaneous... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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This is a big voice with a warm Italianate tone and a fitting sense of the legato required for this repertoire. Verismo sobbing is kept to a minimum. Beczala knows exactly how to build the drama... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th May 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2020, Recording of the Month
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Opera, July 2020, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Male Singer of the Year
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Victorious Love - Songs by Henry Purcell RecommendedCarolyn Sampson (soprano), Laurence Cummings (harpsichord & spinet), Elizabeth Kenny (archlute / theorbo), Anne-Marie Lasla (bass viol), Sarah Sexton (violin I), Andrea Morris (violin II) & Jane Rogers (viola)
Her tone is extraordinarily beautiful: natural, warm and unforced, with almost superhuman vocal athleticism — More…
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Building a Library, February 2014, Top Recital Recommendation
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2007, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Mephistopheles And Other Bad Guys
Kevin Short (bass-baritone)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille, Lawrence Foster
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Remembering Tebaldi
Melody Moore (soprano), Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra, Lawrence Foster
Does Moore sound like Tebaldi? Not exactly: a track-by-track comparison reveals subtle differences in timbre and interpretation. But this is an act of homage, not impersonation, and Tebaldi’s... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Francesca Aspromonte: Prologue Music by Monteverdi, Caccini, Cavalli, Stradella & Scarlatti
Francesca Aspromonte (soprano)
Il pomo d’oro, Enrico Onofri
Aspromonte’s diamantine timbre, rich, expressive palette and outstanding care for words make her an ideal mistress of ceremonies. — More…
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Schoenberg: Erwartung & Pelleas und Melisande
Sara Jakubiak (soprano)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Gardner is swift but never careless [in Pelleas]...Erwartung holds exceptional appeal for Sara Jakubiak’s intense restraint, her conversational familiarity with the text and the luminous rapture... — More…
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Record Review, 9th May 2020, Record of the Week
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