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JOHN CAMERON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cameron: Missa Celtica The Choir of New College Oxford, Edward Higginbottom / English Chamber Orchestra, John Cameron [ Erato / CD - released 27/Mar/1999 ] "The singing of soloists, and the New College Choir and the playing of the English Orchestra are practically beyond reproach. Outstanding; a work to marvel at from beginning to end." MusicWeb |
HENRI DUTILLEUX
Duilleux: Symphonie No. 1 / Métaboles / Sur un Même Accord Christian Tetzlaff (violin) / Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 20/Feb/2015 ] This recording is the first in a series featuring the Orchestre de Paris and its Music Director Paavo Järvi. The programme offers three works by Henri Dutilleux, widely considered the most important French composer of the second half of the 20th... |
TRADITIONAL
Mediterraneo Christina Pluhar / L'arpeggiata, featuring Misia [ Erato Classics / CD - released 8/Mar/2013 ] "Misia is not exactly representative of traditional fado, and that is to the advantage of this collaboration, but paradoxically her singing here is the most traditional I have heard from her and she complements the rest with her very different timbre |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel Goes Wild Christina Pluhar / L'arpeggiata, featuring Valer Sabadus (counter-tenor) & Nuria Rial (soprano) [ Erato Classics / CD - released 22/Aug/2017 ] "Christina Pluhar has great taste. She brings great musicians together with great music. And of course, if you've liked their past collections, you're likely to find something very appetizing in this release as well." (AudAud) |
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CHRISTINA PLUHUR / TRADITIONAL
Orfeo Chamán [CD plus DVD] Christina Pluhar / L'arpeggiata, with Nahuel Pennisi (Orfeo) & Luciana Mancini (Eurídice) [ Erato Classics CD + DVD / 2 CD/DVD - released 18/Jan/2017 ] "This is not a voyage in a humble fishing boat, sampling real folk music at ports from Portugal to Turkey; we are on a tourist cruise - not a brash one, but a refined tour where we avoid any hard edges or uncomfortable truths" International Record R |
FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Stabat Mater / Gloria / Litanies à la Vierge noire Catherine Dubosc (soprano), Westminster Singers, City Of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox [ Erato Classics Red Line / CD - released 25/Oct/2018 ] "French soprano Catherine Dubosc sings with Gallic nobility and passion, but the affecting sincerity of her interpretation raises her above ethnicity to sublimity." AllMusic.com |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vivaldi: Concerti per Violine Op 4 "La Stravaganza" I Solisti Veneti, Claudio Scimone [ Erato / 2 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/1989 ] Originally recorded in 1977 |
JACK HEGGIE
Heggie: Great Scott (complete opera recorded in 2015) Dallas Opera / Joyce DiDonato, Ailyn Perez, Frederica von Stade, Anthony Roth Costanzo / Patrick Summers (cond) [ Erato / Warner Classics DVD / DVD - released 12/Mar/2021 ] WQXR, the USA's leading classical music radio station, welcomed as a "deeply moving and musically brilliant work" that "should enter the standard repertory just as Heggie's two previous masterpieces - Dead Man Walking and Moby-Dick - already have". |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Goldberg Variations David Fray (piano) [ Erato Classics / CD - released 26/Nov/2021 ] David Fray adds a landmark of the solo keyboard repertoire to his Bach discography: the Goldberg Variations. "The Goldberg Variations are a real test," he says. "They are the work of a lifetime, perhaps a work about life itself." |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
David Fray plays Chopin David Fray (piano) [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/2017 ] "Fray uses plenty of pedal, but one is struck by his bright, clean sound, and by the way he lets each piece unfold; the ornamentation is leisurely and pellucid, every note in every arpeggiation fastidiously placed, and his singing line is a delight" |
J. S. BACH
Piano Works (Incls Partitas Nos 2 & 6) David Fray (piano) [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 18/Dec/2012 ] "Fray's touch is exactly nuanced, its technical control aristocratically poised, produces sonorities of irresistably pellucid light and shade. And his rhythmic vitality is acute." BBC Music Magazine, March 2013 **** |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Keyboard Concertos for 2, 3 & 4 Pianos David Fray (piano) with Emmanuel Christien, Audrey Vigoreux, Jacques Rouvier / Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse [ Erato Classics / CD - released 20/Nov/2018 ] "Repeated listening is essential; again and again with true delight. Highly recommended." Nicholas Butler/Marbecks |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (complete opera recorded in 2014) Diana Damrau, Ludovic Tézier, Joseph Calleja / Münchener Opernchor & Orchestra, Jesus Lopez-Cobos [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 26/Nov/2014 ] German soprano Diana Damrau is fast becoming a coloratura superstar. Her recent triumph as winner of Female Singer of the Year at the Opera Awards, followed on from her success in Italy, where she opened the 13/14 season at Teatro alla Scala in Milan... |
HUGO WOLF
Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch Diana Damrau (soprano), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano) [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 11/Jan/2019 ] "We're presented with a welcome alternation of moods which beautifully showcase these musicians' enormous expressive versatility." BBC Music Choral & Song Choice April 2019 |
RITA STROHL / FRANCIS POULENC / CESAR FRANCK / FERNAND de la TOMBELLE
Franck / Strohl / Poulenc / Tombelle: Sonatas for Cello & Piano Edgar Moreau (cello) David Kadouch (piano) [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2018 ] Cellist Edgar Moreau and pianist David Kadouch have some pleasurable surprises in store with this programme of French sonatas from the late 19th and 20th centuries. The composers are Franck, Poulenc and two little-known figures, Rita Strohl and... |
JACQUES OFFENBACH / FRIEDRICH GULDA
Offenbach / Gulda: Cello Concertos Edgar Moreau (cello) / Les Forces Majeures, Raphaël Merlin [ Erato Classics / CD - released 15/Feb/2019 ] "Moreau is a commanding presence, singing tone that illuminates Offenbach's debt to bel canto. His virtuosity can be thrilling…The Menuett [of the Gulda] is done especially beautifully, with plenty of rhythmic point." Gramophone |
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG / HENRI DUTILLEUX
Weinberg & Dutilleux: Cello Concertos Edgar Moreau (cello), WDR Sinfonieorchester, Andris Poga [ Erato Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2023 ] Cellist Edgar Moreau, with the WDR Sinfonieorchester and conductor Andris Poga, performs two concertante works from the mid-20th century: Mieczysław Weinberg's Concerto in C minor (1956), and Henri Dutilleux's Tout un monde lointain … (1970). |
W. A. MOZART / ANTONIO VIVALDI
Elīna Garanča: Mozart & Vivaldi Elīna Garanča (mezzo-soprano) / Camerata Salzburg, Louis Langrée, Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 3/May/2017 ] Richly colourful in Mozart and Vivaldi: Her velvety, versatile timbre makes mezzo-soprano Elına Garanča one of the outstanding singers of the present day, of that there can be no doubt. She followed up her international breakthrough at the Salzburg... |
RICHARD STRAUSS / SERGEI RACHMANINOV / HENRI DUPARC
Morgen Elsa Dreisig (soprano), Jonathan Ware (piano) [ Erato / CD - released 31/Jan/2020 ] "One of the most purely seductive recitals to have come my way for a long time… in Dreisig's introspective, understated performances we hear the Four Last Songs anew, each one fascinatingly set apart from the others in its new context" Gramophone |
GOUNOD / PUCCINI / STEIBELT / MASSENET / MOZART / ROSSINI / etc
Miroir(s): Opera Arias Elsa Dreisig (soprano), Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie Pyrénées Méditerranée, Michael Schønwandt [ Erato Warner Classics / CD - released 20/Mar/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 TOP THREE - Recital |
