JULES MASSENET
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE; Massenet: Werther (Complete opera) Julia Gertseva (mezzo) Andrea Bocelli (tenor) / Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Conducted by Yves Abel [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 24/Mar/2005 ] A studio recording of the complete opera Werther by Jules Massenet, conducted by Yves Abel. Andrea Bocelli sings the title role of Werther - which he has sung on stage several times to great critical acclaim (including his USA stage debut).... |
GIACOMO PUCCINI / ALFREDO CATALANI / GIUSEPPE VERDI / OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Maria Luigia Borsi - Italian Soprano Arias Maria Luigia Borsi (soprano), London Symphony Orchestra, Yves Abel [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Mar/2014 ] "The performance that Borsi gives is not just ravishingly beautiful but has a dramatic intensity… It is luxury casting to have the LSO crisply conducted by Yves Abel." Gramophone |
ANDRE MESSAGER / REYNALDO HAHN / ANDRE MESSAGER / MOISES SIMONS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Susan Graham - French Operetta Arias (C'est Ça La Vie, C'est Ça L'amour...) Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano) / City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Yves Abel [ Erato / CD - released 18/Mar/2002 ] Graham made her international début at Covent Garden in 1994, playing Massenet's Chérubin. She has also premièred several roles in contemporary operas, including John Harbison's The Great Gatsby and Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking |
JULES MASSENET
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Massenet: Thais (Complete Opera with libretto) Thomas Hampson, Renee Fleming, Giuseppe Sabbatini / Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Yves Abel [ Decca Records / 2 CD Box Set - released 16/Nov/2000 ] 2001 GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST - Opera |
Abel
The Honest Love [ Dreamt Music/Facedown Records / CD - released 18/Sep/2009 ] From their soaring guitars to the dramatic progressions that inhabit their songs, ABEL allows soulfulness to reign supreme. |
SELAOCOE / BACH / PLATTI
Where Is Home (Hae Ke Kae) Abel Selaocoe (cello) with Yo-Yo Ma, Colin Alexander, Simran Singh, Max Baillie, Rakhvinder Singh, Ruth Gibson & others [ Warner Classics / CD - released 23/Sep/2022 ] BBC Music AWARD NOMINATION 2023 - CHAMBER BBC Music AWARD NOMINATION 2023 - NEWCOMER |
KHAIKOSRU SORABJI
Sorabji: Toccata Seconda Per Pianoforte Abel Sánchez-Aguilera (piano) [ Piano Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2020 ] Khaikosru Sorabji (1892-1988) is one of the most enigmatic and controversial 20-th century composers. Largely self-taught he chose his own way, never fitting into any school or movement, his style is highly idiosyncratic, inspired by late-romantics... |
Fortuna Quartet/Abel
Piazzolla: Oda Para Un Hippie [ Profil / CD ] |
DONIZETTI / SAINT-SAENS / BERLIOZ / GOUNOD / etc
Romantique Elina Garanca (mezzo) / Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Yves Abel [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 13/Sep/2012 ] "...[She] moves effortlessly from top to bottom without ever sacrificing beauty of tone...Fans - and others - need not hesitate." Gramophone Editor's Choice, January 2013 |
VILLA-LOBOS
Violin Sonatas Jenny Abel (violin) Roberto Szidon (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] These three sonatas were written between 1912 and 1920 and are full of entirely characteristic, colourful melodic vocabulary, structured as extended rhapsodies. |