W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Requiem (LP) Simone Kermes, Stephanie Houtzeel, Markus Brutscher / MusicAeterna / New Siberian Singers, Teodor Currentzis [ Alpha Classics / 2 LP - released 23/Aug/2019 ] Mozart's Requiem is a supreme masterpiece of the history of music and a work inextricably bound up with the Mozartian legend. Now Alpha's recording of it under the direction of Teodor Currentzis is given a new lease of life in a vinyl reissue. A... |
WILLIAM BOLCOM
The Complete Cabaret Songs of William Bolcom Stephanie Acraman & Liam Wooding [ Rattle Records / CD - released 18/Aug/2023 ] The musical collaboration between composer William Bolcom and lyricist Arnold Weinstein began in the 1960s, but the witty, highly-successful four-volume cycle of cabaret songs they wrote between 1977 and 1996 is regarded as the pinnacle of their... |
JANET JENNINGS
Voices Of Women Stephanie Acraman, Mere Boynton, Catrin Johnsson, Jayne Tankersley, Felicity Tomkins [ Atoll / CD - released 17/Jul/2020 ] In creating Voices of Women, composer Janet Jennings has set to music words spoken and written by a range of iconic women. The project brought together a team of exceptional female musicians including one of NZ's few professional marimba players,... |
CAMPRA / DESTOUCHES / MARAIS / HEINICHEN / HANDEL / etc
Portraits de la folie Stéphanie d'Oustrac (mezzo) / Ensemble Amarillis, Héloïse Gaillard [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] "The enjoyment of a refined French enunciation is reason enough to buy this disc. D'Oustrac relishes her words, and squeezes gestures from them" BBC Music Five Stars. Choral & Song Choice Sept 2020 |
ROBERT LOPEZ / JEFF MARX
Lopez: Avenue Q John Tartaglia & Stephanie D'Abruzzo / Original 1993 Broadway Cast [ RCA Victor / CD - released 28/Apr/2023 ] Avenue Q is a musical comedy featuring puppets and human actors with music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx and book by Jeff Whitty. It won Best Musical, Book, and Score at the 2004 Tony Awards. The show's format is a parody of PBS's Sesame... |
ALFRED CELLIER
Cellier: Dorothy [Operetta] Majella Cullagh, Lucy Vallis, Stephanie Maitland, Matt Mears, John Ieuan Jones / Victorian Opera, Richard Bonynge [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Alfred Cellier was a contemporary of Arthur Sullivan as a Chapel Royal chorister, and would later conduct several Gilbert and Sullivan productions. With its rural tale of disguise and romantic scheming, its jaunty tunes, lively characters and... |
MICHAEL WILLIAMS / ALAN RIACH
The Prodigal Child - A Chamber Opera Stephanie Acraman / Joanne Cole-Rosser / Paul Whelan / Ogen Plus [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 1/Sep/2006 ] Michael Williams' chamber opera in three scenes to a libretto by Alan Riach explores three souls in crisis - the setting is New Zealand but the story is universal. |
Stephanie Finch
Cry Tomorrow [ Belle Sound / CD - released 2/Aug/2010 ] |
LISZT / WAGNER / BERLIOZ
Sirenes Stéphanie d'Oustrac (mezzo) Pascal Jourdan (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Mar/2019 ] "The French singer's gleaming bright mezzo brings soprano overtones to this music, and she is especially compelling in Berlioz's anguished "Ah! Sans amour, s'en aller sur la mer" in Sur les lagunes, and skittish and playful in Villanelle" SundayTimes |
BEETHOVEN / MOZART / CHOPIN / SATIE / DEBUSSY / etc
My First Piano Album Various Artists including John Chen, Roger Woodward, Stephanie McCallum & Simon Tedeschi [ ABC Kids / CD - released 3/Jun/2016 ] Behind the piano's tidy array of black and white keys, there is a whole world of wonderful music. This album is the perfect introduction to the piano and its magic, bringing together familiar favourites and new discoveries. |
BEETHOVEN / DEBUSSY / FAURE / SAINT-SAENS / etc
Proust, or How The Heart Skips A Beat (complete ballet recorded in 2007) Choreography by Roland Petit Ballet de l'Opéra National de Paris / Stéphanie Romberg / Eleonora Abbagnato / Manuel Legris / Koen Kessels (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques / Harmonia Mundi Distibution / DVD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] G - In 1974, Roland Petit, probably the greatest and certainly one of the most prolific of 20th century French choreographers he was the first person to create a work based on Proust's novel, A la recherche du temps perdu, completed in 1922, the... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Ferveur et extase Stéphanie d'Oustrac (mezzo) & Violaine Cochard (harpsichord, direction) Amarillis [ Ambronay Editions / CD - released 25/Oct/2011 ] From Dido's desperate love to Mary's poignant fervour... This sumptuous album, combines the sacred and profane, the cult of the Virgin Mary as opposed to Dido, Queen of Carthage, almost exclusively by 17th century Venetian Baroque composers. It... |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Arianna a Naxos, Lieder & Canzonettas Stephanie d'Oustrac (mezzo-soprano) & Aline Zylberajch (fortepiano) [ Ambronay Editions / CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] "This disc was originally the idea of the Ambronay team: our strong respective temperaments, our affinities for Baroque music were among the many arguments they put forward with infectious enthusiasm to encourage Aline Zylberajch and myself to embark... |
JEAN-BAPISTE LULLY
Lully: Atys (complete opera recorded in 2011) Blu-ray Emmanuelle de Negri, Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Bernard Richter / Compagnie Fêtes Galantes, Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 24/Sep/2021 ] "..the stage picture is consistently opulent, with even Atys and Sangaride dressed ornately, at least until the shattering final act." New York Times |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Béatrice et Bénédict (complete opera recorded in 2016) Glyndebourne Opera / Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Paul Appleby, Philippe Sly, Sophie Karthäuser, Lionel Lhote / Antonello Manacorda (cond) [ Opus Arte / BBC DVD / DVD - released 15/Aug/2017 ] "This is Pellyland, a deeply satisfying comic world with its own style conjured up for Glyndebourne by one of the most assured opera directors at work today" Five Stars BBC Music Opera Choice Sept 2017 |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Béatrice et Bénédict (complete opera recorded in 2016) BLU-RAY Glyndebourne Opera / Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Paul Appleby, Philippe Sly, Sophie Karthäuser, Lionel Lhote / Antonello Manacorda (cond) [ Opus Arte / BBC Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 15/Aug/2017 ] "This is Pellyland, a deeply satisfying comic world with its own style conjured up for Glyndebourne by one of the most assured opera directors at work today" Five Stars BBC Music Opera Choice Sept 2017 |
FRANZ von SUPPE
Von Suppe: Fatinitza (complete operetta recorded in 2006) Stephanie Houtzeel, Steven Scheschareg, Zora Antonic, Christian Bauer & Bernhard Adler / Franz-Lehár Orchester, Vinzenz Praxmarer [ CPO / 2 CD - released 27/Aug/2007 ] "…a splendid performance of a wonderfully robust and tuneful score…" Gramophone |
SCHUBERT
Complete works for Violin and Piano (Rec 1989) Jaime Laredo (violin) Stephanie Brown (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 14/Aug/2005 ] "I do think Laredo and Brown more than worth a listen. It's good to see their set reissued in this inexpensive and musicianly box." (MusicWeb May 2004) |
Jean-Francois Beaudin, flute / Mary Oleskiewicz, flute / David Schulenberg, piano / Stephanie Vial, cello
Quantz - Flute Sonatas [ Naxos / CD - released 11/May/2004 ] Johann Joachim Quantz was the most important flute virtuoso of the eighteenth century. Best known today for his Essay on Playing the Flute (Berlin, 1752), he wrote some two hundred sonatas for flute and continuo, about forty trio sonatas for two instr... |
ASTOR PIAZZOLA
A Piazzolla Trilogy Karen Gomyo (violin), Stephanie Jones (guitar), Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire [ BIS SACD / SACD - released 6/Aug/2021 ] Karen Gomyo's violin takes centre stage in this homage to Astor Piazzolla. |
Le Poème Harmonique (early music ensemble), Stéphanie d'Oustrac (mezzo-soprano), Vincent Dumestre
Mon amant de Saint-Jean [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Aug/2023 ] Fascinated by the interplay of echoes from one past to another, Vincent Dumestre and Stephanie d'Oustrac found an affinity in the project Mon Amant de Saint-Jean, their very first collaboration, and aimed to make it a unique musical adventure: a... |
Stéphanie d'Oustrac (mezzo), Les Lunaisiens, Chœur de femmes audomaria de Saint-Omer, Arnaud Marzorati, Adélaïde Stroesser
Merd'v'là l'hiver: Complaintes des gens de rue [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] It was inevitable that the abundant discography of Les Lunaisiens would one day turn its attention to the Complainte des rues, a 'lament' that tells the dark and tragic story of the wretched nobodies of society who can only protest their misery and... |
HANDEL
Rodelinda (complete opera recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY Metropolitan Opera / Renee Fleming, Andreas Scholl, Stephanie Blythe / Harry Bicket (cond) [ Decca Classics Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Nov/2012 ] E: Renée Fleming and Andreas Scholl lead a superb cast in Stephen Wadsworth's celebrated production of Handel's Rodelinda from the Metropolitan Opera - based on the "Live in HD" transmission to cinemas worldwide. |
BRAHMS
Michael Volle Sings Brahms Michael Volle, Karl-Pater Kammerlander, Adrian Baianu, Stephanie Iranyi, Helmut Deutsch, Hartmut Volle [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 11/Jan/2019 ] A new compilation of Lieder recordings by the distinguished German bass-baritone, now famed for his authoritative Wagner performances. 'I'm very happy,' remarks Michael Volle in a booklet interview accompanying this reissue, which gathers together... |
JEAN-BAPISTE LULLY
Lully: Armide (complete opera recorded in 2008) Theatre des Champs-Elysees / Stephanie d'Oustrac, Paul Agnew / Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ FRA Musica / 2 DVD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] "Christie and his ensemble...surpass themselves in revivifying this 325-year-old score with imaginative articulation and expressive flair. Gideon Davey's designs are as impressive as Jean-Claude Gallotta's choreography. The cast, too, is remarkable"... |
RAMEAU
Les Boréades / Castor et Pollux / Les Indes Galantes / Les Paladins / Zoroastre (complete operas) Patricia Petibon, Barbara Bonney, Sandrine Piau, Laurent Naouri, Stephanie d'Oustrac / Les Arts Florissants / William Christie [ Opus Arte DVD / 11 DVD Box Set - released 23/Jun/2011 ] "the Paris production by Robert Carsen of Rameau's astonishing last opera, Les Boréades, is brilliantly sumptuous if cold, while Pierre Audi's typically sharp and forceful Castor et Pollux from Amsterdam is eloquent. Andrie Serban's Les Indes... |
MAHLER
Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand' Christine Brewer, Camilla Nylund, Maria Espada, Stephanie Blythe, Tommi Hakala & Stefan Kocán / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons [ Rco Live SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Oct/2013 ] "Jansons keeps the music moving and gives himself something to pull back from in the biggest tuttis...And he has a shining Christine Brewer as his first soprano popping those top Bs and Cs above the stave...up there among the select front-runners." |
JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
Proserpine (complete) Salome Haller, Benedicte Tauran, Stephanie d'Oustrac / Le Concert Spirituel, Herve Niquet [ Glossa / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2012 ] |
W.A MOZART
Mozart: Requiem Simone Kermes (soprano), Stephanie Houtzeel (mezzo-soprano), Markus Brutscher (tenor), Arnaud Richard (bass), The New Siberian Singers, MusicAeterna [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 11/Sep/2020 ] This recording of Mozart's Requiem, made by Teodor Currentzis in 2011, attracted great attention and soon became a benchmark in the work's discography! In its incredible ardour and sweeping inspiration, it demonstrates the full talent... |
Stephanie De Failly
Vitali: Ciaconna/Clematis [ Ricercar / CD - released 25/Feb/2013 ] |
Stephanie Dosen
A Lily for the Spectre [ V2 Music / CD - released 7/Aug/2007 ] American singer / songwriter Stephanie Dosen releases her debut album, which hovers between crystal clarity and haunting, dreamlike soundscapes. The songs are well-crafted, demonstrating her excellent musicianship and compositional skills. |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: La Pericole (Complete Operetta recorded in 2022) Stephanie D'Oustrac, Philippe Talbot, Tassis Christoyannis, Eric Huchet / Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Julien Leroy [ Naxos DVD / 2 DVD - released 10/Feb/2023 ] La Perricholi - in reality, Micaela Villegas - was Lima's leading theatrical l lady in the 1770s when Peru was a Spanish colony. Her life was fictionalised in a one-act play by Prosper Mérimée and a libretto was fashioned on which Offenbach created... |
JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: La Pericole (Complete Operetta recorded in 2022) {Blu-ray) Stephanie D'Oustrac, Philippe Talbot, Tassis Christoyannis, Eric Huchet / Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Julien Leroy [ Naxos BLU-RAY / Blu-ray - released 10/Feb/2023 ] La Perricholi - in reality, Micaela Villegas - was Lima's leading theatrical l lady in the 1770s when Peru was a Spanish colony. Her life was fictionalised in a one-act play by Prosper Mérimée and a libretto was fashioned on which Offenbach created... |
MARK ADAMO
Little Women (complete opera recorded in 2000) Stephanie Novacek / Joyce DiDonato / Chad Shelton / Stacey Tappan / Houston Grand Opera Orchestra / Patrick Summers [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 22/Dec/2010 ] "It's expertly staged and acted, and interesting to see the young Joyce DiDonato in repertoire far removed from her familiar one." (BBC Music) |
MORTON GOULD
Derivations / and more Stephanie Zelnick (clarinet) / University of Kansas Wind Ensemble / Scott Weiss [ Naxos Wind Band Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "Bubbling creative energy and humour prove central to Gould's success." (MusicWeb July 2011) |
DUPARC / JACQUES de le PRESLE / DEBUSSY / HAHN / BOULANGER
L'invitation au voyage Stéphanie d'Oustrac (mezzo) Pascal Jourdan (piano) [ Ambronay Editions / CD - released 20/Oct/2014 ] "The conviction, artistry and intelligent musical sequencing of mezzo-soprano Stephanie d'Oustrac and pianist Pascal Jourdan are much in evidence in this thoroughly first-class package." (Gramophone Editor's Choice January 2015) |
BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Une Soiree Chez Berlioz Stéphanie d'Oustrac (soprano), Thibaut Roussel (guitare de Berlioz), Tanguy de Williencourt (piano Pleyel) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 22/Nov/2019 ] We may find it hard to imagine that the composer of such epics as Les Troyens started out as a guitarist... and that his first compositional experience was to transcribe songs, inherited from the Ancien Regime, for voice and guitar. The particular... |
HENRI TOMASI
TOMASI (complete violin works) Stéphanie Moraly (Violin) Romain David (Piano) / Orchestre de la Garde républicaine, Sebastien Billard [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Sep/2022 ] Henri Tomasi is one of the great figures of 20th-century French music. The catalogue of his works, which comprises over a hundred opuses, features many splendid stage and concert scores. |
LULLY
Persee (complete opera recorded in Toronto, April 2004) Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra / Cyril Auvity / Marie Lenormand / Stephanie Novacek / HervAC Niquet (cond) [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 5/May/2005 ] G :- "It's 200 years or so since audiences have seen a full production of Lully's opera Persée, and the Opera Atelier production demonstrates that the wait was too long." - Theatre reviews |