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Berlioz: Les Troyens
RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (Didon), Michael Spyres (Énée), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Cassandre), Orchestre et Choeur philharmonique de Strasbourg, Badischer Staatsopernchor, Choeur de l’Opéra du Rhin, John Nelson
Nelson drives the drama with unforced tempos but ample theatrical vitality and grandeur…Spyres isn’t as heroic an Aeneas as Jon Vickers…but sings with lyrical grace and spirit and decent if... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th November 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2017
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Recording of the Month
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Winner - Opera
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International Opera Awards, 2018, Winner - Complete Opera Recording
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Record Review, 25th November 2017, Recording of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Recording of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Opera Recording (19th century)
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Opera
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What is there left to say about Symphonie fantastique? Plenty, on the evidence of this vibrant new recording of Berlioz’s extraordinary masterpiece...Mäkelä gets the strings to shun the comfort... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th June 2025
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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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Special offer. Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust
RecommendedMichael Spyres (Faust), Joyce DiDonato (Marguerite), Nicolas Courjal (Méphistophélès), Alexandre Duhamel (Brander)
Coro Gulbenkian, Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, John Nelson
Nelson has a great feel for the weird structure of the piece, with its sudden lurches of pace and location...Nelson’s pacing is uncannily ‘right’; he’s not one to force Berlioz, period-style,... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, November 2019, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd November 2019
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year (DiDonato)
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Paganini: 24 Caprices
Recommendedplus Caprices by Berlioz, Cervelló, Kreisler, Ortiz, Saint-Saëns, Sarasate, Wieniawski
María Dueñas (violin), Itamar Golan (piano), Boris Kuschnir (violin), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Mihhail Gerts
The Paganini Caprices have energy in the bowing from the outset, confident octaves and portamento, and impeccable double stops...You could listen straight through, but I’d recommend random shuffling... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th February 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2025, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
Davis is always lithe and nuanced, somehow eliciting a diaphonous glow even in the forceful moments and charming the ear — More…
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Building a Library, October 2011, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2001, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. 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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This is utterly adorable from start to finish…In the booklet Piau speaks of her joy at performing this kind of repertoire and her rapture is palpable from the breathless opening moments of Saint-Saens’s... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2019
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Diapason d’Or, June 2019
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th December 2019
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Winner - Recital
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Claudio Abbado: The Last Concert
Recorded in May 2013, Philharmonie Berlin
Deborah York (soprano) & Stella Doufexis (mezzo-soprano)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
The bonus documentary on Claudio Abbado's first year with the Berlin Philharmonic is full of insights…[the last concert] gave the [Berliners] a chance to show in Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2017, Winner - Symphonic
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Special offer. Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette
Michèle Losier (mezzo-soprano), Samuel Boden (tenor) & David Soar (bass)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Sir Andrew Davis
A top-class performance and recording of a wonderful masterpiece. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, Choral & Song Choice
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