CD, Campra (composer)
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André Campra: Messe de Requiem & Les Maîtres de Notre-Dame de Paris
Ensemble Correspondances (early music ensemble), Sébastien Daucé
This is a superb recording from one of today’s best ensembles to specialise in French Baroque music. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2024, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Choral
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New. Tranquilles Cœurs
Mariamielle Lamagat, Lucie Chabard, Alice Trocellier, Adèle Charvet (mezzo-soprano), Ensemble Théodora
All four members of Ensemble Théodora (who studied at the Royal Academy of Music) perform with dedication and fondness for their chosen repertoire. —
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International Opera Awards, 2020, Nominated - Solo Recital Recording
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Scarlatti: Stabat Mater & Campra: Campra: Messe des Morts (Requiem)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
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Campra's sacred music is built on a solid Renaissance understanding, it seems, and Christie knows this inasmuch as he finds a tempo that is at once tenderly rolling yet also stretches into eternity. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Campra, Rameau, Mondonville
Marie Perbost, Emmanuelle Ifrah (sopranos), Samuel Boden (countertenor), Zachary Wilder (tenor), Victor Sicard (baritone)
Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm
André Campra's Requiem of 1695 (commissioned in memory of the Archbishop of Paris) is the main event here, but the two 'grands motets' are much more than makeweights: Rameau's In Convertendo... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2023
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Nymphes
Virginie Thomas (vocalist), Emmanuel Resche-Caserta (soloist), Maud Gnidzaz, Juliette Perret, Anaïs Bertrand, Béatrice Martin (soloist)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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The direction of Patrick Bismuth is secure and well balanced, and the instrumental accompaniment is precise and clear. The voices all blend well, and the chorus has fine diction. This is one... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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D’Oustrac is dazzling across these various personae, to which she brings not only luscious vocalism but also a blistering intensity. No less impressive is the Ensemble Amarillis…for zest and... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2020, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
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