CD, Offenbach (composer)
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Baritenor
RecommendedMichael Spyres (baritenor), Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Marko Letonja
Spyres has a remarkable range and is a consummate vocal chameleon too...in a truly remarkable finale to his ‘Largo al factotum’, Rossini’s Figaro is indeed all things to all men vocally. What... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th September 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, Recording of the Month
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Diapason d’Or, October 2021, Nouveauté
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Opera, December 2021, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Vocal
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2021
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Voice & Ensemble
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Les Divas d'Offenbach
RecommendedVéronique Gens (soprano), Chœur et Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Hervé Niquet
It is music ideally suited to Véronique Gens with her sumptuous voice and relishing of linguistic nuance... Captured in warm, glowing sound, with the superb Choeur et Orchestre des Pays de la... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th October 2025
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Vocal Music
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2025, Vocal Choice
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Offenbach: La Périchole
RecommendedAude Extrémo (La Périchole), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Piquillo), Alexandre Duhamel (Don Andrès de Ribeira), Eric Huchet (Le comte de Panatellas), Marc Mauillon (Don Pedro de Hinoyosa)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Chœur de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux, Marc Minkowski
In the pit are Les Musiciens du Louvre – part of a growing and welcome trend towards giving operetta the benefits of historically informed practice. You can hear the results from the very first... —
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Record Review, 22nd June 2019, Record of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th June 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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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.... —
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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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Lise Cristiani
RecommendedSol Gabetta (cello), Cappella Gabetta, Irina Zahharenkova (piano), with Victor Julien-Laferrière (cello), Luca Magariello (cello)
There is a real art to drawing the emotive power from a phrase without overburdening it, and Sol Gabetta demonstrates that unfailingly throughout this recital...the cellist strikes right at... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th December 2025
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Offenbach Colorature
RecommendedJodie Devos (soprano)
Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Laurent Campellone
This is a marriage made in musical heaven with the young Dutch soprano Jodie Devos reminding us just how gifted Jacques Offenbach was as a composer…She’s a gravity-defying coloratura soprano... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2019, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Recital
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal
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Séguedilles
RecommendedMarianne Crebassa (mezzo), Orchestre et Choeur du National du Capitole de Toulouse, Ben Glassberg; Thibaut Garcia (guitar), Alphonse Cemin (piano)
Crebassa is in tremendous voice throughout, her lower registers dark and burnished, her top notes warm, clear and effortless...Outstanding, every single second of it. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2021, Editor's Choice
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Offenbach: La princesse de Trébizonde
Anne-Catherine Gillet (Zanetta), Virginie Verrez (Le Prince Raphael), Antoinette Dennefeld (Régina), Josh Lovell (Le Prince Casimir), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Opera Rara Chorus, Paul Daniel
a score that races and fizzes like a well-tuned steam train and telling teases about upwardly mobile social ambitions and an infantilised ruling class...the hero of this splendid set is Paul... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2023, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Premiere Recordings
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Opera Recording of the Year
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Kaleidoscope
RecommendedFatma Said (soprano), Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Sascha Goetzel
Said vaults effortlessly across stylistic boundaries, often via dazzling arrangements by her collaborator Tim Allhoff. And that Whitney Houston track? Even diehard sceptics will be moved by... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd September 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year & Solo Vocal
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Destination Paris
Gautier Capuçon (cello), Jérôme Ducros (piano, harpsichord), Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Maîtrise de Radio France, Lionel Bringuier
This is a lighthearted romp through French pop culture, with fromage aplenty. Accompanied variously by pianist Jérôme Ducros and the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris under Lionel Bringuier, Capuçon... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Instrumentalist of the Year
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