Recordings
Pinned posts
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WAGNER: Der Ring des Nibelungen
WAGNER: Der Ring des Nibelungen
A Thinking Person's Ring.
Stefan Herheim’s provocative production is intellectually elaborate and emotionally complex.
Recording posts
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MOZART: Requiem
SALIERI: Requiem
MOZART: Requiem
SALIERI: Requiem“The voices and instrumentalists of Le Concert Spirituel bring these works into fascinating dialogue.”
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GRIMES, NEGRÓN, NOVA, SHAW, SNIDER: The Blue Hour
GRIMES, NEGRÓN, NOVA, SHAW, SNIDER: The Blue Hour
“Trippy and kaleidoscopic but also engaging and continually interesting.”
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NONO: Intolleranza 1960
NONO: Intolleranza 1960
“This smacks of champagne socialism: an opera-going elite, in €330 seats, watching the plights of poor migrants set to an ultra-avant-garde score.”
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Ruby Hughes: Echo
Ruby Hughes: Echo
“A moody, melancholy recital that exploits Hughes’s impressive ability to sing artfully at a pinpoint pianissimo.”
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BOWLES: A Picnic Cantata
BOWLES: A Picnic Cantata
“It feels like a lark: the creators clearly enjoyed their collaboration and were not interested in making a major statement. Ephemerality is coded in its DNA.”
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Kenny Overton: A Bright Tomorrow
Kenny Overton: A Bright Tomorrow
“In most of the musical-theater selections on the album, you wouldn’t know Overton is an opera singer, and that’s a compliment.”
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Tim Mead: Sacroprofano
Tim Mead: Sacroprofano
“The English countertenor is profoundly impressive with an exceptionally rich timbre, impeccable control of vibrato, stupendously precise coloratura and surpassingly elegant legato.”
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Barbara Hannigan: Sehnsucht
Barbara Hannigan: Sehnsucht
“Expertly and with infectious spirit, she sings some classics from the years around 1900.”
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POULENC: La Voix Humaine
POULENC: La Voix Humaine
“Véronique Gens is impressive, and her instrument remains in remarkably good shape. She finds the brittleness and pathos in the role without recourse to any cheap effects.”