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2016-10-14, Presto Classical, n. N.
With last week’s Liszt Études from Daniil Trifonov still ringing in my ears, today’s disc is all about transcendence of a very different variety: Bach and Telemann sacred cantatas from Philippe Jaroussky, in a recording of such radiance and beauty that it almost seems sacrilege to pick it apart even to anatomise its virtues.
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2015-05-01, Presto Classical
“French song has always been a bit of a passion of mine – like many people I first got to know this repertoire through recordings by the voluptuous-voiced Régine Crespin and Jessye Norman, and further down the line by singers like Véronique Gens and Susan Graham – but I remember having a real epiphany around five years ago when I came across a new disc called Opium, the first time I’d ever heard a countertenor (and one noted for the purity and sweetness of his tone at that) tackling the opulent, heady music of composers like Massenet, Saint-Saëns and Reynaldo Hahn.” […]
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