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A French baroque diva : arias for Marie Fel

Carolyn Sampson

Reviews (4)

BBC music magazine

2014 August

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Hilary Finch

2014 August

"Throughout, Jeffrey Skidmore and the orchestra offer dependable support as does the choir, but, notwithstanding the slightly over-ambient acoustic, what shines out is Sampson's singing: bright, vibrant, responsive and entirely in tune with the expressive language and virtuosic demands of the period".

Diapason

2014 septembre

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Ivan A. Alexandre

2014 septembre

International record review

2014 June

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Nigel Simeone

2014 June

"This is a lovely disc, a most attractive programme supported by Graham Sadler's illuminating and extremely interesting note ... The whole production has provided me with hours of pleasure".

The gramophone

2014 July

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Julie Anne Sadie

2014 July

"Vurdering: Editor's choice" - "This is a brilliantly planned and executed, musically illustrated biography of Marie Fel, one of the great 18th-century divas and muse of Rameau ... Carolyn Sampson, in superb form, is joined here by the choir of Ex Cathedra, who sing with precision and clarity ... She seems to inhabit the aura of Fel ... Start to finish, Jeffrey Skidmore devotedly shapes and paces the programme to achieve a fittingly vivid portrait of Mlle Fel".