Music / opera

Le duc d'Albe


Reviews (4)


BBC music magazine

2016 May

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Michael Tanner (musikanmelder)

2016 May

"Vurdering: BBC music opera choice" - "This is one of the most exciting of Opera Rara's Donizetti recordings ... The several magnificent choruses are sung with gusto by the Opera Rara Chorus, and supported by a possessed Hallé Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder eliciting fervent and accurate performances from every last participant. The opera only has one female character, but Angela Meade makes sure that her singing makes up for that by hurling herself into this heroic role ... The excellent tenor Michael Spyres, just as exciting and committed. All the cast deserve mention".


Diapason

2016 avril

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Didier van Moere

2016 avril


Fono Forum

2016 Juli

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Gerhard Persché

2016 Juli

"Die gesänglichen Leistungen sind unterschiedlich; überzeugend vor allem Michael Spyres als Henri mit strahlendem Ton ... Ohne Fehl und Tadel freilich wieder einmal Mark Elder am Pult des Hallé-Orchesters".


The gramophone

2016 April

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Hugo Shirley

2016 April

"Opera Rara has decided here only to record what is largely Donizetti's own music, which means just the first two acts ... So what we have is but a torso, tantalising and inevitably positing several major what-ifs. And it's all the more tantalising since the first two acts are dispatched with all the style and élan we've come to expect from Mark Elder in this music, here with the Hallé. He brings conviction, stylistic nous and a wonderful airy clarity to the score".