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Roméo et Juliette


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BBC music magazine

2016 November

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Michael Scott Rohan

2016 November

"Choral & song choice: Davis's reading is slower but grander, richly expansive, glowingly warm and full of subtle atmospheric nuances, bringing Berlioz's contrasting sound pictures vividly to life ... His youngish soloists are equally fine, French mezzo Michele Losier sweetly appealing, Samuel Boden impishly fluent ... Davis takes full advantage of a magnificent SACD recording, epically spacious, illuminating the excellent chorus and soloists vocal and instrumental in sharp detail".


classicalsource.com

2016 December

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Nick Breckenfield

2016 December

"The perfect Berlioz release in the 400th-anniversary year of Shakespeare's death is obviously Roméo et Juliette ... There is no doubt that Sir Andrew has the measure of the published score and he engenders real passion and propulsion ... The voices are as well caught as the instruments. Michèle Losier is beautifully captured in the Strophes accompanied by harp arpeggios, and Samuel Boden's light and fleet tenor fits perfectly the description of Queen Mab, with Davis a steadying hand on the fast tempo marking, just the right side of leggierio without tumbling out of control ... For anyone with a Shakespearean or Berliozian bent, this Chandos recording is a shoe-in for a Christmas present".


The guardian

d. 11. sep. 2016

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Nicholas Kenyon

d. 11. sep. 2016

"An orchestrally superb new version of Berlioz's "dramatic symphony" loosely based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The sound pictures are precise and subtle ... Katija Dragojevic is a gorgeously warm mezzo, and Alastair Miles a stentorian bass in the final Serment de réconciliation".


MusicWeb international

2019 February

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Michael Cookson

2019 February

"Recommended: It is a score for solo voices, chorus and orchestra that is often overlooked whilst by contrast the popularity of the composer's earlier Symphonie fantastique goes from strength to strength ... With this superb live recording of Roméo et Juliette from San Francisco Symphony everything feels just right. Tilson Thomas has selected his team of soloists adroitly, as they do full justice to the demands of this challenging work. The performance of American Grammy award-winning mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke is delightful; she is in such fine form, revealing her assured and secure voice ... There is consistently satisfying singing from San Francisco Symphony Chorus ... they make a deeply significant impact ... This outstanding album from San Francisco Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas of Berlioz's Roméo et Juliette is beautifully performed and recorded".


MusicWeb international

2016 October

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Dave Billinge

2016 October

"It has taken a lifetime of listening to get to grips with The Trojans, but Romeo and Juliet still just tops my list of favourite works by the great French master. This new issue from Chandos, magnificently recorded in the excellent acoustic of the Fairfield Halls Concert Hall, should be considered for purchase no matter how many recordings one already possesses".


Opera News

2017 March

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Judith Malafronte

2017 March

"Critic's choice: Berlioz's very personal conception magnifies certain moments, such as the lovely "Convoi funèbre de Juliette" (Juliet's funeral procession), with its muted, distant choral refrain, "Scatter flowers for the virgin now deceased." Davis and the BBC, along with the sound engineers, create a sense of the cortège moving through space; it's a reverent and atmospheric reading. Overall, the BBC chorus takes the prize here for range of dynamics, clarity, warmth and suave sound. Davis finds tenderness in the textures, particularly from the strings; the performance emphasizes blend and sonic luxury. Samuel Boden's flexible tenor brings liveliness and wit to Mercutio's Mab solo, and the breathless ecstasy of Juliet's reawakening in the tomb is vibrant and excitingly edgy".


MusicWeb international

2023 June

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John Quinn (musikanmelder)

2023 June

"In this present performance, the first of the soloists that we hear is Joyce DiDonato. She has the wonderful 'Strophes' to sing. I greatly admire the fullness of tone and the expressiveness she brings to this touching music ... John Nelson is well served by his combined choirs ... while the members of Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg offer distinguished and highly disciplined playing. Nelson conducts with authority ... Admirers of Joyce DiDonato, amongst whom I include myself, will be glad to see that the set includes a significant bonus in the shape of Cléopâtre ... Joyce DiDonato gives a searingly dramatic reading, full of commitment ... John Nelson is one of the foremost of today's Berlioz conductors and this set shows why he's so highly regarded. Berlioz devotees who have yet to discover his work would find this a good place to start".


Diapason

2019 mars

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François Laurent

2019 mars


BBC music magazine

2019 March

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Roger Nichols (musikanmelder)

2019 March

"There is much to admire: buoyant energy, sparkling lightness ... , mostly well-balanced textures and acceptable if not quite native French. Yet after one hearing I felt something was missing. Listening again ... I pinned it down to 'intimacy'. Of course there are long stretches ... where intimacy is the last thing that's called for, and in these the present recording is unexceptionable".


Klassisk

2016, nr. 43

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Andrew Mellor

2016, nr. 43

"Hvis Berlioz' franske Roméo et Juliette virkelig er et mesterværk, kræver det mere end Andrew Davis og BBC Symphony Orchestra for at overbevise mig. Da Davis var orkestrets chefdirigenst i 1990'erne, hvade de et rygte for kedelige opførelser. Davis lader til at have en lignende effekt på orkestret her ... En trøst kommer med "fyldet", inklusive den atmosfæriske Kongelig jagt og storm".


Diapason

2016 decembre

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Gérard Condé

2016 decembre


Fono Forum

2017 Januar

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Andreas Friesenhagen

2017 Januar

"Symptomatisch für Robin Ticciatis Romeo und Julia ist die berühmte Scène d'amour: Hier wird (trotz 'moderner' Instrumente) die Ästhetik der historisierenden Aufführungspraxis so nachdrücklich beschworen, dass der leidenschaftlicher Satz mit dünnen, vibratolosen Klängen geradezu skelettiert erscheint".


BBC music magazine

2016 November

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Michael Scott Rohan

2016 November

"Robin Ticciati ... has proved to be a special Berlioz interpreter, and offers an individual, youthful reading: swifter, airy rather than lysh, driven by crisp detail and tranlucent textures and Berlioz's vital rhythmic spring ... The Swedish chorus ... sounds more intimate, as does Katija Dragojevic's mezzo ... Andrew Staples sings the Mab solos with verve ... If freshness and vitality appeal ... try listening to this".


Diapason

2023 mai

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François Laurent

2023 mai


Fono Forum

2023 Juni

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Manuel Brug

2023 Juni

"Mit fülligen Tempi und einer feinen, übersprühenden Farbpalette macht sich Nelson dieses originelle Werk zu eigen. Es gelingt ihm spielerisch zwanglos, den eigentlich unverbundenen Klangreigen aus sieben Szenen in ein packendes Stück zu verwandeln ... Der Strassburger Chor wie der Coro Gulbenkian aus Lissabon halten da wunderbar mit, auch der klare Tenor von Cyrille Dubois und Joyce DiDonatos hier fülliger Mezzo mischen sich vorzüglich dazwischen".


BBC music magazine

2023 May

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George Hall (musikanmelder)

2023 May

"The Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra - lynchpin of the Nelson series - offers confident, full-toned playing, with crisp and alert strings, characterful woodwind, subtle yet, where necessary, overwhelming brass ... Nelson himself is fully observant of the wealth of detail that adds so much colour and meaning to Berlioz's writing. The soloists are impressive, the chorus committed and exact".


Klassisk musik

2004, nr. 1

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Berlingske tidende

d. 4. okt. 2003

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The gramophone

2019 February

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Mike Ashman

2019 February

"Tilson Thomas has long been a committed explorer of the Romantic highways. His San Francisco forces provide a typically well-prepared and fluent account of Berlioz's score, slightly (deliberately?) on the cool side, which seems wholly in keeping with the work's intentionally distanced take on the story. The choral singing is well-rounded, just lacking the last degree of familiarity and French fizz that European choruses can bring".


The gramophone

2016 October

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David Allen

2016 October

"If [others] lack a varnish of immediacy, Robin Ticciati and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra have it in their very core ... Ticciati from the first, explosive bars finds tauter drama ... With more than acceptable soloists in Katija Dragojevic, Andrew Staples and Alastair Miles, those seeking a vivid, headier companion to Colin Davis would do well to try this".


The gramophone

2023 May

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Mark Pullinger

2023 May

"The vocal contributions are perhaps less important here than in his other vocal works. That's not to say that John Nelson, continuing his acclaimed Berlioz serie for Erato, hasn't cast it luxuriously. Frequent collaborator Joyce DiDonato over-emotes in her strophes ... but Cyrille Dubois is light and stylish ... and Christopher Maltman sings Frère Laurents with firm, urgent tone ... But it's Nelson and his Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra who are the stars here ... The Strasbourg strings have a warm, glowing sound, the woodwinds blending well".