‘A wide variety of dynamics and some thrilling top notes bring Beczala success as Massenet’s doomed Romantic poet in Werther … He fines down his voice to a perfect pianissimo in the extract from Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust, in which the Lyon orchestra, conducted by Alain Altinoglu, makes something extraordinarily refined out of the postlude; indeed they are excellent throughout.’ George Hall
Piotr Beczala: The French Collection
Arias by Massenet, Berlioz, Verdi, Boieldieu, Donizetti, Gounod and Bizet
Piotr Beczala (tenor), Diana Damrau (soprano); Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Lyon/Alain Altinoglu
DG 479 4101
Read the rest of this review in the June 2015 issue of BBC Music Magazine
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