Erato reviews
Schubert: Winterreise (DiDonato)
Joyce DiDonato (soprano), Yannick Nézet-Séguin (piano) (Erato)
Weber: Der Freischütz
Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Johanni van Oostrum, et al; Accentus Choir; Insula Orchestra/Laurence Equilbey (Erato)
Elgar: Violin Concerto; Violin Sonata
Renaud Capuçon (violin), Stephen Hough (piano); London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle (Erato)
Saint-Saëns: Sonatas and Trio
Renaud Capuçon (violin), Edgar Moreau (cello), Bertrand Chamayou (piano) (Erato)
Contralto (Nathalie Stutzmann)
Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto); Orfeo 55 (Erato)
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 8, etc
Nicholas Angelich (piano) (Erato)
Amici e Rivali (Rossini)
Lawrence Brownlee, Michael Spyres (tenor), et al; I Virtuosi Italiani/Corrado Rovaris (Erato)
A Family Affair (Moreau)
Raphaelle Moreau, David Moreau (violin), Edgar Moreau (cello), Jérémie Moreau (piano) (Erato)
Schubert: Death and the Maiden, etc
Quatuor Arod (Erato)
Good Night! (Bertrand Chamayou)
Bertrand Chamayou (piano) (Erato)
Magic Mozart
Sandrine Piau (soprano), Lea Desandre (mezzo-soprano), et al; Insula Orchestra/Laurence Equilbey (Erato)
Aranjuez (Thibaut Garcia)
Thibaut Garcia (guitar); Orchestre National di Capitole de Toulouse/Ben Glassberg (Erato)
Tudor Queens (Donizetti)
Diana Damrau (soprano), et al; Santa Cecilia Choir & Orchestra/Antonio Pappano (Erato)
Chanson d'Amour
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano), Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Barricades
Thomas Dunford (archlute), Jean Rondeau (harpsichord), et al (Erato)
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Philippe Jaroussky, Amanda Forsythe, Emöke Baráth; Coro della Radiotelevisione svizzera; I Barocchisti/Diego Fasolis (Erato)
Brahms: Cello Sonatas Nos 1 & 2; Hungarian Dances
Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexandre Tharaud (Erato)
Monteverdi: Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria
Rolando Villazón et al; dir. Mariame Clément (Paris, 2017) Erato (DVD)
Bartók: Violin Concertos Nos 1 and 2
Renaud Capuçon (violin); London Symphony Orchestra/François-Xavier Roth (
Erato)
Morgen: Songs by Duparc, R Strauss and Rachmaninov
Elsa Dreisig (soprano), Jonathan Ware (piano) (Erato)
Richard Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder
Diana Damrau (soprano); Helmut Deutsch (piano); Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Mariss Jansons (Erato)
Handel: Agrippina
Joyce DiDonato, Franco Fagioli, Elsa Benoit, Luca Pisaroni, Jakub Józef Orlinski, Andrea Mastroni, Carlo Vistoli, Biagio Pizzuti, Marie-Nicole Lemieux; Il P'omo d'Oro/Maxim Emelyanychev (Erato)
Joyce DiDonato's heart-breaking performance of Handel's Agrippina
‘Maxim Emelyanychev hits the sweet spot in his tempos, dynamics and realisations, the score aiming to mirror Handel’s lost original'
Handel: Italian Cantatas
Sabine Devieilhe, Léa Desandre; Le Concert d’Astrée/Emmanuelle Haïm (Erato)