Magdalena Kozená
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Janáček: Katya Kabanova
RecommendedAmanda Majeski (Katya), Katarina Dalayman (Kabanicha), Simon O'Neill (Boris), Andrew Staples (Tichon), Magdalena Kozená (Varvara), Ladislav Elgr (Kudrjas), Pavlo Hunka (Dikój)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle
Rattle and his recording engineers have produced a Katya that sound s magnificent both in its attention to musical detail and in those sudden orchestral climaxes that seem to sweep nature itself... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd February 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2024, Recording of the Month
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Handel: Alcina RecommendedMagdalena Kožená (Alcina), Anna Bonitatibus (Ruggiero), Erin Morley (Morgana), Elizabeth DeShong (Bradamante), Alois Mühlbacher (Oberto), Alex Rosen (Melisso), Valerio Contaldo (Oronte)
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
The orchestra plays with fastidious attention to Handel’s ever-changing palette, and its support for the singers – particularly with the obbligatos – is unfailingly sensitive. And the singers... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th February 2024
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Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
RecommendedChristian Gerhaher (Pelléas), Magdalena Kožená (Mélisande), Bernarda Fink (Geneviève), Franz-Josef Selig (Arkel), Gerald Finley (Golaud), Elias Mädler (Yniold), Joshua Bloom ((Shepherd/Doctor)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
Kožená’s Melisande has a firm streak of red-blooded coquettish defiance that is effective, even if it belies the character’s customary blanched fragility. Christian Gerhaher’s Pélleas is similarly... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th October 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Opera
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Opera Recording (20th/21st century)
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Opera
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Bizet: Carmen
RecommendedMagdalena Kožená (Carmen), Jonas Kaufmann (Don José), Genia Kühmeier (Micaëla), Kostas Smoriginas (Escamillo), Christian van Horn (Zuniga), Andrè Schuen (Moralès), Christina Landshammer (Frasquita), Rachel Frenkel (Mercédès), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (Remendado) & Simone del Savio (Dancairo)
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this studio recording of Bizet’s opera compels attention for a variety of reasons...[Rattle and Kozena] stress their wish to return to the “chamber feeling” of the French tradition into which... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th August 2012
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Kožená’s dramatic and vocal powers are wonderfully displayed in Gasparini’s kaleidoscope aria ‘Ombre, cure, sospetti’ (with its unrestrained runs and the bursts of emotion in its recitative-like... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Vocal
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year
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Handel Gold RecommendedKiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), Cecilia Bartoli, Plácido Domingo, Joan Sutherland, Anne Sofie von Otter, Luciano Pavarotti, Renée Fleming, Rolando Villazón, Joyce DiDonato, Russell Oberlin, Nigel Robson, Kathleen Ferrier, Bryn Terfel, Janet Baker, Magdalena Kozena, Grace...
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Martinu - Music from the opera Juliette
RecommendedMagdalena Kožená (Juliette), Steve Davislim (Michel), Frédéric Goncalves, Michéle Lagrange & Nicolas Testé
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
…the ardour of the exchanges are superbly captured by Mackerras and his instrumentalists. Magdalena Kožená is magnificent as the volatile Julietta and is excellently matched by Steve Davislim's... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th May 2009
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Opera Finalist
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Recital
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Opera, July 2009, Recording of the Month
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2009
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…Magdalena Kožená beguiles and enchants throughout this captivating collection. The Czech mezzo's mature voice combines radiant purity with burnished intensity and…she negotiates Handel's quick-fire... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2007, Choral & Song Choice
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Record Review, December 2007, Critics Disc of the Year
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Gluck: Paride ed Elena
Magdalena Kozená (Paride), Susan Gritton (Elena), Carolyn Sampson (Amore), Gillian Webster (Pallade)
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh
Paride el Elena contains much striking and sensuously beautiful music, and this new set does it proud. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2005, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2005, Editor's Choice
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Kožená teams up with crack period band La Cetra, whose virtuoso solo contributions are a delight, yet the voice isn't quite what it was - more diffuse, painting with broader tonal brushstrokes.... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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