Melba Recordings triumph in French awards ceremony
The Melbourne, Australia-based Melba Recordings has won its third award from the Académie du disque lyrique in four years for Turbulent Heart, its premiere recordings of music by Louis Vierne and Ernest Chausson. Performed by tenor Steve Davislim and the Queensland Orchestra, conducted by Guillaume Tourniaire, the disc was greeted with enthusiastic reviews on its release in late 2009 and won the Prix Gabriel Fauré for best musical interpretation.
Tenors Timothy Mussard and Stuart Skelton won the Académie’s La Prix Lauritz Melchior for their contributions to Melba’s recordings of Götterdämmerung and Die Walküre in 2007 and 2009 respectively. The recordings were part of Melba’s historic Ring Cycle – the first ever to be released on SACD.
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Posted Apr 23, 2011 at 3:05 pm by The Classical Review CDs / DVDs » Blog Archive » Leslie Howard makes his debut on Melba Recordings with Rakhmaninov’s Piano Sonatas
[...] orchestral version of Nuit Persane for tenor voice; and world premiere recordings of of music by Louis Vierne and Ernest Chausson, and by Charles Koechlin and Joseph Jongen. In February this year, it released the debut recording [...]