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This rewarding Rameau is a recording to truly savour

Rameau

Dardanus

Cyrille Dubois, Judith van Wanroij, Chantal Santon Jeffery; Purcell Choir; Orfeo Orchestra/György Vashegyi

Glossa GCD 924010 168:37 mins (3 discs)

This is an exciting and full-blooded account of a great opera

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