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Nov 2021
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Jeanine De Bique in her new album of Bar...

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The soprano Jeanine De Bique has released her first solo album, 'Mirrors', with Concerto Köln, for Berlin Classics. Gramophone's James Jolly caught up with her to talk about the recording, as well as Rameau's Platée, also just out from Harmonia Mundi, as she start rehearsals in Paris for Handel's Alcina at the Salle Garner.

This Gramophone Podcast is given in association with Leipzig – the City of Music.

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