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singer and actress
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- mezzo-soprano
- United Kingdom
- opera singer
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2024-01-22 17:31:14
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2023-12-22 00:00:00
Vaughan Williams Christmas Music, Christmas Baroque, Orchestral Christmas & On Chritmas Night (Richard Hickox, Marc Taddei, Charles Gerhardt & Andrew Nethsingha)
[…] (1928) * [16'41]16 - 24 Nine Carols for male voices (1941) [25'49]Hugh Rowlands- organ *, Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea directed by William VannAlbion Records ALBCD035 [recorded February 2018; issued 2018][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: St. Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead, LondonRecording engineer: Deborah Spanton; Producer: Andrew WaltonOrchestral Christmas:01 - 08 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker. Suite, op.71a [25'11]09 Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride [3'03]10 Émile Waldteufel: The Skaters' Waltz [7'36]11 (arr. Peter Knight): A Christmas Suite ('Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly', 'We Three Kings of Orient are' and 'God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen') [8'09]London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles GerhardtSony AK48591 [recording date not given; CD issued 1991][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans - no booklet]Recording venue, engineer and producer- no information provided. No booklet provided even with the CD release.On Christmas Night:01 John Rutter: What sweeter music02 Trad.: Noël nouvelet03 James Burton: Balulalow04 […]
2023-12-19 09:07:00
75th Aldeburgh Festival: Judith Weir's Blond Eckbert, Britten's Curlew River, Sumidagawa & more
[…] written specially for the orchestra.Claire van Kampen directs a new production of Britten's Curlew River in Blythburgh Church, conducted by Audrey Hyland with tenor Ian Bostridge, baritone Peter Braithwaite, bass-baritone Sir Willard White and singers and alumni from the Britten Pears Young Artists programme. There will also be a chance to see the Japanese Noh play, Sumidagawa (Sumida River) that inspired Britten and the performance will be preceded by a new English re-telling of the story by Xanthe Gresham Knight.The festival will feature a total of 23 world premieres (of which 10 are Britten Pears Arts commissions) from composers including Lara Agar, Tom Coult, Graham Fitkin, Robin Haigh, Joanna Ward, Judith Weir and Ryan Wigglesworth, plus three UK premieres of music by Unsuk Chin and Thomas Larcher. Made in Snape is a strand of new music created on residencies at Snape Maltings by a wide range of contemporary musicians including Xhosa Cole, Mark Sanders and Jason Singh; […]
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