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2024-01-26 05:00:00
Charles Groves (and others) conducts
[…] ^ [33'12]London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis *; London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles GrovesLyrita SRCD389 [BBC Broadcasts May 1973* and April 1980^; this issue 2021][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Royal Festival Hall, London (world premieres)Recording engineers and Producers: not statedGustav Holst:The Perfect Fool. Opera in One Act, op.39 H.150 [62'24]Richard Golding & David Read- basses, Pamela Bowden- contralto, Alison Hargan, Barbara Platt, Lesley Rooke & Margaret Neville- sopranos, John Mitchinson- tenor, Walter Plinge and Ronald Harvi- speakers, George Hagan- narrator; BBC Northern Singers, BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles GrovesLyrita REAM1143 [BBC broadcast May 1967; this issue 2021][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: BBC Studios, Manchester, UKRecording engineer: not stated; Producer: Lionel Salter.Sir Charles' Precious Music Box II:01 Richard Eilenberg: Die Mühle im Schwarzwalk, op.5202 Franz Schubert: Marche Militaire in D major, D733 no.103 Leroy Anderson: Bugler's Holiday04 Louis Hérold: […]
2022-01-23 16:39:42
Tenor who sang Wagner’s Tristan under Reginald Goodall, Beethoven and Mahler at the Proms, and many rarer worksA familiar figure on the concert platform and a prolific broadcaster for the BBC, the tenor John Mitchinson has died at the age of 89. Many of his broadcast performances were of relatively obscure works, leading him to quip: “I think I’ve got the biggest repertoire of useless roles of anybody in the world!” The 38 BBC Proms appearances he made between 1959 and 1964 reflected this versatility. The first two came in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Missa Solemnis, both under Malcolm Sargent (1959, 1960) and he returned to perform the Ninth Symphony on six further occasions. In the earlier years came works by Handel (Samson, Israel in Egypt) and
2020-09-24 07:31:37
The English Chamber Orchestra launches its 60th season with a celebration of its fruitful relationship with Raymond Leppard
[…] figure than his reputation as a Baroque specialist implies, and he composed the music for Peter Brook's film The Lord of the Flies (based on William Golding's novel) and was music director of the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (now the BBC Philharmonic). And in the 1970s in Manchester, I remember Leppard's interesting programming with the orchestra (it is well worth catching Leppard's live recording of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with Janet Baker, John Mitchinson and the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra, available on Amazon). The English Chamber Orchestra was formed in 1960, arising out of The Goldsborough Orchestra which had been founded in 1946 by Lawrence Leonard and Arnold Goldsborough for the performance of Baroque repertoire. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s the orchestra's performances were the byword in stylishness in this repertoire and it is the 'most recorded chamber orchestra in the world'. Full details of the concert from […]
2019-11-03 00:51:00
Wagner - Tristan und Isolde - Reginald Goodall
Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)Linda Esther Gray, John MitchinsonAnne Wilkens, Gwynne Howell, Joll PhillipThe Chorus of Welsh National OperaThe Orchestra of Welsh National Operadir:Reginald GoodallDECCA (1995) 443 682-2 DDD 4CDs[flac & cue; cover, inlays, booklet & discs scans]The Tristan und Isolde by Reginald Goodall when it appeared on CD for the first time soon and inexplicably disappeared from the market and DECCA did not reissue it. It wasn’t until 2011 (I think) that Arkik Music reissued it under license and then disappeared again from circulation and second hand copies that could be found online had exorbitant prices.Earlier this year, Universal Australia, in its task of reprinting many titles from the opera catalogue out or print, edited it at a low-price but without booklet.During these years all those who were not lucky enough to have it, had to settle for mp3 formats or itunes because as far as I know (and believe […]
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