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English contralto (1912–1953)
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2024-01-09 07:48:00
Aldeburgh Festival at 75: festival regular, Tony Cooper reports
[…] to perform on stage in festival concerts with world-class performers and conductors. And always striving for the best, Britten and Pears brought to the Suffolk coast a host of international stars including such world-renowned figures as the German lyric baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the American violinist/conductor Yehudi Menuhin, who, incidentally, spent most of his performing career in Britain, the Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter and the Russian cellist Mstislav (Slava) Rostropovich as well as the likes of Kathleen Ferrier, Dennis Brain, Clifford Curzon and the Amadeus String Quartet. A coterie of emerging talent made their way to Suffolk, too, that included Swedish soprano Elisabeth Söderström, the American pianist Murray Perahia and the English-born virtuoso classical guitarist/lutenist Julian Bream while the inaugural festival of 1948 witnessed a staging of Britten’s opera Albert Herring at the Jubilee Hall and the first performance of his cantata Saint Nicolas at the Parish Church with a trio of lectures […]
2023-10-08 09:35:00
Musical pleasure: strong & stylish performances from a young cast in English Touring Opera's new production of Rossini's La Cenerentola (Cinderella)
[…] such a virtuosic opera. The work was cut, Don Magnifico (Arshak Kuzikyan) did not have his scene in the wine cellar, which was no loss, and there were other smaller cuts. The result was a tauter drama than usual, helped by Christopher Cowell's fine English translation which sang very well.Rossini: Cinderella - Edmund Danon, Joseph Doody, Nazan Fikret, Lauren Young - English Touring Opera (Photo: Richard Hubert Smith)Esme Bronwen-Smith won first prize in the 2022 Kathleen Ferrier Awards. She has already made something of a mark at ETO, singing Nerone in Handel's Agrippina and Marchesa Melibea in Rossini's Il Viaggio a Reims, and she confirmed her bel canto chops by contributing a remarkable, poised and finely sung performance of Cinderella. She has a lovely vibrant, yet expressive voice that was well able to move from the tremulous in the initial duet with Joseph Doody's Ramiro right through to the vibrantly assertive virtuosity of […]
2023-08-16 18:06:56
From entering a competition as a bet, Kathleen Ferrier became one of Britain’s foremost singers in the mid-20th century. Fiona Clampin takes a look at her life and asks why, since Ferrier's death, have contraltos fallen out of fashion?
2023-07-28 00:00:00
Hubert Parry and Charles Villiers Stanford: Orchestral and Vocal Music (Adrian Boult, Piers Lane et al)
[…] [April 2000])Thomas Allen- baritone, London Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Roger Norrington (03-07 [June/July 1996])Timothy Byram-Wigfield- organ, Waynflete Singers, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Hill (08-10 [June 1990])Hugh Maclean- organ, Choir of King's College Cambridge conducted by Boris Ord (11-12 [1957])John Scott- organ, Choir of St John’s Cambridge conducted by George Guest (13-14 [December 1977])Martin How- organ, RSCM Massed Choirs conducted by Lionel Dakers (15 [June 1987])Kathleen Ferrier- contralto and Frederick Stone- piano (16-17 [June 1952])Decca 470384-2 (recorded 1952 to 2000; this compilation first issued 2003) [digital download; flacs, cover and booklet scans]Recording venues: New College Chapel, Oxford (01-02), The Colosseum, Watford (03-07), Winchester Cathedrral (08-10), King's College Cambridge (11-12), St John's College, Cambridge (13-14), Royal Albert Hall, London (15), BBC Broadcasting House, London (16-17)Recording engineer: Simon Eadon (01-02, 08-10, 15), John Dunkerley (03-07, 13-14), others unknownProducer: Andrew […]
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