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English bass singer
- baritone;bass-baritone;bass
- performing artist, opera singer, music teacher
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Chamber Music for Strings (Coull, Dante, Duke, Goldner, Jean Sibelius, New Zealand String Quartets & Ironwood)
[…] Duke Quartet (Luisa Fuller and Rick Koster- violins, John Metcalfe- viola, Ivan McCready- cello)Black Box BBM1069 [recorded March 2001; CD issued 2002][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans, booklet sourced from internet]Recording venue: Winterbrook Studios, LondonRecording engineer and Producer: Chris CrakerLouise Farrenc & Camille Saint-Saëns on period instruments:01 - 04 Louise Farrenc: Piano Quintet No. 1 in A minor, op.30 * [31'10]05 - 08 Camille Saint-Saëns: Piano Quintet in A major, op.14 ^ [32-25]Ironwood (Rachael Beesley & Robin Wilson ^- violins, Simon Oswel- viola, Daniel Yeadon- cello, Robert Nairn *- double bass, Neal Peres Da Costa- piano - 1869 Érard concert grand)ABC Classics 481 9887 [recorded December 2019 & February 2020; issued 2020][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Eugene Goossens Hall, Ultimo Centre, Sydney, AustraliaRecording engineer & Producer: Thomas GrubbJohannes Brahms on period instruments:1.01 - 1.04 Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, op.25 [41'06]2.01 - 2.04 Piano […]
2022-01-26 23:50:47
BY SHAUNA Beesley In this blog, composer Shauna Beesley shares her experience of arranging Robert Schumann’s Fantasiestücke, Op.73. The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra (pictured The post first appeared on CutCommon.
2021-11-16 17:05:26
Counter-tenor Hugh Cutting wins the 2021 Kathleen Ferrier Awards
[…] from George Benjamin's Written on Skin and Campian's Faire, if you expect admiring. Second Prize went to soprano Laura Lolita Perešivana who studies at the National Opera Studio [see my article about the 2021/22 Young Artists showcase]. She was recently announced as a 2021 City Music Foundation (CMF) Young Artist [see my article], and her in the Guildhall School's programme of new operas in May this year [see my review]. She was accompanied by Joseph Beesley, and sang an aria from Handel's Rinaldo, Delius' Indian Love Song (from Three Shelley Songs), Jāzeps Vītols' Zaķu māte (Dziesmas bērniem), Rachmaninov's Сон (Op.38 no. 5) and an aria from Rossini's Semiramide. The Ferrier Loveday Song Prize went to mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston, who won first prize in the 2018 Handel Singing Competition. Her disc, Isolation Songbook comprising songs she commissioned in 2020 came out earlier this year [see my review], and we caught her recently in Strozzi, Purcell, Monteverdi, […]
2021-11-16 11:07:24
Counter-tenor Hugh Cutting wins the 2021 Kathleen Ferrier Awards
[…] d'Indy Magrigal, two of Dvorak's Biblical Songs, an extract from George Benjamin's Written on Skin and Campian's Faire, if you expect admiring. Second prize went to soprano Laura Lolita Perešivana who studies at the Guildhall School of Music. She was recently announced as a 2021 City Music Foundation (CMF) Young Artist [see my article], and her in the Guildhall School's programme of new operas in May this year [see my review]. She was accompanied by Joseph Beesley, and sang an aria from Handel's Rinaldo, Delius' Indian Love Song (from Three Shelley Songs), Jāzeps Vītols' Zaķu māte (Dziesmas bērniem), Rachmaninov's Сон (Op.38 no. 5) and an aria from Rossini's Semiramide. The Ferrier Loveday Song Prize went to mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston, who won first prize in the 2018 Handel Singing Competition. Her disc, Isolation Songbook comprising songs she commissioned in 2020 came out earlier this year [see my review], and we caught her recently in Strozzi, Purcell, Monteverdi, […]
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