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British opera singer (1939-2010)
- violin, voice
- tenor
- United Kingdom
- opera singer, singer, violinist
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2021-09-03 18:30:33
Williams will continue to perform with the ensemble and is succeeded in the artistic director role by pianist Benjamin Powell, who joined Psappha in 2014. Other members of Psappha include violinist Benedict Holland, cellist Jennifer Langridge, flutist Conrad Marshall, and clarinetist Dov Goldberg. Psappha is a stand-alone professional contemporary classical music ensemble based in […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-06-26 21:56:15
Billy Budd
Starring Philip Langridge, Dwayne Croft, and James Morris, conducted by Steuart Bedford. Production by John Dexter. From March 11, 1997.
2021-06-05 15:00:12
Billy Budd
Performance from March 8, 1997. Steuart Bedford; Philip Langridge (Captain Vere), Dwayne Croft (Billy Budd), James Morris (Claggart), Victor Braun (Mr. Redburn), Julien Robbins (Lt. Ratcliffe), James Courtney (Mr. Flint), Paul Plishka (Dansker)
2021-02-17 10:00:30
A reflection of a lifetime's performing: Benjamin Britten's complete folk-songs for voice and piano in a new recording from Mark Milhofer and Marco Scolastra
[…] which chimes in with Britten's own compositional voice. Britten ignores the folk element, not for him Grainger's inclusion of the variants and improvisations in the melody. Now, here I have to admit that when it comes to Britten's arrangements I am somewhat agnostic. I find that the accompaniments can draw attention to themselves, to speak too much with Britten's accent. Most collections of the folk-songs use multiple singers, Graham Johnson has Felicity Lott and Philip Langridge on Naxos, and Malcolm Martineau has Lorna Anderson, Regina Nathan, and Jamie Macdougall on Hyperion. Both of these collections also include the songs not with piano, but don't seem to include the unpublished items. So this disc is very much a labour of love from Mark Milhofer and Marco Scolastra, and Milhofer writes the informative booklet note. Milhofer's voice is very different to that of Pears, and he makes a virtue of this. The […]
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