Summer Opera Sale - Up to 40% off
We're delighted to offer a more affordable way to begin or continue your opera journey, with up to 40% off selected titles on CD, SACD, Vinyl, DVD and Blu-ray, until 14th August 2024.
Summer Opera Sale - Up to 40% off, BBC Symphony Orchestra (orchestra)
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Ethel Smyth: Der Wald RecommendedNatalya Romaniw (Röschen), Claire Barnett-Jones (Iolanthe), Robert Murray (Heinrich), Andrew Shore (A Peddler), Morgan Pearse (Count Rudolf), Matthew Brook (Peter), BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, John Andrews
Der Wald may not be such an outstanding piece [as The Wreckers], but it is well worth getting to know. While Harry Brewster’s somewhat naïve libretto holds it back, Smyth’s score shows an impressive... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023, World Premiere Recording (Rediscovery)
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Granados: Goyescas Nancy Fabiola Herrera (Rosario), Gustavo Pena (Fernando), Lidia Vinyes Curtis (Pepa), Jose Antonio Lopez (Paquiro)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Josep Pons
This live recording from an accomplished BBC Symphony Orchestra under conductor Josep Pons reveals the opera to be really a work of two parts…The cast acquit themselves well, if not with persuasively... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2019
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Bantock: Omar Khayyám RecommendedSarah Walker (contralto), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) & Brian Raynor Cook (baritone), Johanna Peters (contralto)
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Norman Del Mar
This 1979 revival…is complete, and much livelier [than Handley’s performance] with equally fine soloists…it’s well coupled with other less rare Bantock, especially Fifine at the Fair, based... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
4 CDs
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Bantock: Omar Khayyám Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Toby Spence & Roderick Williams
BBC Symphony Chorus & BBC Symphony Orchestra, Vernon Handley
It's a fascinating rediscovery on a huge scale, especially in the detail and depth of SACD surround-sound, seductively performed by Handley's forces, Toby Spence appropriately poetic and Catherine... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2007, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2007, Disc of the Month
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Davies, Peter Maxwell: Taverner Martyn Hill (Taverner), David Wilson-Johnson (Jester), Stephen Richardson (Henry VIII), Fiona Kimm (Virgin Mary), Michael Chance (Priest/God), Quentin Hayes (White Abbot) & Peter Sidhom (Richard Taverner)
Fretwork, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta Voices, His Majestys Sagbutts...
The opera is full… bitterly ironic juxtapositions, such as the 'holy' chanting from monks heard against the cynical Realpolitik of the negotiations between King and the Cardinal. Making the... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Opera
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Opera, April 2010, Recording of the Month
2 CDs
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Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus RecommendedBBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers, Andrew Davis and Martyn Brabbins
Birtwistle's opera is about the Orpheus myth, but the familiar story has been fragmented. Each of the principal characters is represented by two singers and a (silent) dancer, and much of what... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Contemporary
3 CDs
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Sutherland could indeed have made a serious career in the dramatic German Fach: she sounds an outstandingly fluent and natural exponent of the titlerole. Conductor Fritz Stiedry’s preserved... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Historic Recording
2 CDs
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Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette Michèle Losier (mezzo-soprano), Samuel Boden (tenor) & David Soar (bass)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Sir Andrew Davis
A top-class performance and recording of a wonderful masterpiece. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, Choral & Song Choice
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Barber: Vanessa Susan Graham, Christine Brewer, William Burden, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Neal Davies
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
Gian Carlo Menotti took as his starting-point for the libretto of Vanessa the atmosphere of Isak Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales. His story is original, but the ideas that fired him can be found... — More…
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Robert Saxton - I Will Awake the Dawn & other works Tasmin Little (violin)
English Chamber Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC Singers, English Northern Philharmonic, Steuart Bedford, John Poole & Matthias Bamert, Diego Masson
2 CDs
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