Willard White
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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
RecommendedWillard White, Cynthia Haymon, Damon Evans, Cynthia Clarey, Harolyn Blackwell, Bruce Hubbard, Marietta Simpson & Gregg Baker
Glyndebourne Chorus & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
Glyndebourne's epoch-making production, taken to the recording studio two years later, helped cement the work's reputation as one of the greatest 20th-century operas. —
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Gramophone Awards, 1989, Winner - Opera
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Mozart: Requiem
RecommendedBarbara Bonney, Anne Sofie von Otter, Hans Peter Blochwitz & Willard White
Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
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Building a Library, February 2016, Also Recommended
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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (highlights)
RecommendedWillard White, Cynthia Haymon, Damon Evans, Cynthia Clarey, Harolyn Blackwell, Bruce Hubbard
Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle
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Handel: Acis and Galatea
RecommendedNorma Burrowes (Galatea), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Acis), Martyn Hill (Damon), Willard White (Polyphemus) & Paul Elliot (Corydon)
The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
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Gramophone Awards, 1978, Winner - Early Music
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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
RecommendedWillard White (Porgy), Cynthia Haymon (Bess), Gregg Baker (Crown), Harolyn Blackwell (Clara), Cynthia Clarey (Serena), Marietta Simpson (Maria), Damon Evans (Sportin' Life)
Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle, production direction by Trevor Nunn
In an ideal world, operatic recordings would always evolve in this way...We've a real sense here of Gershwin's community, a feeling of oneness with the piece from singers who've not only lived... —
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
RecommendedWillard White, Cynthia Haymon, Damon Evans
Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle
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Gramophone Awards, 1989, Winner - Opera
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Handel: Acis and Galatea
RecommendedNorma Burrowes (Galatea), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Acis), Martyn Hill (Damon), Willard White (Polyphemus)
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Gardiner's 1978 disc with his newly founded English Baroque Soloists shows few signs of its age. Rolfe Johnson's mellifluous Acis is still the best on disc, although White is too genteel as... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1978, Winner - Early Music
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Britten: Gloriana
RecommendedJosephine Barstow, Yvonne Kenny, Della Jones, Philip Langridge, John Mark Ainsley, Jonatham Summers, Alan Opie and Bryn Terfel
Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Sir Charles Mackerras
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Gramophone Awards, 1979, Best of Category - Opera
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Adams, J: El Niño
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Dawn Upshaw, Willard White
Theatre of Voices, London Voices, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano
John Adams's nativity oratorio is a winner, a very palpable hit - an intelligent, emotional and sometimes magical re-telling of the old, old story from a new perspective...you can tell the cast... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2001, Editor's Choice
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Tippett: A Child of Our Time
Cynthia Haymon (soprano), Cynthia Clarey (alto), Damon Evans (tenor), Willard White (bass)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Richard Hickox
