Amanda Roocroft
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Special offer. Parry: Orchestral and Choral Works
Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales
Amanda Roocroft (soprano)
BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales, Neeme Järvi
This is breast-swelling stuff...the BBC National Orchestra of Wales gives warmly sympathetic renditions of music which was probably completely unfamiliar to them before the recording sessions.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2012, Editor's Choice
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12 Audiobiographies of Great Composers By Jörg Handstein (in German)
Udo Wachtveitl (narrator), Albrecht Schuch (narrator), Shenja Lacher (narrator), Adam Gaigl (narrator), Florian von Manteuffel (narrator), Stefan Hunstein (narrator), Katja Schild (narrator), Folkert Dücker (narrator), Anna Greiter (narrator), Günter Holzhausen, Max Hanft, Alexej Gorlatch, Bernhard...
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
Amanda Roocroft (soprano), Fiona Janes (mezzo), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Neal Davies (bass)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & The New Company, Sir Charles Mackerras
The sleeve-note of this disc describes Beethoven's Ninth Symphony as 'euphoric', and that is exactly the word to apply to this performance. No passage from darkness to light here, but a pervasive... —
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 1, 'A Sea Symphony'
BBC Symphony Chorus (chorus), Thomas Hampson (baritone vocals), Amanda Roocroft (soprano vocals)
Andrew Davis
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Simon Rattle Conducts Mahler
Birgit Remmert (mezzo-soprano), Christine Brewer (soprano), David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), Jane Henschel (contralto, mezzo-soprano), John Relyea (bass), Jon Villars (tenor), Soile Isokoski (soprano), Juliane Banse (soprano), Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano), Kate Royal...
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Middleton is everywhere a sensitive and imaginative accompanist to Amanda Roocroft, whse intimate, emotionally versatile singing is always engaging, even if there are times when her soprano... —
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Special offer. Elgar - Complete Songs for voice & piano Volume 2
with Reinild Mees (piano), Konrad Jarnot, Amanda Roocroft
Though distinctly mixed in quality, the songs are finely done here...[Konrad Jarnot's] striking baritone is always neatly and eloquently employed. Amanda Roocroft brings an equally persuasive... —
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Sir Neville Marriner Conducts Haydn
Hans Peter Blochwitz (tenor), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (bass), Barbara Bonney (soprano), Edith Wiens (soprano), Olaf Bär (baritone), John Wilbraham (trumpet), Lynn Harrell (cello), Hansjürgen Scholze (organ), Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Carol Vaness (soprano), Doris Soffel (contralto), Keith Lewis...
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Vaughan Williams Essentials
Tasmin Little (violin), Thomas Hampson (baritone vocals), Amanda Roocroft (soprano vocals), BBC Symphony Chorus (chorus), Patricia Rozario (soprano vocals)
New College Choir, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Choir of the New College Oxford, Andrew Davis, Edward Higginbottom
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The Distinguished Conductor
Andrei Gavrilov (piano), John Constable (harpsichord, fortepiano), Barry Tuckwell (french horn), Cécile Ousset (piano), Stephen Shingles (viola), Lucia Popp (soprano), Catherine Latham (recorder), Iona Brown (violin), Philip Pickett (recorder), Hansjürgen Scholze (organ), Margaret Marshall (soprano),...
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