Allan Clayton
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Special offer. Verdi: Otello
RecommendedSimon O’Neill (Otello), Gerald Finley (Iago), Anne Schwanewilms (Desdemona), Allan Clayton (Cassio), Ben Johnson (Roderigo), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Lodovico), Matthew Rose (Montano), Lukas Jakobski (Herald) & Eufemia Tufano (Emilia)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis
everything contributes to accentuating extremes: Colin Davis gets the LSO, in shattering form, to play chords like cannon shots...The two male leads are superb: Simon O'Neill is the most complete... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st November 2010
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Opera
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2010, Editor's Choice
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Mendelssohn: Elijah
RecommendedMasabane Cecilia Rangwanasha (soprano), Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Allan Clayton (tenor), Gerald Finley (bass-baritone), London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano
Pappano makes the most of his extensive experience in the opera house to bring a compelling sense of purpose and dramatic thrust to this new recording, which positively fizzes and crackles with... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Choral
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Special offer. Handel: Acis and Galatea
Lucy Crowe (Galatea), Allan Clayton (Acis), Benjamin Hulett (Damon), Jeremy Budd (Coridon) & Neal Davies (Polyphemus)
Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn
Curnyn has hit on a secret that eluded previous interpreters of this work: it was conceived specifically to showcase the beauty of the English language…Channelling Handel’s enthusiasm, Curnyn... —
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Record Review, 16th June 2018, Recording of the Week
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Winner - Opera
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Special offer. Mozart: Idomeneo
RecommendedAndrew Staples (Idomeneo), Magdalena Kožená (Idamante), Sabine Devieilhe (Ilia), Elsa Dreisig (Elettra), Linard Vrielink (Arbace), Allan Clayton (High Priest of Neptune), Tareq Nazmi (Voice of the Oracle)
Symphonieorchester und Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Simon Rattle
The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Simon Rattle's energetic and sensitive direction mirror the Mannheimers' dynamism and virtuosity...[Staples] brings fine diction and expressivity... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2025, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Brett Dean: Hamlet
RecommendedAllan Clayton (Hamlet), Sarah Connolly (Gertrude), Barbara Hannigan (Ophelia), Rod Gilfry (Claudius), Kim Begley (Polonius), John Tomlinson (Ghost/Grave-Digger), Jacques Imbrailo (Horatio), David Butt Philip (Laertes)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Glyndebourne Chorus, Vladimir Jurowski
Dean’s score succeeds through rampant imagination and simple wisdom…[Clayton’s] portrayal of Hamlet’s decline would be noteworthy even without singing that is full of expressive meaning and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2018, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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International Opera Awards, 2019, Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Winner - Contemporary
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Hans Zender: Schubert's Winterreise
RecommendedA Composed Interpretation
Allan Clayton (tenor), Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Nicholas Collin and the Aurora Orchestra rise to Zender's challenges handsomely...Allan Clayton is one of a handful of tenors with the vocal dexterity to take on Zender's reworking of Schubert's... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th January 2026
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Special offer. George Benjamin: Written on Skin
Recommendedand Duet for piano and orchestra
Christopher Purves (The Protector), Barbara Hannigan (Agnès), Bejun Mehta (First Angel/Boy), Victoria Simmonds (Second Angel/Marie), Allan Clayton (Third Angel/John), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, George Benjamin
[Purves] expresses a brooding pride and menace that makes your skin crawl. [Hannigan] makes an electrifying transformation from doe-like submissiveness to sexual predator, and the powerfully... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Contemporary
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Premiere Award
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Special offer. Britten: Spring Symphony, Sinfonia da Requiem, the Young Person's Guide To the Orchestra
Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Alice Coote (mezzo), Allan Clayton (tenor), London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
There are infinite possibilities in choice of Britten orchestral/ choral works on a single album, and none could be better played and sung, or a better choice to introduce someone to his genius...Rattle’s... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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'Where'er You Walk'
Arias For Handel's Favourite Tenor
Allan Clayton (tenor) & Mary Bevan (soprano)
The Mozartists, The Choir of Classical Opera, Ian Page
there’s a guileless beauty of tone in Clayton’s Handel … he is a stylish but not slavish Handelian … led by Matthew Truscott, the string playing is reliably silky, well articulated and quick-witted,... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Recital
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Liszt: The Complete Songs Volume 5 - Allan Clayton
RecommendedAllan Clayton (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)
The quieter moments of these songs show Allan Clayton’s voice at its best: smooth, tender and altogether alluring…By and large his diction is good…overall the performances are alive to the drama... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st December 2018
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