Rod Gilfry
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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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Special offer. Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
RecommendedCharlotte Margiono (soprano), Rodney Gilfry (baritone)
Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
Gardiner's performance is notable for its intensity and fervour, and for the superb singing of his choir: splendidly firm and secure attacks and phrasing, always with fine tonal quality, meticulous... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Brett Dean: Hamlet
RecommendedAllan Clayton (Hamlet), Sarah Connolly (Gertrude), Barbara Hannigan (Ophelia), Rod Gilfry (Claudius), Kim Begley (Polonius), John Tomlinson (Ghost/Grave-Digger/Player-King), Jacques Imbrailo (Horatio)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, The 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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Waxman, F: Joshua
RecommendedMaximilian Schell (narrator), Rod Gilfry, baritone (Moses, Joshua), Ann Hallenberg, mezzo-soprano (Rahab) & Patrick Poole (tenor)
Prague Philharmonic Choir & Prague Philharmonia, James Sedares
Waxman's command of his forces is impressive, his general musical language redolent of Mahler and Bloch. Rod Gilfry is a virile tenor soloist as both Moses and Joshua, but Ann Hallenberg is... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
RecommendedRodney Gilfry (Don Giovanni), Luba Orgonasova (Anna), Charlotte Margiono (Elvira), Eirian James (Zerlina), Christoph Prégardien (Don Ottavio), Ildebrando d'Arcangelo (Leporello), Julian Clarkson (Masetto), Andrea Silvestrelli (Commendatore)
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Gardiner's set has a great deal to commend it.
The recitative is sung with exemplary care over pacing so that it sounds as it should, like heightened and vivid conversation, often to electrifying... —Awards:
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Building a Library, July 2018, Also recommended
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Haydn: The Creation
Recommended(sung in German)
Sylvia McNair, Donna Brown, Michael Schade, Gerald Finley & Rodney Gilfry
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
With Gardiner's first down-beat it's obvious that Chaos's days are numbered.
Not that 'days' (strictly speaking) are in question till the mighty words have been spoken, and then, in this performance,... —Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 1997, Winner - Choral
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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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Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Rodney Gilfry (Pelléas), Isabel Rey (Mélisande), Michael Volle (Golaud), László Polgár (Arkel) & Cornelia Kallisch (Geneviève)
Zurich Opera House, Franz Welser-Möst (conductor) & Sven-Eric Bechtolf (stage director)
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Iphigénie en Tauride, Wq. 46
Christine Goerke (soprano), Rod Gilfry (baritone), Vinson Cole (tenor), Sharon Baker (soprano), Stephen Salters (baritone), Jayne West (soprano), Mark Andrew Cleveland (bass (vocal)), Mark Risinger (bass (vocal)), Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman
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West Side Story - The Great Bernstein
Paul Searle-Barnes (piano), Paul Turner (drums), Billie Holiday (mezzo-soprano), Sharon Kam (clarinet), Lambert Wilson (vocals), Diana Damrau (soprano), Alison Balsom (trumpet), Tom Poster (piano), Beatrice Rana (piano), Rod Gilfry (baritone), Audra McDonald (soprano), Kim Criswell (mezzo-soprano),...
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