Susan Bullock
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Special offer. Wagner: Die Walküre
Stig Andersen (Siegmund), Yvonne Howard (Sieglinde), Clive Bayley (Hunding), Egils Silins (Wotan), Susan Bullock (Brünnhilde), Susan Bickley (Fricka)
Hallé, Sir Mark Elder
Elder is the driving force, with an approach that's powerfully measured and beautifully detailed, nowhere more so than in Act 1. His cast is also excellent...[Howard's] nervy, vulnerable Sieglinde... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Opera Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2012, Opera Choice
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Opera, September 2012, Recording of the Month
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Júlia Várady, Jane Eaglen, Susan Bullock (sopranos), Trudeliese Schmidt, Jadwiga Rappé (mezzo soprano), Kenneth Riegel (tenor), Eike Wilm Schulte (baritone) & Hans Sotin (bass)
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, London Symphony Chorus & Eton College Boys’ Choir, Klaus Tennstedt
Even in the hour-long second movement, Tennstedt sustains such a high level of concentration and intensity that the attention is riveted throughout, culminating in a ecstatic peroration that... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2011, Editor's Choice
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Taliesin's Songbook
RecommendedAndrew Matthews-Owen (piano), Rebecca Evans (soprano), Gareth Brynmor John (baritone), Susan Bullock (soprano), Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano), Catrin Finch (harp), Elgan Llŷr Thomas (tenor), Natalya Romaniw (soprano)
Wales has long been famed for its vibrant singing culture. This excellent disc of contemporary Welsh song, featuring a glittering roster of Welsh singers, affirms that this tradition is very... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Special offer. Strauss, R: Salome
RecommendedSusan Bullock (Salome), John Wegner (Jokanaan), Sally Burgess (Herodias), John Graham Hall (Herod Antipas), Andrew Rees (Narraboth), Rebecca de Pont Davies (Page)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
…Bullock underlines the increasing insistence of Salome's demand for John's head… and keeps the meaning clear even when riding the orchestra in her love-death. If it were only for the orchestra... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th October 2008
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Florent Schmitt: Psaume 47, La Tragédie de Salomé & Le Palais hanté
Susan Bullock (soprano)
São Paulo Symphony Orchestra and Choir, Yan Pascal Tortelier
Tortelier is...supple and caressing, emphasising the score's Gallic progeniture. Going from the lurid sex and violence of Salome to Schmitt's setting of Psalm 47 should be a major wrench stylistically,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, Choral & Song Choice
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Few voices of this kind scale down effectively in song recital, but Bullock has a spectrum of vocal colours which she puts at intelligent service of the text - and in Malcolm Martineau she has... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2007, Choral & Song Choice
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Special offer. Arwel Hughes: Oratorio Dewi Sant
Susan Bullock (soprano), Rhodri Prys Jones (tenor), Paul Casey Jones (bass-baritone), BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales, Owain Arwel Hughes
Some bars indeed suggest watered-down Handel. Yet none of that stops the oratorio being craf tsmanlike and immediately expressive, and most of Owain Arwel Hughes’s forces attack it with vim...It... —
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Chausson: Le roi arthus, Op. 23
Simon O'Neill (tenor), Daniel Okulitch (baritone), Susan Bullock (soprano), Andrew Schroeder (baritone), Garret Sorenson (tenor), Andrew Kennedy (tenor), François Le Roux (baritone), Donald McIntyre (bass-baritone), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Apollo Voices, Leon Botstein
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphony No. 8
David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), John Relyea (bass), Erika Sunnegardh, MDR-Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Knaben des Staats- und Domchors Berlin, Susan Bullock (soprano), Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto), Anna Prohaska (soprano), Lilli Paasikivi, Johan Botha (tenor), Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin,...
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Special offer. Wagner: Siegfried
Lance Ryan (Siegfried), Peter Marsh (Mime), Terje Stensvold (Der Wanderer), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Alberich), Magnús Baldvinsson (Fafner), Meredith Arwady (Erda), Susan Bullock (Brunnhilde), Kateryna Kasper (Woodbird)
Frankfurter Opern und Museumsorchester, Sebastian Weigle
Weigle conducts superbly, bringing many original and fine ideas to this amazingly fresh score and building up great momentum over entire acts...[Bullock's] awakening is shrill and insecure,... —
