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  • Handel: Amadigi di Gaula

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    Tim Mead (Amadigi), Mary Bevan (Melissa), Anna Dennis (Oriana), Hilary Summers (Dardano), Patrick Terry (Orgando), Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn

    Handel took a less-is-more approach to his Amadigi di Gaula. Christian Curnyn’s answering restraint reveals the stark solos, shimmering textures, ringing silences and stunning one-to-a-part... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
    • Release Date: 16th Sep 2022
    • Catalogue No: CHSA04062
    • Label: Chandos
    • Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

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  • Handel: Serse

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    Anna Stéphany (Serse), Rosemary Joshua (Romilda), David Daniels (Arsamene), Hilary Summers (Amastre), Joélle Harvey (Atalanta), Andreas Wolf (Elviro), Brindley Sherratt (Ariodate)

    Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn

    [Stéphany's] is a stunning central performance, comfortably matched by incisive playing from the Early Opera Company orchestra. Sopranos Rosemary Joshua (as Romilda) and Joelle Harvey (Atalanta)... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2013, 4 out of 5 starsMore…
    • Release Date: 2nd Sep 2013
    • Catalogue No: CHAN0797(3)
    • Label: Chandos
    • Series: Chaconne
    • Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

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  • Britten: The Rape of Lucretia

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    Angelika Kirchschlager (Lucretia), Peter Coleman-Wright (Tarquinius), Ian Bostridge (Male Chorus), Susan Gritton (Female Chorus), Christopher Purves (Collatinus), Benjamin Russell (Junius), Claire Booth (Lucia), Hilary Summers (Bianca)

    Aldeburgh Festival Ensemble, Oliver Knussen

    Without hurrying, Knussen conducts a tight, vivid account, surpassing Britten's own...Ian Bostridge and Susan Gritton as Male and Female Chorus project their rhetorical commentaries with exemplary... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
    • Release Date: 14th Jan 2013
    • Catalogue No: 6026722
    • Label: Erato
    • Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

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  • Barry: Alice's Adventures Under Ground

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    Irish National Opera, Claudia Boyle (soprano), Gavan Ring (tenor), Peter Tantsits (tenor), Stephen Richardson (bass-baritone), Alan Ewing (bass-baritone), Clare Presland (mezzo-soprano), Hilary Summers (contralto), Irish Chamber Orchestra, André de Ridder

    The variety of styles presented in this short, single-act opera is mind-boggling... In another setting, under another composer, all this might seem bizarre, but such musical references are so... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…
    • Release Date: 5th Nov 2021
    • Catalogue No: SIGCD695
    • Label: Signum
    • Length: 53 minutes

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  • Handel: Israel in Ägypten

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    Lydia Teuscher, Julia Doyle (sopranos), Hilary Summers (alto), Benjamin Hulett (tenor), Roderick Williams (bass)

    Choir of The King’s Consort & The King’s Consort, Robert King

    the performance makes a strong case for the piece, even if Mendelssohn's version is unlikely to make a full-scale comeback. The choir is lively, making every word clear, though some of King's... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2016, 4 out of 5 starsMore…
    • Release Date: 18th Mar 2016
    • Catalogue No: VIVAT111
    • Label: Vivat
    • Length: 81 minutes

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  • Sullivan, A: HMS Pinafore

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    Elizabeth Watts (Josephine), Toby Spence (Ralph Rackstraw), John Mark Ainsley (Sir Joseph Porter KCB), Andrew Foster-Williams (Captain Corcoran), Hilary Summers (Buttercup), Neal Davies (Dick Deadeye), Gavan Ring (Bill Bobstay), Barnaby Rea (Bob Becket), Kitty Whately (Hebe), Tim Brooke-Taylor (narrator)

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    Richard Egarr brings springy energy to the score...Elizabeth Watts's Josephine has a mischievous touch. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2016More…
    • Release Date: 20th May 2016
    • Catalogue No: CKD522
    • Label: Linn
    • Length: 84 minutes

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  • Handel: Flavio

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    Tim Mead (Flavio), Rosemary Joshua (Emilia), Iestyn Davies (Guido), Renata Pokupić (Vitige), Hilary Summers (Teodata), Thomas Walker (Ugone), Andrew Foster-Williams (Lotario)

    Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn

    Flavio has some fine music, but is rarely performed...The aria 'Amante stravagante'...nicely displays [Joshua's] bright, silvery tone...The vocal star is Renata Pokupic as Vitige. Her 'Non credo'... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, 3 out of 5 starsMore…
    • Release Date: 27th Sep 2010
    • Catalogue No: CHAN0773(2)
    • Label: Chandos
    • Series: Chaconne
    • Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

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  • Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Violin Concerto, Photoptosis, Die Soldaten Vocal Symphony

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    Leila Josefowicz (violin), Anu Komsi (soprano), Jeni Packalen (soprano), Hilary Summers (contralto), Peter Tantsits (tenor), Ville Rusanen (baritone), Juha Uusitalo (bass)

    Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu

    In Zimmermann’s Violin Concerto…beauty is to the fore ina performance from Lelia Josefowicz that is more elasticated and lyrical (than, say, Thomas Zehetmair) while the Finnish Radio Symphony... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2019More…
    • Release Date: 8th Feb 2019
    • Catalogue No: ODE1325-2
    • Label: Ondine
    • Length: 73 minutes

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  • Michael Haydn: Requiem

    Michael Haydn: Requiem

    Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Hilary Summers (alto), James Gilchrist (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass)

    Choir of The King’s Consort, The King’s Consort, Robert King

    A quality quartet of soloists, led by the vernal soprano of Carolyn Sampson. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2006More…
    • Release Date: 28th Feb 2005
    • Catalogue No: CDA67510
    • Label: Hyperion
    • Length: 83 minutes

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  • Fin de Partie

    Fin de Partie

    Frode Olsen (vocalist), Zsolt Haja (vocalist), Hilary Summers (vocalist), Leonardo Cortellazzi (vocalist), Danubia Orchestra, Markus Stenz

    • Release Date: 10th Feb 2026
    • Catalogue No: BMCCD363
    • Label: BMC
    • Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

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