Jean Rigby
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Vivaldi: Juditha Triumphans, RV644
Ann Murray, Maria Cristina Kiehr, Susan Bickley, Sarah Connolly, Jean Rigby
King's Consort, Robert King
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Special offer. Mendelssohn: Paulus, Op. 36
(sung in German)
Susan Gritton (soprano), Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano), Barry Banks (tenor) & Peter Coleman-Wright (bass)
BBC National Chorus of Wales & BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox
Composed in the wake of (and influenced by) Mendelssohn's epoch-making performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion, Paulus is an impressive work whose punchy choruses bring out the best in Hickox. —
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Beethoven: Cantatas
RecommendedJudith Howarth, Janice Watson, Jean Rigby, John Mark Ainsley, José Van Dam
Corydon Singers & Orchestra, Matthew Best
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Britten: The Rape of Lucretia
Jean Rigby (Lucretia), Nigel Robson (Male Chorus), Catherine Pierard (Female Chorus), Donald Maxwell (Tarquinius), Alastair Miles (Collatinus), Alan Opie (Junius), Patricia Rozario (Lucia), Ameral Gunson (Bianca)
City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
Hickox allows his singers plenty of space with no loss of tension; they respond impressively, with Catherine Pierard exceptional as the Female Chorus. —
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Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ, Op. 25
RecommendedJean Rigby (mezzo soprano), Alastair Miles (bass), Gerald Finley (baritone), John Aler (tenor), Gwynne Howell (bass), Peter Evans (tenor) & Robert Poulton (baritone)
Corydon Singers & Orchestra & St Paul's Cathedral Choristers, Matthew Best
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Building a Library, December 2001, First Choice
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: Five Tudor Portraits & 5 Variants of 'Dives & Lazarus'
Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
First heard at the 1936 Norwich Festival, Vaughan Williams's Five Tudor Portraits find the composer at his most dazzlingly inventive, the resourceful and witty writing fitting Skelton's words... —
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Beethoven - Mass in C major
Janice Watson (soprano), Jean Rigby (mezzo soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & Gwynne Howell (bass)
Corydon Singers & Corydon Orchestra, Matthew Best
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Special offer. Dyson: Quo Vadis
Cheryl Barker (soprano), Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano), Philip Langridge (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone)
BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales, Chamber Choir of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Richard Hickox
Like so many British composers Dyson, even before he died in 1962, suffered neglect through writing in a conservative idiom that critics were all too ready to label 'out of date'. Originally... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2003, Editor's Choice
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Berkeley, L: A Dinner Engagement, Op. 45
Roderick Williams, Yvonne Kenny, Claire Rutter, Jean Rigby, Anne Collins, Robin Leggate, Blake Fischer
City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
A Dinner Engagement (Aldeburgh, 1954) was written for Britten's English Opera Group, suited their resources and philosophy admirably and was much admired by Britten himself. This jewel of a... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2004, Editor's Choice
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Eötvös: Love and Other Demons
Allison Bell (Sierva Maria), Nathan Gunn (Father Cayetano Delaura), Mats Almgren (Don Toribio, the bishop), Felicity Palmer (Josefa Miranda) & Jean Rigby (Martina Laborde)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
Eötvös's fifth full-length opera is surprisingly lacking in heat. But the music is brilliantly luminous...a glittering score that is clear and precise, wonderfully moulded by Vladimir Jurowski... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Opera, January 2014, Recording of the Month
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