Stephen Richardson
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Special offer. Britten: Peter Grimes
RecommendedAlan Oke (Peter Grimes), Giselle Allen (Ellen Orford), David Kempster (Captain Balstrode), Gaynor Keeble (Auntie), Alexandra Hutton (First Niece), Charmian Bedford (Second Niece), Robert Murray (Bob Boles), Henry Waddington (Swallow), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs Sedley), Christopher Gillett (Rev. Horace...
[Bedford] has the sea-swell of the work deep in his bones...[Oke's] is a strong, ballasted performance, less purely plangent than many, but deeply moving in its simple strength and keen imagination...There's... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2013, Disc of the month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Opera Award Winner
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Special offer. Davies, Peter Maxwell: Taverner
Martyn Hill (Taverner), David Wilson-Johnson (Jester), Stephen Richardson (Henry VIII), Fiona Kimm (Virgin Mary), Michael Chance (Priest/God), Quentin Hayes (White Abbot) & Peter Sidhom (Richard Taverner)
Fretwork, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta Voices, His Majestys Sagbutts...
The opera is full… bitterly ironic juxtapositions, such as the 'holy' chanting from monks heard against the cynical Realpolitik of the negotiations between King and the Cardinal. Making the... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Opera
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Opera, April 2010, Recording of the Month
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Adès: The Tempest
RecommendedSimon Keenlyside (Prospero), Kate Royal (Miranda), Toby Spence (Ferdinand), Ian Bostridge (Caliban), Cyndia Sieden (Ariel), Philip Langridge (Alonso), Donald Kaasch (Antonio), Jonathan Summers (Sebastian), David Condier (Trinculo), Stephen Richardson (Stefano), Graeme Danby (Gonzalo)
The Chorus...
…everyone reaches out to the purple passages when Adès touches something rich and strange. Those include the evolution of the young lovers' music from homages to midsummer Britten and Tippett... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2009, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Contemporary
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Grammy Awards, 56th Awards (2013), Best Opera Recording
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Special offer. Barry: Alice's Adventures Under Ground
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... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Knussen: Higglety Pigglety Pop! & Where the Wild Things Are
Cynthia Buchan, Lisa Saffer, Rosemary Hardy. Christopher Gillet, David Wilson-Johnson, Stephen Richardson, Mary King
London Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2001, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Britten: Peter Grimes
on Aldeburgh beach. Filmed at the Aldeburgh Festival, June 2013
Alan Oke (Grimes), Giselle Allen (Ellen), David Kempster (Balstrode), Gaynor Keeble (Auntie), Robert Murray (Bob Boles), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs Sedley), Charles Rice (Ned Keene); Britten–Pears Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Tim Albery (dir.)
In almost all respects the technical side of the operation is a near triumph. Having the singers perform live...to the accompaniment of a pre-recorded orchestra was a gamble but it has paid... —
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Special offer. Gerald Barry: The Intelligence Park
Jeremy Budd (tenor), Richard Jackson, Paul Harrhy, Stephen Richardson (bass), Angela Tunstall, Buddug Verona James, Nicholas Clapton, Almeida Ensemble, Robert Houlihan
The Intelligence Park has worn well, with a score that has all the energy, quirky humour and vertiginous changes of mood and direction that we have come to associate with Barry's music. Whether... —
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Passio - Music for Holy Week and Easter, Vol. 2
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Stephen Richardson (bass), Catherine Bott (soprano), Michael Chance (alto), Paul Agnew (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (bass)
King's College Choir, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
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Goehr: Sing, Ariel, The Mouse Metamorphosed into a Maid & The Death of Moses
Lucy Shelton, David White, John Wallace (trumpet), Marcia Crayford, Chi-chi Nwanokwu, Ian Brown, Sarah Leonard (soprano), Eileen Hulse, Michael Chance, Stephen Richardson (bass), Cambridge University Musical Society Ensemble, Cambridge University Musical Society Chorus, Oliver Knussen, Stephen Cleobury
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Works by Patrick Hadley & Philip Sainton
Neill Archer (tenor), David Wilson-Johnson (barirone), Stephen Richardson (bass)
Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus, Matthias Bamert
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