Leigh Melrose
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
RecommendedBen Heppner (Enée), Michelle DeYoung (Didon), Petra Lang (Cassandre), Sara Mingardo (Anna), Peter Mattei (Chorèbe), Stephen Milling (Narbal), Kenneth Tarver (Iopas), Toby Spence (Hylas), Alan Ewing (Priam), Guang Yang (Hécube), Isabelle Cals (Ascagne), Tigran Martirossian (Panthée), Bülent Bezdüz...
So what's so special about the performance? Try Canadian tenor Ben Heppner, outdoing his fellow countryman Jon Vickers on Sir Colin's first recording of Les Troyens. The other principals are... —
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Building a Library, November 2012, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2001, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Music of Elliott Carter - Vol 8
Martin Owen (horn), Leigh Melrose (baritone), Rolf Schulte (violin) & Fred Sherry (cello), William Purvis (horn), Peter Kolkay (bassoon), Jon Nelson (trumpet), Donald Palma (contrabass), Hsin-Yun Huang (viola), Simon Boyar (marimba), Charles Neidich (clarinet), Lucy Shelton (soprano) & Charles...
Textures are pared down to their essence, a quality exemplified in the abundance of perfectly turned little miniatures for one or two instruments...All these things, whether tiny and serene... —
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Contemporary
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Special offer. Sir Colin Davis Anthology
Limited Edition of 5000
Ben Heppner (Enée), Michelle DeYoung (Didon), Petra Lang (Cassandre), Sara Mingardo (Anna), Peter Mattei (Chorèbe), Stephen Milling (Narbal), Kenneth Tarver (Iopas), Toby Spence (Hylas), Alan Ewing (Priam)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
despite the film’s scrappy construction music and man emerge loud and clear. A “reluctant king” is Sir David Attenborough’s description. His baton, Mitsuko Uchida, the pianist, crisply says,... —
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
Petra Lang (mezzo-soprano), Peter Mattei (baritone), Aeneas, Alan Ewing, Tigran Martirossian, Ben Heppner (tenor), Bülent Bezdüz, Isabelle Cals, Guang Yang, Orlin Anastassov, Mark Stone (baritone), Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Kenneth Tarver (tenor), Stephen Milling...
In this live account Colin Davis, as ever, proves a potent interpreter of Berlioz’s masterpiece. —
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Special offer. Philip Venables: Below The Belt
Melinda Maxwell (oboe) & David Hoyle (performance artist)
Phoenix Piano Trio, Ligeti String Quartet & London Sinfonietta, Richard Baker
These six superbly assured works…reveal the same, lacerating frankness in diverse chamber contexts as Venables’s groundbreaking opera, 4:48 Psychosis…Most graphically urgent is Illusions…Supported... —
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Special offer. Albion’s Vision
An introduction to the Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams on Albion Records
Iain Burnside (piano), Matthew Trusler (violin), Mary Bevan (soprano), Leigh Melrose (baritone), Roderick Williams (baritone), Alan Rowlands (piano), Adrian Sims (piano), David Briggs (organ), Derek Welton (baritone), Robert B. Anderson (bass-baritone), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Choir...
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MacMillan: The Sacrifice
Anthony Negus, Welsh National Opera Orchestra, Lisa Milne (soprano), Leigh Melrose (baritone), Christopher Purves (bass-baritone), Sarah Tynan (soprano), Peter Hoare (tenor), Rosie Hay, Samantha Hay, Amanda Baldwin, Welsh National Opera Chorus
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Paul Daniel conducts Vaughan Williams & Patrick Hadley
Jane Irwin (mezzo-soprano), Mary Bevan (soprano) & Leigh Melrose (baritone)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & The Joyful Company of Singers, Paul Daniel
Performances are authoritative, atmospheric, and not at all self-conscious when dealing with rollicking monks or comedy Dutchmen. —
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Kalitzke: Die Besessenen
Live recording of the world premiere
Hendrickje van Kerckhove (Mary), Noa Frenkel, Leigh Melrose (Cholawicki), Benjamin Hulett (Leszczuk), Jochen Kowalski (Prince Holszanski), Manfred Hemm (Skolinski), Rupert Bergmann (Maliniak)
Klangforum Wien, Johannes Kalitzke
The music veers between bold, brash vitality and broader, quieter lyricism...The performance on the first night at the Theater an der Wien goes with a suitably hectic swing and the recording... —
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Berlioz: Highlights from The Trojans
Toby Spence, Petra Lang, Leigh Melrose, Ben Heppner, Isabelle Cals, Roderick Earle, Kenneth Tarver, Sara Mingardo, Andrew Greenan, Stephen Milling, Michelle DeYoung, London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Sir Colin Davis
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