Opera, Musgrave (composer)
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The NMC Songbook
RecommendedSopranos - Claire Booth, Ailish Tynan, Elizabeth Atherton
Mezzo-sopranos - Susan Bickley, Loré Lixenberg, Jean Rigby
Countertenors - James Bowman, Michael Chance, Andrew Watts
Tenors - Andrew Kennedy, Daniel Norman, Benjamin Hulett
Baritones - Stefan Loges, Roderick Williams,...
…anyone listening to these discs will find many things to savour… It is, inevitably an eclectic mix, but, as in any well-planned song recital, the progressions and juxtapositions are continually... —
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th April 2009
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Contemporary
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No detail escapes her. Confiding, conversational, anguished, enraptured, she inhabits the piece whose instrumental filigree is perfectly judged by the conductorless Ensemble 360. From the delicate,... —
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Most characterful of these 11 variations are Anthony Payne's 'Loose Canon'...and Richard Rodney Bennett's touching and poignantly harmonised 'Little Elegy'. —
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Special offer. Musgrave: Mary, Queen of Scots
Carlos Serrano, Jake Gardner, Ashley Putnam, Francesco Sorianello, Robert Randolph, Pietro Pozzo, Barry Busse, Gloria Capone, Nancy Boling, Ann Scholten, Pamela Scott, Jon Garrison, Kenneth Bell, Ashely Putnam
Peter Mark
Mary is a role fit for any prima donna. Ashley Putnam is magnetically convincing, maintaining strength throughout, yet never missing the Queen’s vulnerability, and soaring through the devastating... —
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Special offer. Thea Musgrave: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge & Green
Jake Gardner (baritone) & Gayle Hunnicutt (narrator)
London Sinfonietta, Red Byrd, Fretwork & Scottish Ensemble, Thea Musgrave
As the victim, Jake Gardner is heroic and ardent, if not ideally lyrical; the London Sinfonietta, under Musgrave herself, plays with razor-sharp precision. The original 1981 studio broadcast... —
