Opera, Turnage (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... —
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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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Great Operatic Arias 22 - Gerald Finley
Gerald Finley (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Edward Gardner
All essentials for a recital are present here: the featured artist in good voice, imagination capable of bringing 13 different characters to life..., apt recording decisions and on-the-pace... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2010, Editor's Choice
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Opera, May 2010, Recording of the Month
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British Composers: A Celebration
RecommendedRichard Rodney Bennett (piano), Ian Hare (piano), Robert Tear (vocals), Sir Andrew Davis (piano), Bruce Russell (vocals), Richard Lewis (vocals), Monica Sinclair (vocals), Lewis Thomas (vocals), Geoffrey Walls (baritone), John Hauxwell (bass-baritone), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Wilfred Brown...
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also Recommended
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Turnage: Greek
Quentin Hayes (Eddy), Fiona Kimm (Wife, Doreen, Waitress 1, Sphinx 2), Helen Charnock (Mum, Waitress 2, Sphinx 1), Richard Suart (Dad, Café Manager, Chief of Police)
The Greek Ensemble, Richard Bernas
[Hayes] is utterly credible as a disaffected lower middle-class youth, and also as a modern reincarnation of Oedipus...The instrumental ensemble, which contains less than two dozen players,... —
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Mark-Anthony Turnage: Orchestral Works Vol. 2
Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Martin Robertson (soprano saxophone), Gerald Finley (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Marin Alsop
In Hidden Love Song the soprano saxophone's lyricism has that slightly acrid urban feel that typifies so much of Turnage's best work… Full marks to Sarah Conolly and Gerald Finley for the conviction... —
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Special offer. Turnage: Greek
Quentin Hayes (Eddy), Fiona Kimm (Wife, Doreen, Waitress 1, Sphinx 2), Helen Charnock (Mum, Waitress 2, Sphinx 1), Richard Suart (Dad, Café Manager, Chief of Police)
The Almeida Ensemble, conducted by Steven Berkoff. Directed by Peter Maniura and Jonathan Moore. Play written by Steven Berkoff.
Here's the classic TV production of Turnage's seminal opera which presents the Oedipus myth within the degradation of Thatcher's Britain. Witty, disturbing and lyrical, it has lost none of... —
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Special offer. Turnage: Anna Nicole
Eva-Maria Westbroek (Anna Nicole), Alan Oke (Old Man Marshall), Gerald Finley (The Lawyer Stern), Susan Bickley (Virgie), Jeremy White (Daddy Hogan), Loré Lixenberg (Cousin Shelley), Peter Hoare (Larry King)
Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano, Richard Jones
a slick satire on the superficiality of American popular culture...Eva-Maria Westbroek gives a gutsy central performance —
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British Music Collection - Mark-Anthony Turnage
Quentin Hayes (Eddy), Fiona Kimm (Wife, Doreen, Waitress 1, Sphinx 2), Helen Charnock (Mum, Waitress 2, Sphinx 1), Richard Suart (Dad, Café Manager, Chief of Police)
The Greek Ensemble, Richard Bernas
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Special offer. Turnage: Anna Nicole
Eva-Maria Westbroek (Anna Nicole), Alan Oke (Old Man Marshall), Gerald Finley (The Lawyer Stern), Susan Bickley (Virgie), Jeremy White (Daddy Hogan), Loré Lixenberg (Cousin Shelley), Peter Hoare (Larry King)
Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano, Richard Jones
a slick satire on the superficiality of American popular culture...Eva-Maria Westbroek gives a gutsy central performance —
