Opera, Weir (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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Weir: The Vanishing Bridegroom
RecommendedAilish Tynan (soprano), Anna Stéphany (mezzo), Andrew Tortise (tenor), Owen Gilhooly (baritone) & Jonathan Lemalu (bass baritone)
BBC Singers & BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
a composer of integrity, [Weir] communicates intelligently with different audiences and ages. This timely release of The Vanishing Bridegroom (1990), her most successful opera, underscores her... —
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2014, Opera Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Special offer. Weir: Blond Eckbert
Nerys Jones, Nicholas Folwell, Christopher Ventris (tenor), Anne-Marie Owens (mezzo-soprano), English National Opera, English National Opera Chorus, Sian Edwards
Judith Weir's treatment of Ludwig Tieck's story Blond Eckbert creates a compelling world… with its own ingenious methods of narration, and a strong sense of movement towards an inescapable and... —
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On Buying a Horse
The songs of Judith Weir
Ailish Tynan (soprano), Susan Bickley (mezzo), Andrew Kennedy (tenor) & Iain Burnside (piano)
Andrew Kennedy's light tenor sails pleasingly through the dark deeds of Scotch Minstrelsy —
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Record Review, December 2006, Critics Disc of the Year
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Judith Weir: the Vanishing Bridegroom
Stephen Jeffes (narrator), Andrew Murgatroyd (vocals), Christopher Bowen (tenor), Edward Goater (tenor), Edward Price (baritone), Jonathan Lemalu (baritone), Ailish Tynan (soprano), Owen Gilhooly (baritone), Andrew Tortise (tenor), Nicolas Simeha (baritone), Jonathan Saunders (bass), Paul Haas-Curievici...
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Organs of Edinburgh
Usher Hall – John Kitchen, St Cuthbert’s Parish Church – Thomas Laing-Reilly, Palmerston Place Church – Andrew Caskie, St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral- Duncan Ferguson, Freemasons’ Hall – Timothy Byram-Wigfield, St Andrew’s & St George’s West Parish Church – Michael Harris, Broughton St Mary’s...
This is a magnificent package, fully befitting its subject...The entire collection is a veritable treasure-trove, a feast for lovers of organ music...Just 2,000 copies of this will ever be published... —
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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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Judith Weir: The Consolations of Scholarship
Janice Felty (mezzo-soprano), Xak Bjerken (piano), Judith Kellock (soprano)
Ensemble X, Steven Stucky, Mark Scatterday
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Special offer. A Short Story of Falling
Limited Edition
Harriet Burns (soprano), Ian Tindale (piano)
