Eloquence - up to 35% off
Until 9th September, we are offering up to 35% off Eloquence titles on CD and Downloads. Please note that Eloqunce boxsets are not available as downloads.
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Watts’s rich, old-fashioned voice and creamy legato are beautifully matched by Geoffrey Parsons’s restrained, luminous piano sound. Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody is surpassingly beautiful, if slow. —
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Special offer. Songs for Courtiers and Cavaliers
Helen Watts (contralto), Thurston Dart (harpsichord)
Philomusica of London
An intriguing record of the roots of historically-informed performance, Helen Watts and Desmond Dupré give passionate but (by today’s standards) heavy-handed accounts. —
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Diapason d’Or, November 2019, Collectionneur
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Special offer. Handel: Semele
Jennifer Vyvyan (Semele), Anna Pollack (Juno), William Herbert (Jupiter), John Whitworth (Athamas), George Pragnell (Cadmus), Helen Watts (Ino), George James (Somnus)
New Symphony Orchestra, The St. Anthony Singers, Anthony Lewis
Not Handel as we like him now, but a groundbreaking recording by Anthony Lewis. Well-mannered vocally in an English way rather than unsettlingly erotic, but Jennifer Vyvyan is incomparable as... —
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Special offer. Handel: Sosarme
Alfred Deller (Sosarme), William Herbert (Haliate), Nancy Evans (Erenice), Margaret Ritchie (Elmira), John Kentish (Argone), Helen Watts (Melo), Ian Wallace (Altomaro)
The Saint Cecilia Orchestra, Anthony Lewis
Although tempos for some of Handel’s slower arias are more measured than is desirable, quicker numbers have a spirited, rhythmic lift that shows Lewis way in advance of most of his contemporaries...... —
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Special offer. Bach: Orchestral Suites Nos. 2 & 3 and various cantatas
Elly Ameling (soprano), Agnes Giebel (soprano), Tom Krause (baritone), Werner Krenn (tenor), Ian Partridge (tenor), Helen Watts (mezzo-soprano)
Choeur Pro Arte de Lausanne, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet
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Special offer. Handel: Cantatas; Arias
Helen Watts (contralto), Robert Tear (tenor)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
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Special offer. JS Bach: Cantatas
Suzanne Danco (soprano), Elly Ameling (soprano), Helen Watts (contralto), Werner Krenn (tenor), Marius Rintzler (bass), Gabriele Fontana (soprano), Julia Hamari (mezzo), Gösta Winbergh (tenor), Tom Krause (baritone)
Wiener Akademie-Chor, Hymnuschor, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Karl Münchinger
Fascinating to chart Munchinger's development as a Bach conductor over 30 years - from the early stiffness of BWV 202 to the surefooted majesty of Ein' feste Burg. —
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Special offer. Benjamin Britten: Choral Works
Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano), Helen Watts (contralto)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Benjamin Britten
Both as conductor or organist George Malclom excels, securing a taut account of the inexplicably sidelined Cantata Academica. On Westminster Cathedral home-ground the Missa brevis radiates authority. —
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Special offer. Elly Ameling - Bach Edition
Elly Ameling (soprano), Helmut Winschermann, Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano), Helen Watts (contralto), Werner Krenn, Tom Krause (bass), Peter Pears (tenor), Hermann Prey (baritone), Marga Höffgen (contralto), Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Julia Hamari (mezzo-soprano), Werner Hollweg, Dieter Ellenbeck,...
The 20 discs of this set are a monumental legacy, not only to Ameling’s pure voice and her interpretive skill at finding the expressiveness in Bach’s music, but also in her ability to find the... —
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20 CDs
Original price ($125.25) Reduced price $81.41
