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Edward Gardner conducts Britten
Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Maxim Rysanov (viola)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
The Charm is a total winner, wrapped by Matthews in string woodwind sleep-music so familiar from the Nocturne and phrased by Connolly with alternate tenderness and edginess. Maxim Rysanov compels... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2011, Editor's Choice
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Jessye Norman - The Unreleased Masters
Strauss, Wagner, Berlioz, Haydn & Britten
Jessye Norman (soprano), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Kurt Masur, Berliner Philharmoniker, James Levine, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Norman possessed one of the great voices in modern times, and she matured into an artist almost at the height of that voice. When the two came together, as they do throughout these performances,... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Britten: The Rape of Lucretia, and Phaedra
Janet Baker (Lucretia), Peter Pears (Male Chorus), Heather Harper (Female Chorus), Benjamin Luxon (Tarquinius), Bryan Drake (Junius), John Shirley-Quirk (Collatinus), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Bianca), Jenny Hill (Lucia)
English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten, Steuart Bedford
two outstanding performances by Dame Janet Baker, recorded at the peak of her career...Luxon makes the selfish Tarquinius into a living character...The seductive beauty of the writing - Britten... —
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Special offer. Britten: The Rescue of Penelope Parts 1 and 2, etc.
Dame Janet Baker (narrator), Alison Hagley (Athene), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Artemis), John Mark Ainsley (Hermes), William Dazeley (Apollo), Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo soprano)
Hallé Orchestra, Kent Nagano
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Britten: Phaedra, A Charm of Lullabies, Lachrymae, Two Portraits & Sinfonietta
Dame Sarah Connolly, Maxim Rysanov (viola), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
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Janet Baker - Plaisir d'amour
A Celebration of the Art of Dame Janet Baker
Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)
A fine selection which demonstrates the English mezzo's huge range of expression in repertory ranging from Baroque to Britten (the cantata Phaedra written for her) and the unique commitment... —
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Britten: Serenade, Nocturne and Phaedra
RecommendedPhilip Langridge (tenor), Frank Lloyd (horn), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano)
English Chamber Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, Steuart Bedford
Langridge adopts an appropriately ghostly voice for the Dirge - dramatic and dark...The English Chamber Orchestra, who have been brilliant throughout, really show their colours in the Sonnet,... —
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Building A Library, March 2022, Also Recommended
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The Essential Benjamin Britten
Daniel Hope (violin), Nicholas Bone (viola), William Butt (cello), Carol Vaness, Jerry Hadley & Thomas Hampson, Dame Janet Baker & Lorraine Hunt, Thomas Hampson & Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Darcey Bussell & Jonathan Cope
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, American...
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