Head, M - The Estuary
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The result is musically satisfying and rather touching, and Johnston lends her warm, communicative mezzo to a range of idioms…The most intriguing parts of the disc are the new works; no fewer... —
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2002, Disc of the Month
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Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Debut Recording
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Special offer. This Other Eden: A Landscape of English Poetry and Song
Kitty Whately (mezzo), Joseph Middleton (piano), with Kevin Whatley, Madelaine Newton, Magnus Johnston, Brian O'Kane
Navarra Quartet
Whately's choice is eclectic…[and] she sings them with attractive brightness and fervour. Her tone is not yet as distinctive as Janet Baker or Sarah Connolly, say, but there's a plangent shading... —
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Michael Head: Songs
Ailish Tynan (soprano), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone) & Christopher Glynn (piano)
Head created the most inventive and sympathetic writing for voice and piano, in asymmetrical, free-flowing, artful settings of poets such as Walter de la Mare, John Masefield and Christina Rossetti.... —
