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English bass-baritone
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2021-11-04 00:00:00
Tippett: The Rose Lake & The Vision of St. Augustine (Colin Davis & Michael Tippett)
Michael Tippett:01. - 12. The Rose Lake (1995) [29'56]13. - 15. The Vision of St. Augustine (1965) * [38'14]John Shirley-Quirk- baritone, London Symphony Orchestra Chorus*; London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Colin Davis and Michael Tippett* RCA 82876642842 [recorded June 1971* & April 1997; RCA LP issued 1972*, Conifer CD issued 1997; RCA CD & digital download 2004] [digital download; flacs, Conifer booklet, cover and inlay scans] Recording venue: Walthamstow Town Hall, LondonRecording engineers: Bob Auger* and Tony Faulkner; Producers: James Burnett* and Andrew Keener RCA reissue from Conifer original. This download kindly made available by friend Howard. Conifer booklet from archive.org. Download from Mega.
2021-05-25 07:09:24
Exploring the operas of Gustav Holst at the Leeds Opera Festival
Like the operas of his friend and colleague, Ralph Vaughan Williams, the operas of Gustav Holst remain on the fringes of the repertoire at best. Whilst Holst's one-act opera Savitri might occasionally pop up (partly due to its sheer practicality), his other operas remain real rarities. I have seen Savtri (memorably with Janet Baker and John Shirley Quirk at Scottish Opera), however his other works including At The Boar's Head, The Perfect Fool and The Wandering Scholar, have so far eluded me. However, that is about to change because the 2021 Leeds Opera Festival, presented by the Northern Opera Group, is bringing Holst's operas to the fore. Running from 23 to 30 August 2021, the festival is presenting a double bill of Holst's Savitri and At the Boar's Head, the first based on a tale from a Sanskrit epic the second based on Shakespeare. Savitri will feature Meeta Raval in the […]
2021-02-22 00:00:00
Decca Eloquence 4
Alicia De Larrocha The First Recordings Works by Mompou Esplá, Granados Rodrigo and Turina Arrigo Boito Mefistofele (Great Scenes) Cesare Siepi Renata Tebaldi Giuseppe Di Stefano Tulio Serafin Benjamin Britten Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Winter Words Tit for Tat Purcell realisations Peter Pears tenor John Shirley-Quirk baritone James Bowman countertenor Igor Stravinsky Petrushka La Sacre du Printemps Orchestre de la Société des concerts du Conservatoire Julius Katchen piano Pierre Monteux Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 4 "Romantic" London Symphony Orchestra Itsvan Kertesz John Coprario Funeral Teares Consort Fantasies 1, 5 and 8 Emma Kirkby The Consort of Musicke Anthony Rooley Johann Strauss II Die Fliedermaus Julius Patzak Hilde Gueden Alfred Poell Wiener Philharmoniker Clemens Krauss […]
2021-01-16 01:00:00
Shostakovich - Lady Macbeth and Songs - The Nose - Chung - Gergiev - Jarvi - Ashkenazy
Dmitri Shostakovich Two Fables of Krylov, Op. 4 Larissa Diadkova mezzo-soprano Three Romances on Poems by Pushkin, Op. 46a Six Romances, Op.62/140 Orchestral version Sergei Leiferkus bass From Jewish Folk Poetry, Op.79a orchestral version Luba Orgonasova soprano Philip Langridge tenor Nathalie Stutzmann contralto Six Romances on Texts by Japanese Poets, Op. 21 Ilya Levinsky tenor Six Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva, Op. 143a for contralto and chamber orchestra Elena Zaremba contralto Suite on verses by Michelangelo Buonarroti, for bass & orchestra, Op. 145a Sergei Leiferkus baritone Gothemburg Symphony Orchestra Neeme Jarvi Four Verses of Captain Lebyadkin Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau baritone Vladimir Ashkenazy piano Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok, Op. 127 Elisabeth Söderström soprano Christopher Rowland violin Ioan Davies cello Vladimir Ashkenazy piano Suite on Poems of Michelangelo, Op.145 John Shirley-Quirk baritone Vladimir Ashkenazy piano Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District Aage Haugland - Maria […]
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