Ernest Ford: Mr Jericho, Sullivan: Haddon Hall & Cellier: Captain Billy

Casts are of fine quality and have the style at their fingertips. The BBC forces are excellent. Conductor John Andrews makes the best possible case for all three pieces, bringing spirit, dash... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 20th Mar 2020
Catalogue No: 2CDLX7372
Label: Dutton

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Ford, E: Mr Jericho

Henry Waddington (bass-baritone), Ed Lyon (tenor), Ben McAteer (baritone), Fiona Kimm (mezzo-soprano), Eleanor Dennis (soprano)
BBC Concert Orchestra
John Andrews

Sullivan, A: Haddon Hall

Ed Lyon (tenor), Henry Waddington (bass-baritone), Adrian Thompson (tenor), Ben McAteer (baritone), Donald Maxwell (baritone), Sarah Tynan (soprano), Fiona Kimm (mezzo-soprano), Angela Simkin (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra
John Andrews

Cellier, Francois: Captain Billy

Ben McAteer (baritone), Ed Lyon (tenor), Henry Waddington (bass-baritone), Fiona Kimm (mezzo-soprano), Eleanor Dennis (soprano)
BBC Concert Orchestra
John Andrews

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July 2020

Casts are of fine quality and have the style at their fingertips. The BBC forces are excellent. Conductor John Andrews makes the best possible case for all three pieces, bringing spirit, dash and sensitivity to his task.

September/October 2020

The performance on the new Dutton recording is marvelous. All of the singers bring the appropriate vocal material for their respective assignments, a complete and idiomatic embrace of Sullivan’s Victorian-era score, and crystal-clear diction. Conductor John Andrews elicits glowing and incisive performances from all concerned.

July 2020

It’s hard to imagine that Richard D’Oyly Carte’s hard-working repertory company performed [Mr Jericho and Captain Billy] with anything like the sensitivity and finesse that they receive here from John Andrews and his cast...That same polish, vivacity and sense of style pays glorious dividends in Haddon Hall...for the quality of the performances, as well as the imaginative choice of repertoire, this recording sets a new standard in the presentation of English light opera on disc.

October 2020

With Fiona Kimm and Henry Waddington in sterling support, both Mr Jericho and Captain Billy (and Martin T. Yates’s authoritative notes) make attractive extensions to the slightly subfusc main mansion.

5th April 2020

More Gilbert-less Sullivan from John Andrews, now a dab hand at the composer’s easy melodic vein...Two well-filled CDs might be too much of a good thing, but there is stylish singing, above all from the veterans Henry Waddington and Fiona Kimm, and a charming Haddon Hall heroine in Sarah Tynan.

19th April 2020

Sullivan’s attractive melodies, allied to the dullish words of Sydney Grundy, have their own worth, while Andrews’s conducting gusto generally draws good things from the BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Singers and soloists, all of them palpably enjoying themselves.

Ernest Ford: Mr Jericho, Sullivan: Haddon Hall & Cellier: Captain Billy

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