Sally Matthews
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Britten: The Turn of the Screw
Andrew Kennedy (Prologue, Peter Quint), Sally Matthews (Governess), Michael Clayton-Jolly (Miles), Lucy Hall (Flora), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs Grose) & Katherine Broderick (Miss Jessel)
London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Farnes
Britten's opera makes its usual harrowing impact...Broderick's darker-toned Miss Jessel contrasts well with [Matthews]...while Catherine Wyn-Rogers's Mrs Grose is faultlessly secure and vivid.... — More…
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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
Christine Brewer (Leonore), John MacMaster (Florestan), Daniel Borowski (Don Fernando), Juha Uusitalo (Don Pizarro), Kristinn Sigmundsson (Rocco), Sally Matthews (Marzelline), Andrew Kennedy (Jaquino)
London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
…Colin Davis's conducting of the London Symphony Orchestra and the vocal forces is so impressive that it ranks with the greatest accounts I have ever heard of this work… Christine Brewer is... — More…
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Britten: Peter Grimes
Glenn Winslade (Peter Grimes), Janice Watson (Ellen Orford), Anthony Michaels-Moore (Balstrode), Jill Grove (Auntie), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs Sedley), James Rutherford (Swallow), Christopher Gillett (Bob Boles), Nathan Gunn (Ned Keene)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
and Dietsch: Le Vaisseau Fantôme
Evgeny Nikitin (Der Holländer), Ingela Brimberg (Senta), Eric Cutler (Georg), Mika Kares (Donald), Bernard Richter (Der Steuermann), Helene Schneiderman (Mary), Russell Braun (Troïl), Sally Matthews (Minna), Bernard Richter (Magnus), Ugo Rabec (Barlow) & Eric Cutler (Éric)
Les Musiciens...
Minkowski and his players give Dietsch all the vitality they can. The cast sings with conviction...Dietsch by turns sounds like Auber, Meyerbeer, even Gounod: elegant, lyrical but never distinctive..... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Opera
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Opera, February 2014, Recording of the Month
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Handel: Deidamia Sally Matthews (Deidamia), Veronica Cangemi (Nerea), Olga Pasichnyk (Achille), Silvia Tro Santafé (Ulisse), Andrew Foster-Williams (Fenice), Umberto Chiummo (Licomede) & Jan-Willem Schaafsma (Nestore)
Concerto Köln, Ivor Bolton (conductor) & David Alden (director)
Alden's approach is lightly ironic, matching well with a piece that treats its material with a knowing air...Ivor Bolton and Concerto Koln provide the expert musical underpinning. Sally Matthews... — More…
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Opera, April 2013, Recording of the Month
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Britten: The Turn of the Screw
Sally Matthews (Governess), Julian Hubbard (Peter Quint), Giselle Allen (Miss Jessel), Carole Wilson (Mrs Grose), Katharina Bierweiler (Flora), Thomas Heinen (Miles), Ed Lyon (Prologue)
La Monnaie Chamber Orchestra, Ben Glassberg
Ben Glassberg contributes a thoughtful essay to the booklet; with a few exceptions, his tempos are marginally broader than Britten’s, but the astonishing variety of invention, texture and atmosphere... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Opera
2 CDs
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Weber: Der Freischütz
RecommendedChristine Brewer (Agathe), Sally Matthews (Ännchen), Lars Woldt (Kaspar), Simon O’Neill (Max), Stephan Loges (Ottokar/Zamiel), Martin Snell (Kuno), Gidon Saks (A Hermit), Marcus Farnsworth (Kilian), Lucy Hall (Bridesmaids)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis
This is a sincere reading of the work, but sincerity should not be confused with a lack of sophistication. The orchestral textures are pristine, the tempos and colours bracing and plaintive,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th May 2013
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Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384
Sally Matthews (Konstanze), Edgaras Montvidas (Belmonte), Tobias Kehrer (Osmin), Mari Eriksmoen (Blonde), Brenden Gunnell (Pedrillo) & Franck Saurel (Pasha Selim)
The Glyndebourne Chorus & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Robin Ticciati (conductor) & David McVicar (director)
This [is] the most convincing dramaturgical presentation of the opera in recent times…Kehrer is magnificent as Osmin, Gunnell is lyrical and alert as Pedrillo, and Eriksmoen steers a delicate... — More…
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Opera, September 2016, Recording of the Month
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New,
Best of BRSO Sebastian Manz, Alwyn Mellor, Anna Gabler, Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano), Claudia Huckle, Katherine Broderick (soprano), Eva Vogel, Anna Lapkovskaja, Simone Schröder, Martha Argerich (piano), Genia Kühmeier (soprano), Elisabeth Kulman (contralto), Mark Padmore (tenor), Hanno Müller-Brachmann...
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Puccini: Gianni Schicchi
RecommendedAlessandro Corbelli (Schicchi), Massimo Giordano (Rinuccio), Sally Matthews (Lauretta), Felicity Palmer (Zita), Marie McLaughlin (La Ciesca)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, directed by Annabel Arden
A notably stellar cast in Puccini's black comedy 'Gianni Schicchi' — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, DVD Choice
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Building a Library, June 2005, Recommended DVD
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