Robert Murray
Nationality: British
British tenor Robert Murray was born in Essex and trained at the Royal College of Music, the National Opera Studio, and on Covent Garden’s Jette Parker Young Artists Programme; early career successes included second prize at the 2003 Kathleen Ferrier Awards. His discography includes Berlioz’s Grand Messe des Morts and mendelssohn’s Elijah with Paul McCreesh and Gabrieli on Signum, Jonathan in Handel’s Saul with The Sixteen and Harry Christophers on Coro, Bob Boles on ‘Grimes on the Beach’ (an on-location open-air performance and recording of Britten’s opera on Aldeburgh Beach to mark the composer’s centenary in 2013), Schumann songs with Graham Johnson on Hyperion, and Il Sogno di Scipione and Mitridate in Ian Page’s ongoing Mozart opera series with Classical Opera.
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Special offer. Britten: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra
Paul Watkins (cello), Robert Murray (tenor) BBC Philharmonic, Edward Gardner
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Stuart Skelton (Grimes), Erin Wall (Ellen), Roderick Williams (Balstrode), Susan Bickley (Auntie), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs Sedley), Robert Murray (Bob Boles), James Gilchrist (Horace Adams), Marcus Farnsworth (Ned Keene) Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
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Special offer. Handel: Saul
Christopher Purves (Saul), Sarah Connolly (David), Robert Murray (Jonathan), Elizabeth Atherton (Merab), Joélle Harvey (Michal), Mark Dobell (High Priest), Jeremy Budd (Witch of Endor) & Stuart Young (Ghost of Samuel) The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
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Wagner: Parsifal
Lars Cleveman (Parsifal), Katarina Dalayman (Kundry), Sir John Tomlinson (Gurnemanz), Detlef Roth (Amfortas), Tom Fox (Klingsor), Reinhard Hagen (Titurel) Hallé, Sir Mark Elder
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