Browse: Michael Chance (counter-tenor)
This page lists all recordings performed by Michael Chance.
Britten: Death in Venice
Philip Langridge (Aschenbach), Alan Opie (Traveller/Elderly Fop/Old Gondolier/Hotel Manager/Hotel Barber/Leader of the Players/Voice of Dionysus), Michael Chance (Voice of Apollo)
BBC Singers, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
The Pears/Bedford version tends to emphasise the opera's elegiac side… The Chandos… is certainly not lacking in depth. But it also has an incisive clarity matching Richard Hickox's generally... — More…
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Vivaldi: Gloria & Bach: Magnificat
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Emma Kirkby, Tessa Bonner (sopranos), Michael Chance (counter-tenor), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
Collegium Musicum 90, Richard Hickox
Hickox sets effective tempos in Bach's Magnificat and points up the many striking contrasts in colour and texture with which the piece abounds. From among the many successful features of the... — More…
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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
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Lynne Dawson, Carol Hall, Nancy Argenta, Mary Nichols, Michael Chance, Ashley Stafford, Wynford Evans, Howard Milner, Andrew Murgatroyd, Lloyd Morgan, Stephen Varcoe
Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Gardiner bases his forces on the famous memorandum which Bach handed to the Leipzig town council in 1730 outlining the vocal and instrumental requirements for performances of his church music.... — More…
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Davies, Peter Maxwell: Taverner
Martyn Hill (Taverner), David Wilson-Johnson (Jester), Stephen Richardson (Henry VIII), Fiona Kimm (Virgin Mary), Michael Chance (Priest/God), Quentin Hayes (White Abbot) & Peter Sidhom (Richard Taverner)
Fretwork, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta Voices, His Majestys Sagbutts...
The opera is full… bitterly ironic juxtapositions, such as the 'holy' chanting from monks heard against the cynical Realpolitik of the negotiations between King and the Cardinal. Making the... — More…
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Vivaldi: Gloria in D major, RV589, etc.
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Sarah Fox, Deborah Norman, Michael Chance, James Gilchrist, Jonathan Lemalu
Academy of Ancient Music, Choir of King's College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
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Bach Cantatas Volume 18
Cantatas for Christmas Day, Cantatas for the First Sunday after Epiphany & Cantatas for the Feast of Epiphany
Claron McFadden (soprano), Bernarda Fink (mezzo), Sally Bruce-Payne (alto), Michael Chance (countertenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Christopher Genz, Dietrich Henschel (baritones)
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
The two strongly contrasting arias [of BWV 63], both duets, are expressively sung but it is Bernarda Fink's beautifully controlled, extended recitative which stands out for its tender articulation...James... — More…
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Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629
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Ann Murray, Lorna Anderson, Gillian Fisher, John Mark Ainsley, Michael Chance, Richard Suart, Ian Partridge, Michael George
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
The Fairy Queen hardly an 'opera' in the conventional sense: its musical virtues lie in the composer's uncanny ability to summon a discrete, potent atmosphere whose capacity to move the listener... — More…
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Zelenka: Lamentationes (6) Jeremiæ Prophetæ, ZWV53
Michael Chance (countertenor), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Michael George (bass)
The Chandos Baroque Players
Between the incomparable settings by Thomas Tallis and the extremely austere one by Stravinsky (which he called Threni) the Lamentationsof Jeremiah have attracted surprisingly few composers.... — More…
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Vivaldi: Gloria, Nisi Dominus, Stabat Mater & Salve Regina
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Michael Chance (countertenor)
Choir of the English Concert & The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
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$13.25
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