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Browse: Michael Chance (counter-tenor)
This page lists all recordings performed by Michael Chance.
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Handel: Messiah
Arleen Auger, Anne Sofie von Otter, Michael Chance, Howard Crook & John Tomlinson
The English Concert Choir & The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
One of the freshest and most exciting Messiahs on CD reconciling 'authentic' practice with the work's undoubted scope for grandeur. Superb soloists. — More…
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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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Gramophone Awards, 2005, Finalist - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2005, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2005, Editor's Choice
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Herreweghe unwraps JS Bach's Christmas present to Leipzig with a typically easygoing musicality that sometimes lacks fire. — More…
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Vivaldi: Gloria in D major, RV589, etc.
RecommendedSarah 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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Building a Library, December 2018, Also Recommended
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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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Gramophone Magazine, December 2010, Editor's Choice
2 CDs
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Vivaldi: Gloria & Bach: Magnificat
RecommendedEmma 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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Building a Library, December 2018, Recommended Recording
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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
RecommendedLynne 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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Gramophone Magazine, 100 Greatest Recordings
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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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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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Opera
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Opera, April 2010, Recording of the Month
2 CDs
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Proud Songsters: English Solo Song
Gerald Finley, James Gilchrist, Michael Chance, Lawrence Zazzo, Tim Mead, Ruairi Bowen, Andrew Staples, Ashley Riches, Mark Stone, Simon Lepper
Richly harmonised Edwardian salon settings of distinguished poetry mingle with mildly poignant, almost Ravelian (though avoiding that French master’s occasional acerbic tartness) post-World War... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2003, First Choice
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Building a Library, October 2017, Also Recommended
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