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Britten: Owen Wingrave
Peter Coleman-Wright (Owen Wingrave), Robin Leggate ( Sir Philip Wingrave/Narrator), Elizabeth Connell (Miss Wingrave), Janice Watson (Mrs. Coyle), Sarah Fox (Mrs. Julien), Alan Opie (Spencer Coyle), Pamela Helen Stephen (Kate) & James Gilchrist (Lechmere)
City of London Sinfonia, Richard...
Hickox's excellent cast boasts some supreme exponents. Hickox draws haunting colours and chordings from his City of London Sinfonia, and the recording is flawlessly presented. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Opera
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2008, Editor's Choice
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Strauss: Ariadne on Naxos
Sung in English: translation by Christopher Cowell
Christine Brewer (Ariadne/Prima Donna), Robert Dean Smith (Bacchus/The Tenor), Alice Coote (Composer), Gillian Keith (Zerbinetta), Stephen Fry (Major-Domo), Alan Opie (Music Master), John Graham-Hall (Dancing Master/Scaramuccio), Roderick Williams (Harlequin), Matthew Rose (Truffaldino), Wynne Evans...
Brewer's luscious Ariadne had to be captured on disc...There's another essential performance from Alice Coote...with unflinchingly full top notes that few other genuine mezzos possess...I've... — More…
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, Opera Choice
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Britten: Peter Grimes
RecommendedPhilip Langridge (Peter Grimes), Janice Watson (Ellen Orford), Alan Opie (Balstrode), Ameral Gunson (Auntie), John Graham-Hall (Bob Boles), John Connell (Swallow), Anne Collins (Mrs Sedley), Roderick Williams (Ned Keene);
London Symphony Chorus, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
Any reading that so potently confirms the genius of this piece must have a distinguished place in the discography. In the first place there's Langridge's tense, sinewy, sensitive Grimes. Predictably... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 39th Awards (1996), Best Opera Recording
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Building a Library, April 2023, Recommended Recording
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Vaughan Williams: The Pilgrim's Progress
RecommendedGerald Finley (baritone), Peter Coleman-Wright (baritone), Jeremy White (bass), Richard Coxon (tenor), Roderick Williams (bass), Gidon Saks (bass), Francis Egerton (tenor), Rebecca Evans (soprano), Susan Gritton (soprano), Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano), Anne-Marie Owens (mezzo-soprano), Mark...
John Noble was a fine Pilgrim on the old Boult recording, but Gerald Finley brings not only a voice that's as good and well suited but also a dramatic quality that is more colourful and intense.... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Vaughan Williams: Riders to the Sea
RecommendedIngrid Attrot (soprano), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Linda Finnie (mezzo-soprano), Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano) & Karl Daymond (baritone), Philip Dukes (viola)
Northern Sinfonia, The Sinfonia Chorus, Richard Hickox
A one-act opera based on the play of the same name, Riders to the Sea is a straightforward tragedy that pits helpless humans against the remorseless sea of Galway Bay. Richard Hickox leads the... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Vaughan Williams: The Poisoned Kiss
Janice Watson, James Gilchrist, Roderick Williams, John Graham-Hall, Richard Stuart, Mark Richardson, Gail Pearson, Helen Williams, Neal Davies, Anne Collins
Adrian Partington Singers, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox
Written in the late 1920s when he was at the height of his powers, The Poisoned Kiss is Vaughan Williams's forgotten opera: this is the first complete recording. The composer chose his friend... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2004, Editor's Choice
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Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91
Ekaterina Morozova (Natasha Rostova), Roderick Williams (Andrei Bolkonsky), Justin Lavender (Pierre Bezukhov), Oleg Balashov (Anatol Kuragin), Pamela Helen Stephen (Sonya), Catherine Pierard (Maria Bolkonsky/Vassilissa), Igor Matioukhin (Dolokhov), Elena Ionova (Helena Bezukhova), Alan Ewing (Marshal...
Ekaterina Morozova is a moving Natasha. Slavonic in timbre, weighty but still girlsih enough, with an edge to the voice that rarely turns squally...Roderick Willians is a fresh, virile Andrei,... — More…
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492 (highlights) Bryn Terfel (Figaro), Alison Hagley (Susanna), Rodney Gilfry (Count Almaviva), Hillevi Martinpelto (Countess Almaviva), Pamela Helen Stephen (Cherubino)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
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Vaughan Williams: Riders to the Sea
RecommendedIngrid Attrot (soprano), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Linda Finnie (mezzo-soprano), Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano) & Karl Daymond (baritone), Philip Dukes (viola)
Northern Sinfonia, The Sinfonia Chorus, Richard Hickox
A one-act opera based on the play of the same name, Riders to the Sea is a straightforward tragedy that pits helpless humans against the remorseless sea of Galway Bay. Richard Hickox leads the... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Britten: Paul Bunyan
Peter Coleman-Wright (Narrator), Kenneth Cranham (Paul Bunyan), Kurt Streit (Johnny Inkslinger), Susan Gritton (Tiny), Timothy Robinson (Slim), Jeremy White (Hel Helson), Francis Egerton (Sam Sharkey), Graeme Broadbent (Big Benny), Roderick Earle (John Shears), Henry Moss (Western Union Boy), Lilian...
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