City of London Sinfonia
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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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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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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 - Choral Works
Recommendedfrom CDA66420, CDA66655, CDA66511 & CDA66569
Elizabeth Connell (soprano), Amanda Roocroft (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Martyn Hill (tenor), Maldwyn Davies (tenor), Anne Dawson (soprano), Linda Kitchen (soprano), Alan Opie (baritone), Gwynne Howell (bass), Thomas Allen (baritone), Nobuko Imai (viola), Judith Howarth (soprano), Matthew...
Best has a fine sense of VW as a dramatic composer, bringing tremendous urgency to Dona Nobis Pacem and real passion to the Five Mystical Songs. Best's Serenade to Music is the original, not... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th July 2008
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Building a Library, July 2017, First Choice
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Britten: The Rape of Lucretia
Jean Rigby (Lucretia), Nigel Robson (Male Chorus), Catherine Pierard (Female Chorus), Donald Maxwell (Tarquinius), Alastair Miles (Collatinus), Alan Opie (Junius), Patricia Rozario (Lucia), Ameral Gunson (Bianca)
City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
Hickox allows his singers plenty of space with no loss of tension; they respond impressively, with Catherine Pierard exceptional as the Female Chorus. — More…
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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream
James Bowman (Oberon), Lillian Watson (Tytania), John Graham-Hall (Lysander), Henry Herford (Demetrius), Della Jones (Hermia), Jill Gomez (Helena), Norman Bailey (Theseus), Penelope Walker (Hippolyta)
City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
this sumptuous Abbey Road recording features a strong cast — More…
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Classical Focus
Maria Kliegel (cello), Boris Giltburg (piano), Dagoberto Linhares, Matthew Schellhorn (piano), Barthold Kuijken (flute), Arnie Tanimoto, Donald Livingston, Yue Yu, Anthony Hewitt, Jenö Jandó (piano), Anthony Camden, Takako Nishizaki (violin), Graham Anthony Devine (guitar), Marco Fornaciari, Adrian...
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Terrific Trumpet John Roderick MacDonald (trumpet), Martin Stephan (organ), Jürgen Schuster (trumpet), Michael Meeks (trumpet), Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), Niklas Eklund (trumpet), Huw Morgan (trumpet), Patricia Ulrich (piano), Miroslav Kejmar (trumpet), Thomas Reiner (trumpet), Laura Vukobratović (trumpet),...
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I Like Choir!
Donaldson Bell (bass), Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano), Rudolf Petrak (tenor), Shirley Verrett (mezzo-soprano), Aldo Baldin (tenor), Edith Wiens (soprano), Gabriele Schreckenbach (contralto), Gerhard Faulstisch (baritone), Robert Green (organ), Martin Baker (organ), David Briggs (organ)
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Gay: The Beggar's Opera
Tom Randle (tenor), Leah-Marian Jones (mezzo soprano), Sarah Fox (soprano), Jeremy White (bass), Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Donald Maxwell (baritone), Robert Anthony Gardiner (tenor or speaking role), Frances McCafferty (contralto) & Sirena Tocco (actor)
City of London Sinfonia, Christian...
…wonderful singing, supported by often delectable playing from the City of London Sinfonia under Christian Curnyn… — More…
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