Kim Begley
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
RecommendedMatthias Goerne (Wotan), Kim Begley (Loge), Michelle DeYoung (Fricka), Deborah Humble (Erda), Peter Sidhom (Alberich), Anna Samuil (Freia), Kwangchul Youn (Fasolt), Stephen Milling (Fafner), David Cangelosi (Mime), Charles Reid (Froh), Oleksandr Pushniak (Donner), Eri Nakamura (Woglinde), Aurhelia...
Sidhom's dark-leather tone and malevolent characterisation make an impressive Alberich, fellow Briton Kim Begley is a smooth, sardonic Loge, ideally lyrical in his narration...Van Zweden conducts... — More…
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
2 CDs
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Wagner: The Flying Dutchman
John Tomlinson (The Dutchman), Nina Stemme (Senta), Eric Halfvarson (Daland), Kim Begley (Erik), Patricia Bardon (Mary), Peter Wedd (Steersman)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, David Parry
Tomlinson, a favourite in the title-role at Bayreuth, now a veteran, is masterful as the Dutchman, exploiting his wide tonal and expressive range, with few signs of wear on the voice...[Stemme... — More…
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Szymanowski: Król Roger
Mariusz Kwiecien (King Roger II of Sicily), Georgia Jarman (Roxana), Saimir Pirgu (Shepherd), Kim Begley (Edrisi), Alan Ewing (Archbishop), Agnes Zwierko (Deaconess)
Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano (conductor) & Kasper Holten (director)
all the imagination of Kasper Holten's production coheres compellingly, and Antonio Pappano shapes an extremely lucid performance that somehow manages to be taut and lush at the same time. Mariusz... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Opera, February 2016, Recording of the Month
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Szymanowski: Król Roger
Mariusz Kwiecien (King Roger II of Sicily), Georgia Jarman (Roxana), Saimir Pirgu (Shepherd), Kim Begley (Edrisi), Alan Ewing (Archbishop), Agnes Zwierko (Deaconess)
Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano (conductor) & Kasper Holten (director)
all the imagination of Kasper Holten's production coheres compellingly, and Antonio Pappano shapes an extremely lucid performance that somehow manages to be taut and lush at the same time. Mariusz... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Opera, February 2016, Recording of the Month
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
RecommendedMatthias Goerne (Wotan), Kim Begley (Loge), Michelle DeYoung (Fricka), Deborah Humble (Erda), Peter Sidhom (Alberich), Anna Samuil (Freia), Kwangchul Youn (Fasolt), Stephen Milling (Fafner), David Cangelosi (Mime), Charles Reid (Froh), Oleksandr Pushniak (Donner), Eri Nakamura (Woglinde), Aurhelia...
the Hong Kong Philharmonic sound fully up for the occasion and have the stamina for this demanding piece…Matthias Goerne sings Wotan beautifully with much baritonal sophistication, predictable... — More…
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Busoni: Doktor Faust
RecommendedDietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich Henschel, Markus Hollop, Kim Begley, Torsten Kerl & Eva Jenis
Choeur et Orchestre de l'Opera de Lyon, Kent Nagano
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Grammy Awards, 43rd Awards (2000), Best Opera Recording
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Strauss, R: Salome
Angela Denoke (Salome), Kim Begley (Herodes), Doris Soffel (Herodias), Alan Held (Jochanaan) & Marcel Reijans (Narraboth)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Stefan Soltesz (conductor) & Nikolaus Lehnhoff (stage director)
Denoke wins her place in the sun as a lithe if hardly sex-kittenish Salome. She has an expressive, secure and slightly dark-timbred voice...Held is a physically and vocally powerful prophet...It's... — More…
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Wagner: Das Rheingold Robert Hale (Wotan), Hanna Schwarz (Fricka), Franz-Josef Kapellmann (Alberich), Peter Schreier (Mime), Nancy Gustafson (Freia), Kim Begley (Loge), Thomas Sunnegardh (Froh), Eike Wilm Schulte (Donner), Elena Zaremba (Erda), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (Fasolt), Walter Fink (Fafner), Gabriele Fontana (Woglinde),...
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Bellini: Norma Joan Sutherland (Norma), Luciano Pavarotti (Pollione), Montserrat Caballé (Adalgisa), Samuel Ramey (Oroveso)
Orchestra & Chorus of Welsh National Opera, Richard Bonynge
Though Dame Joan Sutherland was 58 when her second Norma recording was made, her singing is still impressive, but Pavarotti is in some ways the set's greatest strength, easily expressive as... — More…
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Verdi : La traviata
Carlo Rizzi & London Symphony Orchestra, Monica Bacelli (mezzo-soprano vocals), Neil Shicoff (tenor vocals), Nicholas Folwell (baritone vocals), Peter Sidhom (baritone vocals), Peter Bronder (tenor vocals), Patricia Spence (mezzo-soprano vocals), Ambrosian Singers (chorus), Alastair Miles (bass...
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