Christine Brewer
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Great Strauss Scenes
Christine Brewer (soprano), Eric Owens (bass-baritone)
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles
Brewer sails through the test. Her Elektra is a young woman shocked into life by the arrival of Orestes...her voice lightened to give her youth as she waits; and then comes a seemingly unstoppable... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Recital
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2010, Opera Choice
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
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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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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
Christine Brewer (Leonore), John MacMaster (Florestan), Daniel Borowski (Don Fernando), Juha Uusitalo (Don Pizarro), Kristinn Sigmundsson (Rocco), Sally Matthews (Marzelline), Andrew Kennedy (Jaquino)
London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
…Colin Davis's conducting of the London Symphony Orchestra and the vocal forces is so impressive that it ranks with the greatest accounts I have ever heard of this work… Christine Brewer is... — More…
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
John Treleaven (Tristan), Christine Brewer (Isolde), Dagmar Peckova (Brangaene), Peter Rose (Konig Marke), Boaz Daniel (Kurwenal), Jared Holt (Melot), Eugene Ginty (Hirt), Jonathan Lemalu (Steuerman), Mark Le Brocq (Stimme eines jungen Seemanns)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles
…the Tristan of John Treleaven… makes a great deal of the part, and rises to noble heights in Act III. Christine Brewer is quite stupendous, the finest Isolde I have heard for decades… There... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Opera Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2006, Opera Choice
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Weber: Der Freischütz
RecommendedChristine Brewer (Agathe), Sally Matthews (Ännchen), Lars Woldt (Kaspar), Simon O’Neill (Max), Stephan Loges (Ottokar/Zamiel), Martin Snell (Kuno), Gidon Saks (A Hermit), Marcus Farnsworth (Kilian), Lucy Hall (Bridesmaids)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis
This is a sincere reading of the work, but sincerity should not be confused with a lack of sophistication. The orchestral textures are pristine, the tempos and colours bracing and plaintive,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th May 2013
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Strauss: Four Last Songs & Death and Transfiguration - Wagner: Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Christine Brewer (soprano)
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles
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The Very Best of Dvorák
Stefan Veselka (piano), Zhou Qian (violin), Edmund Battersby (piano), Jana Valaskova (soprano), Christine Brewer (soprano), John Aler (tenor), Ding Gao (baritone), Marietta Simpson (contralto), Maria Kliegel (cello), Ivan Klánsky (piano), Christian Kohn (piano), Silke-Thora Matthies (piano)
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Everybody's Mozart: Highlights from Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro
Christine Brewer (soprano), Bo Skovhus (baritone), Alessandro Corbelli (bass (vocal), baritone, bass-baritone), Jerry Hadley (tenor), Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Nuccia Focile (soprano), Umberto Chiummo (bass (vocal)), Alastair Miles (bass (vocal)), Alfonso Antoniozzi (bass (vocal), bass-baritone),...
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Barber: Vanessa
Christine Brewer (soprano), William Burder, Simon Birchall, Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano), Catherin Wyn-Rogers, Stepher Betteridge, Neal Davies (baritone), Stephen Charlesworth
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Leonard Slatkin
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A Guided Tour of Nationalism in the Romantic Era, Vol. 7
Tatjana Franova (piano), Takako Nishizaki (violin), Jana Valaskova (soprano), Christine Brewer (soprano), Ding Gao (baritone), Marietta Simpson (contralto), John Aler (tenor), Maria Kliegel (cello), Ilya Kaler (violin), Stefan Veselka (piano), Christian Kohn (piano), Silke-Thora Matthies (piano),...
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