Susan Bickley
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Poulenc: The Complete Songs
Graham Johnson (piano), Ailish Tynan (soprano), Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Geraldine McGreevy (soprano), Pierre Bernac (narrator), Ben Johnson (tenor), Sarah Fox (soprano), Christopher Maltman (baritone), Ivan Ludlow (baritone), Brandon Velarde (baritone), Robin Tritschler (tenor), Robin Tritschler...
The greatest hero of the set remains Graham Johnson himself. As well as writing the booklet notes and organising the whole adventure, Johnson proves himself to be the most sensitive and accomplished... — More…
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From a city window: Songs by Hubert Parry
Ailish Tynan (soprano), Susan Bickley (mezzo), William Dazeley (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano)
Superb singing combines with Iain Burnside's eloquent handling of Parry's piano textures. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2013, Editor's Choice
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Adès: America A Prophecy
RecommendedSongs & Choral Works
Robin Blaze, Christopher Maltman & Susan Bickley
Polyphony & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Layton & Thomas Ades
Adès’s take on a Madness song about a stressed businessman is a hoot. Although Adès apparently did it from memory, it’s fairly accurate, right down to the piano’s cluster chords. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2004, Winner - Contemporary
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Thomas Adès - America
RecommendedSusan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Claron McFadden (soprano), Robin Blaze (countertenor), Huw Watkins )piano), Christopher Maltman (baritone)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Thomas Adès
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Gramophone Awards, 2004, Winner - Contemporary
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Songs by Reynaldo Hahn
This two-CD set is the most representative recording of Hahn's songs ever made. It includes the complete Etudes Latines and Rondels (both with choir) as well as many of his most familiar songs.
Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Susan Bickley (mezzo soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
The London Schubert Chorale, Stephen Layton
The two cycles, Douze rondels and Etudes latines, are linked by a common fascination with the past.
The Douze rondels were composed to poems in a medieval metre, which allowed Hahn to try his... — More…2 CDs
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Signum Anniversary Series: Art Song Collection
Iain Burnside, Malcolm Martineau, John Mark Ainsley, Mark Padmore, Ailish Tynan, Felicity Lott, Sarah Connolly & Jonathan Lemalu
this generous culling of 25 songs from 20 albums released in the past 15 years has a delectable cast of British and Irish voices in songs from Beethoven to Weir. — More…
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The English Song Series Volume 19 - Ivor Gurney Songs
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) & Iain Burnside (piano)
…Susan Bickley shares with Gurney a direct and instinctive response to the inflections, metres and emotional colours of the English language. — More…
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[Dove’s music] takes Debussy as its starting point, before heading into more contemporary musical worlds. And it’s difficult to imagine it much better performed than here. Essentially the emotional... — More…
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Tonight - Hits from the Musicals
José Carreras (Tenor), Barbara Hendricks (Soprano), Katia Labèque (Piano), Marielle Labèque (Piano), Simon Estes (Bass), Sylvia McNair (Soprano), André Previn (Piano), David Finck (Double Bass), Kiri Te Kanawa (Soprano), Judith Rees (Vocalist), Susan Bickley (Vocalist), Meriel Dickinson (Contralto),...
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Thomas Adès: Anthology
Thomas Adès (piano), Susan Bickley (mezzo), Anthony Marwood (violin)
Endellion String Quartet, Arditti Quartet, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, London Sinfonietta, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Markus Stenz
This two-disc summary of Adès's career avoids some of the more obvious works – nothing from The Tempest, for instance – but manages to include both his youngest work and some recent, hitherto... — More…
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