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Handel: Acis and Galatea RecommendedNorma Burrowes (Galatea), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Acis), Martyn Hill (Damon), Willard White (Polyphemus) & Paul Elliot (Corydon)
The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
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Gramophone Awards, 1978, Winner - Early Music
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Davies, Peter Maxwell: Taverner
Martyn Hill (Taverner), David Wilson-Johnson (Jester), Stephen Richardson (Henry VIII), Fiona Kimm (Virgin Mary), Michael Chance (Priest/God), Quentin Hayes (White Abbot) & Peter Sidhom (Richard Taverner)
Fretwork, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta Voices, His Majestys Sagbutts...
The opera is full… bitterly ironic juxtapositions, such as the 'holy' chanting from monks heard against the cynical Realpolitik of the negotiations between King and the Cardinal. Making the... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Opera
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Opera, April 2010, Recording of the Month
2 CDs
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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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Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
RecommendedGalina Vishnevskaya (Katerina), Nicolai Gedda (Sergey), Dimiter Petkov (Boris), Werner Krenn (Zinovi), Robert Tear (Shabby Peasant), Taru Valjakka (Aksinya), Birgit Finnilä (Sonyetka)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Mstislav Rostropovich
the inimitable Galina Vishnevskaya makes the title role her own, ably assisted by Nicolai Gedda as her illicit lover Sergei. — More…
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also Recommended
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Handel: Acis and Galatea
RecommendedNorma Burrowes (Galatea), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Acis), Martyn Hill (Damon), Willard White (Polyphemus)
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Gardiner's 1978 disc with his newly founded English Baroque Soloists shows few signs of its age. Rolfe Johnson's mellifluous Acis is still the best on disc, although White is too genteel as... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1978, Winner - Early Music
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Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex & Les Noces
Edward Fox, Jennifer Lane, David Wilson-Johnson, Andrew Greenan, Joseph Cornwell, Alison Wells (soprano), Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Martyn Hill (tenor), Alan Ewing (bass)
The Simon Joly Male Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, International Piano Quartet, Tristan Fry Percussion Ensemble, Simon...
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Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629
(complete opera)
Eiddwen Harrhy, Jennifer Smith, Judith Nelson, Elisabeth Priday, Timothy Penrose, Wynford Evans, Martyn Hill, Stephen Varcoe, Ashley Stafford
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner
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Britten: Choral Dances from Gloriana, Op. 53, etc.
Shirley Minty (mezzo Soprano, Martyn Hill (tenor), Thelma Owen (harp), Judith Pearce (flute)
English Choral Music, Holst Singers, Hilary Davan Wetton
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Handel Edition Volume 3 - Tamerlano, L'Allegro ed il Penseroso, etc.
RecommendedDerek Lee Ragin (Tamerlano), Nigel Robson (Bajazet), Nancy Argenta (Asteria), Michael Chance (Andronico), Jane Findlay (Irene), René Schirrer (Leone)
English Baroque Soloists & Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner
Taking Milton as his starting point, Handel illustrated in music the contrasts of mood and character between the cheerful and the thoughtful. Then, prompted by his librettist, Charles Jennens,... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1980, Winner - Choral
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A Portrait of Mozart
Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Raúl Giménez (tenor), Oscar Shumsky (violin), Anthony Halstead (natural horn)
The Hanover Band, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Roy Goodman
6 CDs
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