Bridge, Frank > Mezzo Soprano

Frank Bridge: Orchestral Works - The Collector's Edition / Connolly, Langridge, Gerhardt, Hickox

6 CD / Chandos Records / 2012-07-31

Works: Frank Bridge: Enter Spring, rhapsody for orchestra, H. 174; Isabella, symphonic poem for orchestra, H. 78; Poems after Richard Jefferies, for orchestra, H. 118; Mid of the Night, symphonic poem for ...
Performers: Connolly, Sarah; Connolly, Sarah [Mezzo-Soprano (Vocal)]; Gerhardt, Alban [Cello]; Langridge, Philip; Shelley, Howard; Williams, Roderick [Bass-Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Hickox, Richard
Ensemble: ; BBC National Orchestra of Wales

The complete orchestral works by Frank Bridge are here released in an attractive six-disc box for the first time, as part of the new Hickox...continue...
Recording information: Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, England....continue...

Hamlet Echoes: Songs by Loeffler, Liszt, Brahms, et al. / Stella Doufexis, mezzo soprano

1 CD / CAvi Music / 2011-11-08

Works: Charles Martin Loeffler: La chanson des Ingénues (The Song of the Ingenues), for voice, viola & piano; Harmonie du soir (Evening Harmony), for voice, viola & piano; Quatre poèmes, for vioce...
Performers: Doufexis, Stella; Heide, Daniel [Piano]; Sachse, Pauline [Viola]

These recordings, all based on Shakespeare's Hamlet, feature unusual scoring with mezzo-soprano, viola, and piano. German-Greek singer Stella Doufexis studied at the Hochschule der Künste...continue...
Recording information: Deutschlandradio Kultur Produktionsstätte Gärtnerstraáe (04/2011)....continue...