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Elementia (The Elements) - Choral works by Pizzetti, Schoenberg, Barber, Gorecki, Tippett, Webern, Stravinsky et al. / The Esoterics

2 CD / Terpsichore Records / 2012-08-28

Works: David Asplin: In nature's charm, for choir; Donald Skirvin: New world, for choir; Wheel of dreams, for choir; The delight song of Tsoai-talee, for choir; Cedar smoke and snowflake, for choir; Ildebra...
Performers: Aas, Erin; Anderson, Pam; Bailey, Becky; Brittsan, Jason; Burness, Meredith; Carroll, Skylar; Federici, Cathy; Flexner, Lisa; Galloway, Lane; Hitt, Tom; Jones, Scott; Maguire, Sean; O'Donoghue, Liz; ...
Conductors: Banks, Eric
Ensemble: The Esoterics

ELEMENTIA is a double CD set that encompasses some of the best works from The Esoterics' Season 2000 and features world premiere recordings of works...continue...

Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage / Davis, Herincx, et al

2 CD / Lyrita / 2007-03-13

Works: Michael Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage, opera in 3 acts
Performers: Bainbridge, Elisabeth; Burrows, Stuart; Carlyle, Joan; Daniels, Andrew; Dean, Stafford; Harwood, Elizabeth [Soprano Vocals]; Herincx, Raimund; Remedios, Alberto; Whelan, David
Conductors: Davis, Colin
Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Chorus

Long patronized by the music establishment as an amateur because of his late start in music study, Michael Tippett (1905-1998) was to become in later...continue...

Tippett - Choral Images / Cleobury, BBC Singers

1 CD / Signum UK / 2007-03-06

Works: Michael Tippett: Dance, Clarion Air, madrigal for chorus; Plebs angelica, motet for double chorus; The Weeping Babe, motet for soprano & chorus; Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis (Evening Canticles), for ch...
Performers: Adams-Barbaro, Jennifer; Charlesworth, Stephen; Farrington, Iain; Feaviour, Margaret; Fox, Jacqueline; Johnston, Robert; MacIntyre, Stuart; Menna, Siân; Murgatroyd, Andrew
Conductors: Cleobury, Stephen
Ensemble: BBC Singers

When Sir Michael Tippett first worked with the BBC Singers in 1944, the experience was such that he recalled nearly 50 years later that "It...continue...

Tippett: Midsummer Marriage / Pritchard, Sutherland, Lewis

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2006-08-08

Works: Michael Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage, opera in 3 acts
Performers: Coates, Edith; Kraus, Otakar; Lanigan, John; Leigh, Adele; Lewis, Richard [Tenor Vocal]; Sinclair, Monica; Sutherland, Joan, Dame
Conductors: Pritchard, John
Ensemble: Royal Opera House Covent Garden Chorus

Michael Tippet (1905-1998) became one of the most influential and respected British composers with several major operas to his credit, of which 'The Midsummer Marriage'...continue...

American Songfest

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2003-03-11

Works: Leonard Bernstein: Songfest, song cycle for 6 singers & orchestra or piano; Candide; Charles Ives: Hymn, for chorus "Op. 2, no 1", S. 168 (K. 5C1) (incomplete); Peaks, song for voice & piano, S. 325 ...
Performers: Boone, Christopher; Booth, Debra; Grant, Devon; Maliakel, Michael; Potulov, George; Schucker, John Charles; Suhr, Francois; Worf, Colin

Tippett: Midsummer Marriage / Joan Sutherland, et al

2 CD / Gala / 2001-05-09

Works: Michael Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage, opera in 3 acts
Performers: Coates, Edith; Kraus, Otakar; Lanigan, John; Leigh, Adele; Lewis, Richard [Tenor Vocal]; Sinclair, Monica; Sutherland, Joan, Dame
Conductors: Pritchard, John

Tippett: King Priam / Atherton, London Sinfonietta

2 CD / Chandos Records / 1995-11-21

Works: Michael Tippett: King Priam, opera in 3 acts
Performers: Allen, Thomas; Bailey, Norman; Bowen, Kenneth; Hall, Peter; Harper, Heather; Hirst, Linda; Langridge, Philip; Minton, Yvonne [Soprano Vocals]; Murray, Ann; Palmer, Felicity; Tear, Robert; Walker, Tim...
Conductors: Atherton, David
Ensemble: London Sinfonietta Chorus

"The performance and the clean, transparent recording are in short fully worthy of this wonderful opera...a remarkably fine performance." -Grammophone "...I could use the space...continue...