Charles, Ernest

Echoes of Nightingales / Christine Brewer, Roger Vignoles, piano

1 CD / Hyperion / 2011-03-08

Works: Sidney Homer: Sing to me, sing, Op 28; Edwin McArthur: Night, for voice & piano; A. Walter Kramer: Now like a lantern, for voice & piano; Mildred Lund Tyson: Sea Moods, for voice & piano; Landon Rona...
Performers: Brewer, Christine; Vignoles, Roger [Piano]

This delightful disc from Christine Brewer, one of the most admired sopranos of today, pays homage to both an important musical tradition and four great...continue...
Recording information: All Saints, Durham Road, East Finchley, London (12/14/2009-12/16/2009)....continue...

Classic Album Collection

3 CD / HBDirect Import / 2010-11-23

Works: Leroy Robertson: The Lord's Prayer for chorus; Anonymous: Come, Come, Ye Saints, Mormon hymn; Johannes Brahms: Deutsche Requiem; James McGranahan: Oh, My Father; James McIntyre: How Great the Wisdom ...
Performers: Asper, Frank W.; Schreiner, Alexander
Conductors: Ormandy, Eugene; Cornwall, J. Spencer; Condie, Richard P.

Hommage à Bidu Sayao

1 CD / Cembal d'amour / 2009-10-03

Works: Spoken Word: Conductor Donald Voorhees introduces Bidú Sayao; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Gioachino Rossini: Guglielmo Tell; Giacomo Pucc...
Performers: Sayao, Bidu [Soprano Vocals]; Voorhees, Donald
Conductors: Voorhees, Donald; Merola, Gaetano; Stopak, Joseph; Breisach, Paul; Barlow, Howard

Considered by many music and opera lovers as one of the greatest lyric sopranos of all times, Bidu Sayao had a legendary career which was...continue...

Songs My Mother Told Me

1 CD / EtCetera Records / 2009-09-01

Works: Ernest Charles: When I have sung my songs; Clouds, for voice & piano; Youth, for voice & piano; Charles Gilbert Spross: Let All My Life Be Music; Richard Hageman: Do not go, my love; Music I Heard wi...
Performers: Alexander, Roberta [Soprano Vocals]; Masuda, Brian

Serenade / Timothy Seelig, Turtle Creek Chorale

1 CD / Reference Recordings / 2007-05-08

Works: Eric Helmuth: Everyone Sang, for choir; How sweet the moonlight, for choir; Karl Jenkins: Adiemus, for female voices & orchestra; Stephen Paulus: Loving Kindness, for chorus; Morten Lauridsen: Les ch...
Performers: Demer, Thomas; Fratena, Roger; Hannigan, Erin; Nostbakken, Kari; Pettys, Delmar; Spencer, Antoine; Stahler, Dawn; Steffens, Peter; Swanson, Kristen
Conductors: Seelig, Timothy

This word brings to mind the image of a young swain, standing at nighttime below his true love's window passionately wooing his beloved with romantic...continue...

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Kirsten Flagstad Vol 2

1 CD / Preiser / 2001-02-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur ("Himmel ruhmen des ewigen Ehre"), song for voice & piano, Op. 48/4; Ich liebe dich, WoO 123; Franz Schubert: Der Jüngling an der Quelle, D 30...

Prima Voce - Rosa Ponselle Vol 2

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1997-11-01

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly; Tosca; Manon Lescaut; Giuseppe Verdi: La forza del destino; Il Trovatore; Aida, opera; Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; Paolo Tos...
Performers: Baker, Elsie; Martinelli, Giovanni; Ponselle, Rosa; Romani, Romano
Conductors: Romani, Romano; Bourdon, Rosario

Sure on This Shining Night / Robert White, Samuel Sanders

1 CD / Hyperion / 1997-04-01

Works: Theodore Chanler: The Children, song for voice & piano (from The Children); These, My Ophelia, for voice & piano; Amy Beach: Browning Songs (3), Op. 44; George Whitefield Chadwick: When stars are in...
Performers: Agee, James; Feeney, Leonard; Hammerstein, Oscar II; Harbach, Otto; Hoffman, William M.; Sanders, Samuel [Piano]; White, Robert

'This is a very charming record' (Gramophone)

'I felt as if I was discovering these songs for the first time' (Soundscapes, Australia)

'A delightful, imaginatively...continue...

Prima Voce - John Charles Thomas

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Arthur Sullivan: HMS Pinafore; Lily Strickland: My Lindy Lou; Albert Hay Malotte: Sing a song of sixpence; The Lord's Prayer; Ernest Charles: The Green-Eyed Dragon; Oscar Rasbach: Trees; May Foster: ...
Performers: Hodges, Lester; Hollister, Carroll; Thomas, John Charles [voice]
Conductors: O'Connell, Charles; Shilkret, Nathaniel; Tours, Frank Edward
Ensemble: Orchestra; RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra

Prima Voce - Flagstad in Song

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1996-11-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Songs (6) for voice & piano, Op. 48; Zärtliche Liebe, song for voice & piano, WoO 123; Richard Strauss: Lieder (6), Op. 17; Lieder (8), Op. 10; Lieder (4), Op. 27; Eyvind A...
Performers: Flagstad, Kirsten; McArthur, Edwin

"...There's nothing on this disc that isn't an object lesson in the technique of singing, and in the art of singing as communication...Cool purity and...continue...

Songs We Forgot to Remember / John Aler, Grant Gershon

1 CD / Delos / 1996-01-01

Works: Charles Marshall: I hear you calling me; Idabelle Firestone: If I could tell you; Oscar Rasbach: Trees; Wilfred Sanderson: Until; Edward Cockrane Purcell: Passing by; Ernest Charles: The Green-Eyed D...
Performers: Aler, John; Gershon, Grant