Welsby, Norman

Handel: Admetus, King of Thessaly / Lewis, Lehane, Baker

3 CD / Ponto Recordings / 2005-02-07

Works: George Frederick Handel: Admeto, Rè di Tessaglia, HWV 22; Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 35, "Geist und Seele wird verwirret" BWV 35
Performers: Armstrong, Sheila; Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo Soprano]; Kitchiner, John; Lehane, Maureen; Lensky, Margaret; Temperley, Jean; Welsby, Norman
Conductors: Lewis, Anthony; Britten, Benjamin
Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra; The Baroque Opera Orchestra

Opera in English - Wagner: The Ring Cycle / Goodall, et al

16 CD / Chandos Records / 2001-07-24

Works: Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold; Die Walküre; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung
Performers: Attfield, Helen; Bailey, Norman; Belcourt, Emile; Clarke, Katie; Collins, Anne; Connell, Elizabeth; Conoley, Anne; Curphey, Margaret; Dempsey, Gregory; Evans, Anne; Ferguson, Robert; Grant, Clifford;...
Conductors: Goodall, Reginald
Ensemble: English National Opera Movement Group; English National Opera Orchestra; Sadler's Wells Opera Orchestra

The Nibelung's Ring can be enjoyed on many levels: as a fairy story, political allegory or philosophical tract, for example. In essence, it deals with...continue...

Opera in English - Wagner: Twilight of the Gods / Goodall

5 CD / Chandos Records / 2001-07-24

Works: Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Performers: Collins, Anne; Curphey, Margaret; Evans, Anne; Hammond-Stroud, Derek; Haugland, Aage; Hunter, Rita; Knight, Gillian; Masterson, Valerie; Pring, Katherine; Remedios, Alberto; Squires, Shilagh; Welsby,...
Conductors: Goodall, Reginald
Ensemble: English National Opera Orchestra

"The merits of Goodall's 'Ring' have been well rehearsed. Nowhere is his grasp of the musical architecture surer than in the vast spans of '...continue...

Opera in English - Wagner: Das Rheingold / Goodall, et al

3 CD / Chandos Records / 2001-05-22

Works: Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold
Performers: Bailey, Norman; Belcourt, Emile; Dempsey, Gregory; Ferguson, Robert; Grant, Clifford; Hammond-Stroud, Derek; Lloyd, Robert [Bass Voice]; Masterson, Valerie; McDonall, Lois; Pring, Katherine; Squires,...
Conductors: Goodall, Reginald
Ensemble: English National Opera Movement Group

"The singers, though not as a whole in the class of Bohm's Bayreuth All-Stars, are certainly capable, and there is no conspicuous weakness in the...continue...