Tippett - The Midsummer Marriage | LPO LPO0124

Tippett - The Midsummer Marriage

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Label: LPO

Cat No: LPO0124

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 23rd September 2022

Contents

Artists

Robert Murray (tenor)
Rachel Nicholls (soprano)
Ashley Riches (bass-baritone)
Jennifer France (soprano)
Toby Spence (tenor)
Claire Barnett-Jones (mezzo-soprano)
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
Joshua Bloom (bass)
John Findon (tenor)
Paul Sheehan (bass-baritone)
Robert Winslade Anderson (bass)
Sophie Goldrick (mezzo-soprano)
London Philharmonic Choir
English National Opera Chorus
London Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Edward Gardner

Works

Tippett, Michael

The Midsummer Marriage

Artists

Robert Murray (tenor)
Rachel Nicholls (soprano)
Ashley Riches (bass-baritone)
Jennifer France (soprano)
Toby Spence (tenor)
Claire Barnett-Jones (mezzo-soprano)
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
Joshua Bloom (bass)
John Findon (tenor)
Paul Sheehan (bass-baritone)
Robert Winslade Anderson (bass)
Sophie Goldrick (mezzo-soprano)
London Philharmonic Choir
English National Opera Chorus
London Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Edward Gardner

About

Cast:
- Mark: Robert Murray (tenor)
- Jenifer: Rachel Nicholls (soprano)
- King Fisher: Ashley Riches (bass-baritone)
- Bella: Jennifer France (soprano)
- Jack: Toby Spence (tenor)
- Sosostris: Claire Barnett-Jones (mezzo-soprano)
- She-Ancient: Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
- He-Ancient: Joshua Bloom (bass)
- Dancing Man: John Findon (tenor)
- Half-Tipsy Man: Paul Sheehan (bass-baritone)
- A Man: Robert Winslade Anderson (bass)
- A Girl: Sophie Goldrick (mezzo-soprano)

Recorded live by BBC Radio 3 at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, London, on 25 September 2021

Reviews

It is quite something to begin your principal conductorship of a major London orchestra with a work that is (a) an opera, and (b) a controversial one from the 1950s in English that’s not even in the regular repertoire. ... This new performance is astutely cast from a cream of young British talent. One of its brightest lights, Rachel Nicholls’s Jenifer, is supreme in those testing moments that sometimes seem to require a coloratura Brünnhilde... To assemble all this for a concert, with its inevitable limited rehearsal schedule compared to the stage, is not the least of Edward Gardner’s fluent achievements here. That special fire, and its cunningly chosen cast, sets this new release above the hard-worked Colin Davis set...  Mike Ashman
Gramophone Awards 2022
Gramophone Editor's Choice

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