Ashley Riches – The Harmonious Echo: Songs by Sir Arthur Sullivan (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ashley Riches – The Harmonious Echo: Songs by Sir Arthur Sullivan (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:33:33 minutes | 1,51 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos

Although most widely remembered for his operettas in partnership with W.S. Gilbert, Sir Arthur Sullivan was the most famous of all British composers of the nineteenth century. He was revered as a composer of oratorios, and was urged by Queen Victoria to compose a grand opera. The result, Ivanhoe, achieved 155 consecutive performances (in an opera house especially built for it). Achieving equal success in his lifetime, his substantial legacy of songs fell into neglect in the twentieth century, but as this album demonstrates Sullivans endlessly fertile melodic gifts withstand comparison with those of any other song composer. David Owen Norris and his quartet of outstanding young British singers deliver this fascinating programme with terrific style and panache.

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Ashley Riches – A Musical Zoo (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ashley Riches – A Musical Zoo (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:13 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos

“A Musical Zoo” with Ashley Riches and Joseph Middleton is a veritable tour de force, featuring compositions spanning nearly 160 years, from Schubert’s The Trout to Shostakovich’s Once there lived a cockroach, and four languages (German, French, Russian, and English).

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