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Rosa Feola, Iain Burnside – Musica e poesia (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:36 minutes | 916 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Opus Arte
Young soprano Rosa Feola captured international attention as a treble prize-winner at the Plácido Domingo World Opera Competition (2010). Attributed ‘blazing star potential’ for her sensitive phrasing and imaginative colouring of words (Telegraph), she brings her feel for text to this celebration of music and Italian poetry, in which master orchestrator Respighi paints Tuscan folk scenes and woodland deities and the virtuoso Liszt is inspired by Petrarch. Presenting the major singers of today and the stars of tomorrow, the Rosenblatt Recitals are London’s only world-class season of opera recitals.
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Roderick Williams & Iain Burnside – Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, Op. 25, D. 795 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:02 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Challenge Classics
In this, the first of a series of three recordings of Schubert’s great song cycles for Chandos, Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside bring their formidable talents to bear on one of the pinnacles of classical lieder. In November 2015, Roderick Williams decided to immerse himself in an intensive three-year period of studying and performing the three song cycles by Schubert, following an invitation from the Wigmore Hall. The process has involved not just performances in concert around the globe, but open rehearsals, master-classes, workshops, and radio broadcasts. Roderick Williams has documented all of these experiences in great detail in his fascinating “Schubert Cycle Project” blog. He writes: ‘Somewhere along the way I came to a decision; that my eventual performances at the Wigmore would not be the ultimate goal of my study; rather, the study itself, the act of preparation would be my focus. It is possible that other singers might find the process interesting, even if only to share some of the grind that is most often done alone; it is also possible that others might be intrigued, especially audiences, perhaps even (fellow) students.’
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Lucy Crowe, Claire Barnett-Jones, Marcus Farnsworth, Iain Burnside, Catrin Finch, Timothy Ridout – The Jade Mountain – Songs by Edmund Rubbra (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:47 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos
Der englische Spätromantiker Edmund Rubbra ist vor allem für sein symphonisches Werk bekannt, doch er komponierte auch eine ganze Reihe von Vokalwerken und schuf während seines gesamten kompositorischen Wirkens Lieder. Diese zeichnen sich durch ihre abwechslungsreiche Begleitung aus (weniger als die Hälfte sind für Klavier gesetzt, der Rest für Harfe, Streichquartett, Streichorchester oder ganzes Orchester). Diese CD enthält alle seine veröffentlichten Lieder mit Klavier- und Harfenbegleitung und umfasst die ersten und letzten Lieder des Komponisten.
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Andrew Watts & Iain Burnside – A Countertenor Songbook (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:13:53 minutes | 965 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © NMC Recordings
This album brings together the works of seven very different composers in a single songbook. Most of the pieces were written specially for countertenor Andrew Watts, who has championed contemporary music for the thirty years he has been singing professionally. He has established a reputation for being one of the foremost operatic countertenors of his generation and has appeared on opera and concert platforms throughout the world.
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Alex Woolf, Nicky Spence, Iain Burnside, Philip Higham, Anthony Gray – Alex Woolf: Requiem (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:44 minutes | 956 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delphian Records
A major statement by a composer still in his mid-twenties, Alex Woolfs Requiem, composed in 2018, combines powerful expressive immediacy with an impressive ability to synthesize the diverse traditions that have grown up around the requiem genre in the past two hundred years, as it has moved from the church into the concert hall. As in Brittens War Requiem, the traditional Latin texts are brought into dialogue with modern-day poetry here, three poems by the Welsh writer Gillian Clarke (who was National Poet of Wales from 2008 to 2016). Initially these exist in the separate sound-world of a solo tenor and piano, with a solo cello creating the bridge to the liturgical sphere of choir and organ. Yet ultimately, Clarkes very human concerns focus and inflect Woolfs approach to the religious texts, confirming the works trajectory from despair into consolation. Nicky Spence, fresh from his triumph at the 2020 BBC Music Magazine Awards, is the solo tenor, joined by Delphian artists Iain Burnside and Philip Higham; and Woolf conducts his own choir Vox Luna in this strikingly personal work.
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