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Lucy Crowe, Roderick Williams, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir, Mark Elder – James MacMilllan Christmas Oratorio (Live) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:34:11 minutes | 1,53 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © London Philharmonic Orchestra
This recording captures the UK premiere performance of James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, performed and recorded in the presence of the composer. The world premiere of the work was given by the Dutch Radio Philharmonic and Choir in Amsterdam in January 2021. The LPO was due to give the world premiere of the work however, due to the COVID 19 pandemic, the performance came on December 4 2021, a year later than planned.
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Thomas Allen, Stephen Higgins & Lucy Crowe – September Songs (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:31 minutes | 925 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Champs Hill Records
Sir Thomas Allen is an established star of great opera house around the world with a huge repertoire – with fifty roles at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden alone – who has now recorded something comp letely different for Champs Hill Records. September Songs is a chance to explore songs he grew up with, loved then and loves still, but repertoire that’s not usually associated with him, the golden age of Broadway and Hollywood with its melodic beauty, lyrical inventiveness and emotional directness. Allen has always hankered to ‘give it a go’ and to explore songs by the likes of George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern and Kurt Weill.
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Mary Bevan, Lucy Crowe & Bridget Cunningham – Handel’s Queens (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:07:53 minutes | 2,34 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records
“Handel’s Queens” features some of the most exquisite pieces of music written by Georg Friedrich Handel and his contemporaries for the two finest singers of the eighteenth century, Faustina Bordoni and Francesca Cuzzoni. Often wrongfully framed as rivals, these dazzling new recordings with Mary Bevan and Lucy Crowe reveal the distinctive yet versatile talent of the Italian vocalists. Conductor Bridget Cunningham continues her research and created “Handel’s Queens” and directs London Early Opera from the harpsichord.
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Lucy Crowe, Tim Mead, La Nuova Musica and David Bates – Pergolesi: Stabat Mater – Bach: Cantatas BWV 54, 170 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:14 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
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Handel wrote little for his native tongue, but what he did demonstrates a particular level of contemplative piety while still employing the familiar techniques of Italian opera. Praise for the beauty of nature and eternal life are the subjects of the sacred poems by his contemporary Barthold Heinrich Brockes which Handel set to music in his ‘Nine German Arias’. Each aria celebrates an aspect of nature, from the beauty of a flaming rose to the sweetness of silence, with extraordinary tenderness and sincerity. In these nine pieces for soprano and a small group of instruments, to be chosen at will, Handel drew often on music from his own operas, albeit with the voice part in the German arias adapted to be less virtuosic and more deeply expressive. The musical relationships with Handel s opera arias are evident in the ingenuity of his characterisation and the expressive, articulate melodies with which the soprano and the violin obbligato create their vivid images. The young German soprano Marie Friederike Schöder is accompanied in her beautiful interpretation of the arias by the specialist ensemble Batzdorfer Hofkapelle.
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Lucy Crowe, Elizabeth Watts, La Nuova Musica & David Bates – Lucy Crowe, Elizabeth Watts, La Nuova Musica & David Bates (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:36 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
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Music for Holy Week. François Couperin’s ‘Leçons de Ténèbres’ (c. 1713-17), a setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, fused devotional expression with a dramatic performing style embodied here by sopranos Lucy Crowe and Elizabeth Watts. Two Trio Sonatas and a ‘Stabat Mater’ by Sébastien de Brossard round out this luminous programme.
La Nuova Musica was founded by its artistic director David Bates in 2007 whilst in residency at Snape Maltings and was hailed by BBC Radio 3 as “one of the most exciting consorts in the early music field”. They are regular contributors at Aldeburgh Music, St John’s Smith Square, London Handel Festival, Wigmore Hall and Spitalfields Music. Highlights of 2015 were a performance of ‘Acis and Galatea’ at SJSS which received a 5* review in The Times, describing it as “a reading that sparkled from the giddy overture to the consoling final chorus” followed by a concert performance of Cesti’s ‘Orontea’, where “Bates’ conducting had superb poise, and the cast was impeccable, with not a weak link anywhere” (The Guardian).
In 2016 LNM will also record Pergolesi’s ‘Stabat Mater’ and Bach Cantatas with Lucy Crowe and Tim Mead. Concert performance highlights for 2016 include Handel’s ‘Berenice’ at the Göttingen Internationale Händel Festspiele; their debut at the Salzburg Festival with Bejun Mehta; and an exciting collaboration with American choreographer Zack Winokur on Purcell’s ‘Dido and Aeneas’ at the Brighton International Festival, with Dame Ann Murray singing the title role.
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Lucy Crowe, Andrew Staples, Christopher Purves – Handel: Messiah (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:15:25 minutes | 2,41 GB | Genre: Classical
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A spectacular version on period instruments in historically informed style, Emmanuelle Haïm’s rendition of George Frideric Handel’s Messiah with Le Concert d’Astrée was among the finest to appear in 2014. Vigorous in rhythm and brisk in tempo, the performance is extremely lively and exciting, without a trace of traditional religiosity or stodginess, and the drama inherent in Handel’s music is brilliantly realized in the energetic singing and playing. Featuring soprano Lucy Crowe, countertenor Andrew Staples, tenor Tim Mead, and bass Christopher Purves in a well-balanced quartet, and a chamber choir and orchestra that are as limber as they are lean, the oratorio moves at a rapid clip and takes little time to brood. Even the customarily slow numbers move along at a comfortable walking pace, and Haïm ensures that they maintain interest through transparent textures, fresh ornamentation, and forward momentum. This interpretation may be a little too exciting for listeners who like their Messiah reflective and reverent, but fans of the streamlined counterpoint and scintillating timbres of Baroque performance practice will enjoy the vitality and bright sonorities of this recording. Highly recommended, whether on CD, SACD, or digital download.
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Lucy Crowe and Anna Tilbrook – Longing. Lieder by Strauss, Berg, Schoenberg (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:03 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Linn Records
Lucy Crowe makes her Linn recital debut with a programme of lieder by Berg, Richard Strauss and Schoenberg, which perfectly highlights why she is known as one of the leading lyric sopranos of her generation. Lucy is joined by pianist Anna Tilbrook, with whom she has forged a near symbiotic connection over a twenty-year professional partnership, comprising numerous performances at Wigmore and Queen Elizabeth Halls, London, and Carnegie Hall, New York. The programme encompasses both the beginning and end of Strauss’s prodigious songwriting career with five songs from his first published set Acht Gedichte aus Letzte Bl”atter plus his posthumously published swansong of sublime beauty, Vier letzte Lieder. Berg’s Sieben fruhe Lieder are landmark compositions which invoke the late Romantic world of Strauss; they sit alongside Vier Lieder by Berg’s mentor Schoenberg, whose post-Wagnerian chromaticism points to the composer’s later style. Following their Wigmore Hall performance in June 2020 The Guardian stated: “Berg’s Seven Early Songs suits Crowe uncommonly well, with her exquisite tone, fastidious sense of line, and understated but telling way with words’e.
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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
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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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The English Concert, Harry Bicket, Lucy Crowe, Iestyn Davies, Joshua Ellicott, Brandon Cedel, Jess Dandy – Handel: Rodelinda (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 03:20:04 minutes | 7,43 GBGenre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Linn Records
Handel’s 1725 hit opera Rodelinda was written for the greatest voices of its day and is performed here by some of today’s finest, as The English Concert and artistic director Harry Bicket’s acclaimed concert cycle of Handel operas appears for the first time on Linn.
Lucy Crowe and Iestyn Davies are the devoted partners Rodelinda and Bertarido, heading a cast packed with exactly the sort of vocal star-power Handel would have expected, including Joshua Ellicott, Tim Mead, Brandon Cedel and Jess Dandy. Both Davies and Crowe have won acclaim for their performances in these roles: BBC Music Magazine wrote, ‘Iestyn Davies stole the show with aria after aria of heavenly purity and ardour’, whilst BachTrack commented, ‘Lucy Crowe gave a brilliant performance … Her singing, firmly centred, agile and sparking with temperament, was a triumph.’
The English Concert’s reputation for combining urgency, passion and fire with precision, delicacy and beauty will ensure their forthcoming series of Handel operas will become an essential part of Linn’s catalogue. The English Concert will be releasing Handel’s La resurrezione in 2021.
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