Enrique Granados - Goyescas (Opera in three tableaux)

Enrique GRANADOS (1867-1916)

Goyescas – Opera in Three Tableaux (1915)

First performance on January 28, 1916 at the Metropolitan Opera

Nancy Fabiola Herrera (soprano)

Lidia Vinyes Curtis (mezzo soprano) 

Gustavo Peña (tenor)

José Antonio López (baritone)

BBC Singers

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Josep Pons

rec. live, Barbican, London, January 2018

Ethel Smyth - Der Wald (Opera in One Act)

Ethel SMYTH (1858-1944)

Der Wald (1899-1901)

Natalya Romaniw (soprano) – Röschen

Claire Barnett-Jones (mezzo-soprano) – Iolanthe

Robert Murray (tenor) – Heinrich

Andrew Shore (baritone) – A Pedlar

Morgan Pearse (baritone) – Count Rudolf   

Matthew Brook (bass) – Peter

Rebecca Lea (soprano) – A Youth

Andrew Rupp (baritone) – First Huntsman

BBC Singers

BBC Symphony Orchestra

John Andrews

rec. 2023, Studio 1, Maida Vale Studios, London

Michael Tippett - New Year (Opera in Three Acts)

Michael TIPPETT (1905-1998)

New Year

Opera in Three acts (1989)

Libretto by the composer

Rhian Lois, Jo Ann (Soprano)

Ross Ramgobin, Donny (Baritone)

Susan Bickley, Nan (Mezzo soprano)

Roland Wood, Merlin (Baritone)

Robert Murray, Pelegrin (Tenor)

Rachel Nicholls, Regan (Soprano)

Alan Oke, Presenter (Tenor)

BBC Singers

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins

rec. 2024, City Halls, Glasgow, UK

Arnold Schoenberg - Chorus Music; A Survivor from Warsaw

Arnold SCHONBERG (1874 -1971)

Chorus Music with "A Survivor From Warsaw"

Friede auf Erden, Op.13

Kol Nidre, Op.39

Drei Volkslieder,Op.49

Zwei Kanons nach Goethe

Drei deutsche Volkslieder

Vier Stucke, Op.27

Drei Satiren, Op.28

Sechs Stucke, Op.35

Dremial tousend Jahre, Op.50A

Psalm 130, Op.50B

Modern Psalm No.1, Op.50C

A Survivor from Warsaw, Op.46 

John Shirley-Quirk (Narrator) 

Günther Reich (Narrator)

BBC Singers  

BBC Chorus & Symphony Orchestra 

Pierre Boulez

Tracks 1-1, 2-1 to 2-7, 2-14 and 2-15 recorded at BBC Maida Vale Studios, 8 September 1982.

Tracks 1-2, 2-8 to 2-13 and 2-16 recorded at BBC Maida Vale Studios, 19 February 1984.

Tracks 1-3 to 1-10 recorded at EMI Studios, London, 26 October 1986.

Track 2-17 recorded at EMI Studios, London, 23 September 1976.

Michael Tippett - Choral Images

Michael TIPPETT (1905-1998)

Choral images

The Windhover

Plebs Angleica

The Weeping Babe

Magnificat & Nunc Dimitis

Four Songs from the British Isles

The Source

Lullaby

Negro Spirituals from A Child of Our Time

Over the Sea to Skye*

Unto the Hills (Wadhurst)*

BBC Singers

Stephen Cleobury 

*Premier recordings

Recording details: January 2005

Temple Church, London, United Kingdom

Lennox Berkeley - Nelson (Opera in Three Acts)

Lennox BERKELEY (1903-1989) 

Nelson  

An Opera In Three Acts

Op.41 (1954)

Richard Angas (Bass) , 

Elizabeth Bainbridge (Mezzo-Soprano) , 

Brian Rayner Cook (Baritone) , 

Eiddwen Harrhy (Soprano) , 

David Johnston (Tenor) , 

Richard Jackson (Baritone) , 

Margaret Kingsley (Mezzo-Soprano) , 

Philip O'Reilly (Bass-Baritone) , 

Eric Shilling (Bass-Baritone) , 

Mary Thomas (Soprano)

BBC Singers

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Elgar Howarth

Samuel Barber - Vanessa (Opera Op.32)

Samuel BARBER (1910-1981)

Vanessa Op.32

An Opera in Three Acts (1954-57; revised 1964)

Libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti

Christine Brewer, William Burden, Neal Davies, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Simon Birchall, Susan Graham, Stephen Charlesworth

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Leonard Slatkin

Arnold Schoenberg - Moses und Aron; Chamber Symphony No.2

Arnold SCHOENBERG (1874-1951)

Moses und Aron

Opera in Three Acts

Chamber Symphony No.2, Op.38*

Günther Reich (Moses)

Richard Cassilly (Aron)

BBC Singers; Orpheus Boy's Choir

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Ensemble InterContemporain*

Pierre Boulez

Recording: West Ham Central Mission, London. November 30 and December 3,5 and 6, 1974 (Moses un Aron)

IRCAm, Centre Georges Pompidu, Paris, April 5, 1980 (Symphony)

Britten - Folk Song Arrangements Vol.2

BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913-1976)

Folk Song Arrangements Vol.2

Philip Langridge

Thomas Allen

BBC Singers

Northern Sinfonia

Steuart Bedford

Simon Joly

Schoenberg - Die glückliche Hand; Variations for Orchestra; Verklärte Nacht

Arnold Schoenberg

Die glückliche Hand Op.18

Variations for Orchestra Op.31

Verklärte Nacht for String Orchestra, Op. 4

Siegmund Nimsgern

BBC Symphony Orchestra

BBC Singers

New York Philharmonic 

Pierre Boulez