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

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

Micahel Tippett - Piano Sonatas Nos.1-3

Michael TIPPETT (1905-1998)

Piano Sonatas Nos.1-3

Nicholas Unwin

Recording venue: Faculty of Music Concert Hall, Cambridge; 8-9 August 1995.

Tippett - Symphony No.2; Suite for New Year

Michael TIPPETT (1905-1998)

Symphony No. 2

Suite from New Year*

Timothy Holmes (saxophone)*

Alan Taylor (electric guitar)*

Robert Millett (drums)*

Kyle Horch (saxophone)*

Melanie Bush (saxophone)*

Steven Smith (electric guitar)*

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Richard Hickox

Tippett - Symphony No.1; Piano Concerto

Michael TIPPETT (1905-1998)

Symphony No. 1

Piano Concerto

Howard Shelley (Piano)

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Richard Hickox

Release Date: February 28, 1995

Michael Tippett - A Child of Our Time

Michael TIPPETT (1905-1998)

A Child of Our Time (1944)

Sheila Armstrong, Felicity Palmer, Philip Langridge, John Shirley-Quirk

Brighton Festival Chorus

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Andre Previn

Recorded in EMI Studios, Abbey Road, London (July 5th & 6th. 1986)

British Divertimentos & Sinfoniettas

Michael TIPPETT (1905-1998)
Divertimento for Chamber Orchestra "Sellinger’s Round" (1953) 

Alan RAWSTHORNE (1905-1971)
Divertimento for Chamber Orchestra (1961-62)

Benjamin BRITTEN (1913-1976)
Sinfonietta Op.1 (1932) 

Lennox BERKELEY (1903-1976)
Sinfonietta Op.34 (1950) 

Malcolm ARNOLD (1921-2006)
Sinfonietta No.1 Op.48 * (1955)

English Chamber Orchestra/Norman Del Mar
* London Symphony Orchestra/Nicholas Braithwaite
rec. March 1977, Kingsway Hall (Tippett, Rawsthorne, Britten, Berkeley);
6 September 1978, Watford Town Hall (Arnold). ADD

Great British Choral Works

Great British Choral Works

The Sixteen

Harry Christophers

British String Quartets - works by Tippett, Wood, R.O.Morris, Brown and Purcell

British String Quartets

The Lindasys

Christopher Brown: "Fanfare to Welcome Sir Michael Tippett", op. 79

Henry Purcell: Three Fantasias, Nos. 6 in F, 10 in e, and 11 in G

R.O. Morris: "Canzoni Ricertati" (1931)

Charles Wood: String Quartet in a (published posthumously in 1929)

Tippett: String Quartet No. 5

Michael Tippett - King Priam

Michael Tippett (1905-1998)

King Priam

Ann Murray soprano 

Heather Harper soprano 

Felicity Palmer mezzo-soprano 

Norman Bailey bass 

Philip Langridge tenor 

Robert Tear tenor 

Stephen Roberts bass 

Thomas Allen baritone 

Yvonne Minton soprano 

London Sinfonietta Chorus 

London Sinfonietta 

David Atherton 

Recorded in: Kingsway Hall, London, November 1980

Michael Tippett - The 5 String Quartets

MICHAEL TIPPETT

The Five String Quartets (2 CDs)

The Lindsays