in Opera Now (Jun, 2014)
Recorded live in Vienna in 2011 with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen and featuring John Tomlinson in the opera’s title role, this disc promises much on paper. Apart from a handful of intense dramatic moments, however, most of which are down to the orchestra, the result is disappointing. Its weak point is language: the opening narration is delivered in English while the rest of the opera is sung in Magyar, highlighting the fact that this disc has been made for an English-speaking market. Tomlinson and his Judith, Michelle DeYoung, both have wonderful voices, but their understandable handicap when it comes to colouring the subtler linguistic nuances of Bela Balazs’ libretto …
Bennett: My Dancing Day
My dancing day
Gloria, gloria
In the bleak midwinter
New year carol
Town and country
The sun has long been set
Town and country
Serenaden
Mistress Margaret
Mistress Margery
Mistress Anne
My darling dear
Mistress Isabel
The apple tree
4 Lieder nach Gedichten von Thomas Campion
Nr. 1: Winter nights
Nr. 2: Never weather-beaten Saile
Nr. 3: Fire, fire!
Nr. 4: The hours of sleepy night
A good-night
By Strauss (bearb. von Richard Rodney Bennett)
Sophisticated lady (bearb. von Richard Rodney Bennett)
Every time we say goodbye (bearb. von Richard Rodney Bennett)
BBC Singers / Paul Brough
20,60€
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