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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | The tragic libretto portrays a woman driven to despair and suicide by her husband and monstrous mother-in-law. The result is a deeply moving, intensely lyrical work, as engaging in the beauty of the vocal and orchestral writing as in its story – which also revealed the tragedy of Slavic provincial life, of which Janácek was only too well aware: ‘There is much sadness and Slav tenderness and depth of feeling in it. May I find the right way to express it with equal intensity’, wrote Janácek on The Storm, the Ostrovsky play that was his source for Katya Kabanova.
Cheryl Barker (soprano) / Jane Henschel (mezzo-soprano) / Victoria Simmonds (mezzo-soprano) / Kathleen Wilkinson (mezzo-soprano) / Claire Hampton (soprano) / Robert Brubaker (tenor) / Peter Hoare (tenor) / Peter Wedd (tenor) / Owen Webb (baritone) / Gwynne Howell (bass) / Sian Meinir (mezzo-soprano) & Philip Lloyd-Holtam (tenor) Chorus of Welsh National Opera & Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Carlo Rizzi Only available recording in English “Cheryl Barker’s Katya is a huge achievement, rapturously sung, pertinently acted…” Venue Magazine (on WNO's performances of Katya Kabanova) “…Rizzi illuminates… with almost Puccinian warmth, while keenly evoking the tightening tensions beneath. …Barker's… intense soprano, large for the role, makes Katya sound stronger than usual yet also more neurotic… Her brief over Boris, sung with appropriate charm and vague callousness by Robert Brubaker, and her useless husband Tchon, well sketched by Peter Hoare, are just the agents. Katya's real downfall is the trap set by her oppressive mother-in-law Kabanicha... Jane Henschel sings her with steely hauteur...” BBC Music Magazine, December 2007 *****  BBC Music Magazine
Opera Choice - December 2007 |
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| | The Vagabond Whither Must I Wander Sea Fever Little Prince (The Little Prince) They Call the Wind Maria (Paint Your Wagon) English Northern Philharmonia, Paul Daniel Come Home (Allegro) English Northern Philharmonia, Paul Daniel Ar Hyd Y Nos (All Through the Night) Suo-Gan (Lullaby) Sì, tra i ceppi e le ritorte (Berenice) Vouchsafe, O Lord (Dettingen Te Deum) Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Mackerras | Berlioz: | Une puce gentille (Flea Song) Voice des roses (Air de Méphistophélès) Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, Myung-Whun Chung | Gurney: | Sleep | Hughes, J: | Guide me, O thou great Redeemer (Cwm Rhondda) The Black Mountain Chorus, Risca Male Choir & The Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Gareth Jones | Mahler: | In diesem Wetter, in diesem Braus (Kindertotenlieder) Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Sinopoli | Mendelssohn: | Lord God of Abraham (Elijah) Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Paul Daniel | Mozart: | Le nozze di Figaro, K492 - Non piu andrai, farfallone amoroso Guglielmo and Dorabellas's Duet (Il core vi dono) from Così fan tutte Cecilia Bartoli (Dorabella) & Bryn Terfel (Guglielmo) Orchestra dell’Accademia die Santa Cecilia, Myung-Chun Chung Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen (from Die Zauberflöte) Concert Aria, KAnh. 245: Io ti lascio, oh cara, addio Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras | Quilter: | Go, lovely Rose, Op. 24 No. 3 (Edmund Wailer) Malcolm Martineau (piano) | Rutter: | The Lord bless you and keep you London Symphony Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth | Schubert: | Erlkönig, D328 Du bist die Ruh D776 (Rückert) Der Musensohn, D764 (Goethe) | Schumann: | Du bist wie eine Blume, Op. 25 No. 24 Die beiden Grenadiere, Op. 49 No. 1 Mein Wagen rollet langsam, Op. 142 No. 4 | Sullivan: | Hereupon we’re both agreed (The Yeomen of the Guard) Academy of St. Martins in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner | trad.: | Amazing Grace London Symphony Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth Shenandoah London Symphony Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth Deep River arr. Chris Hazell | Vaughan Williams: | Silent Noon | Verdi: | Eh Paggio! (from Falstaff) MET Orchestra, James Levine | Wagner: | Die Frist ist um (Holländer) Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado O du, mein holder Abendstern (Wolfram) The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine |
Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Luciano Pavarotti (Ernani), Joan Sutherland (Elvira), Leo Nucci (Carlo), Paata Burchuladze (Silva), Linda McLeod (Giovanna), Richard Morton (Riccardo) & Alastair Miles (Jago) Orchestra & Chorus of Welsh National Opera, Richard Bonynge "... Bonynge brings more relish to the ryhthms, and (helped by the brighter recording) is better at exposing the colourfulness of orchestration...Sutherland's well-observed and skilfully executed staccatos in her big solo... Nucci's legato, Pavarotti's thrilling account of the Ivanov cabaletta... the orchestra are fine, the chorus excellent... there is much to like here." Gramophone April 1998 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Jerry Hadley (Faust), Cecilia Gasdia (Marguerite), Samuel Ramey (Méphistophélès), Alexandru Agache (Valentin), Susanne Mentzer (Siébel), Brigitte Fassbaender (Marthe) & Philippe Fourcade (Wagner) Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Carlo Rizzi | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Alexandru Agache (Rigoletto), Leontina Vaduva (Gilda), Richard Leech (Il duca di Mantova), Samuel Ramey (Sparafucile) & Jennifer Larmore (Maddalena) Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Carlo Rizzi | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Richard Leech(Riccardo), Michèle Crider (Amelia), Vladimir Chernov (Renato), Elena Zaremba (Ulrica), Maria Bayo (Oscar), Roberto Scaltriti (Silvano), Peter Rose (Samuel), Gwynne Howell (Tom), Peter Bronder (Un giudice) Chorus of Welsh National Opera, Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Carlo Rizzi | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Alison Hagley, Neill Archer, Donald Maxwell, Kenneth Cox, Penelope Walker, Samuel Burkey, Peter Massocchi Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Pierre Boulez, directed by Peter Stein Subtitles in French, German, English, Spanish, Chinese | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Welsh National Opera Orchestra, Charles Mackerras | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Text by the composer and Konstantin Shilovsky after Alexander Pushkin's verse novel Eugene Onegin, with the English translation by David Lloyd-Jones
Thomas Hampson (baritone), Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Neil Rosenshein (tenor), John Connell (bass) Chorus of Welsh National Opera, Chorus of Welsh National Opera, Sir Charles Mackerras | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Mathias: | Ave Rex Welsh National Opera Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, David Atherton Elegy for a Prince Sir Geraint Evans (bass-baritone) New Philharmonia Orchestra, David Atherton This World's Joie Janet Price (soprano), Kenneth Bowen (tenor), Michael Rippon (baritone) The Bach Choir, St George’s Choristers, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks |
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