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Britten: The Rape of Lucretia Jean Rigby (Lucretia), Nigel Robson (Male Chorus), Catherine Pierard (Female Chorus), Donald Maxwell (Tarquinius), Alastair Miles (Collatinus), Alan Opie (Junius), Patricia Rozario (Lucia), Ameral Gunson (Bianca)
City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
Hickox allows his singers plenty of space with no loss of tension; they respond impressively, with Catherine Pierard exceptional as the Female Chorus. — More…
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Mendelssohn: Paulus, Op. 36 (sung in German)
Susan Gritton (soprano), Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano), Barry Banks (tenor) & Peter Coleman-Wright (bass)
BBC National Chorus of Wales & BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox
Composed in the wake of (and influenced by) Mendelssohn's epoch-making performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion, Paulus is an impressive work whose punchy choruses bring out the best in Hickox. — More…
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Dyson: Quo Vadis Cheryl Barker (soprano), Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano), Philip Langridge (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone)
BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales, Chamber Choir of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Richard Hickox
Like so many British composers Dyson, even before he died in 1962, suffered neglect through writing in a conservative idiom that critics were all too ready to label 'out of date'. Originally... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2003, Editor's Choice
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Berkeley, L: A Dinner Engagement, Op. 45 Roderick Williams, Yvonne Kenny, Claire Rutter, Jean Rigby, Anne Collins, Robin Leggate, Blake Fischer
City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
A Dinner Engagement (Aldeburgh, 1954) was written for Britten's English Opera Group, suited their resources and philosophy admirably and was much admired by Britten himself. This jewel of a one-act... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2004, Editor's Choice
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Vaughan Williams: Five Tudor Portraits & 5 Variants of 'Dives & Lazarus' Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
First heard at the 1936 Norwich Festival, Vaughan Williams's Five Tudor Portraits find the composer at his most dazzlingly inventive, the resourceful and witty writing fitting Skelton's words... — More…
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Mendelssohn: Paulus, Op. 36 (sung in German)
Susan Gritton (soprano), Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano), Barry Banks (tenor), Peter Coleman-Wright (bass)
BBC National Chorus & Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox
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Britten: The Rape of Lucretia Jean Rigby (Lucretia), Nigel Robson (Male Chorus), Catherine Pierard (Female Chorus), Donald Maxwell (Tarquinius), Alastair Miles (Collatinus), Alan Opie (Junius), Patricia Rozario (Lucia), Ameral Gunson (Bianca)
City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
Jean Rigby may lack the warmth of Janet Baker, but she gains from having a younger-sounding voice. Equally, the timbre of Nigel Robson as the Male Chorus, rather darker than Peter Pears's, adds... — More…
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Walton: Christopher Columbus: A Musical Journey and Hamlet and Ophelia
Julian Glover, Jamie Glover (speakers), Caroline Carragher (soprano), Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano), Tom Randle (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone), Craig Ogden (guitar)
BBC National Chorus of Wales, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox
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Berg: Wozzeck Andrew Shore (Wozzeck), Josephine Barstow (Marie), Alan Woodrow (Drum Major), Peter Bronder (Andres), Stuart Kale (Hauptmann), Clive Bayley (Doktor), John Graham-Hall (Narr), Jean Rigby (Margaret)
Susan Singh Choristers, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Philharmonia Orchestra, Paul Daniel
This is one of the finest recordings so far in Chandos's 'Opera in English' series, and there's certainly no need to make allowances for the performance because of the language. A Wozzeck to... — More…
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Berkeley, L: Ruth Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano), Mark Tucker (tenor), Yvonne Kenny (soprano), Claire Rutter (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone)
Joyful Company of Singers, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
Much has changed for Lennox Berkeley on disc in the past couple of years thanks to the superb advocacy of Richard Hickox. When A DinnerEngagement was released (see above) we wondered how this... — More…
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