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Michael Hurd: The Widow of Ephesus & Mr Owen's Great Endeavour
World premiere recordings
Pippa Goss (The Maid), Louise Winter (The Widow) & Michael Bundy (The Soldier), Michael Bundy (Narrator)
Orchestra Nova, City of Canterbury Chamber Choir, George Vass
[The Widow of Ephesus] is neat and entertaining in an archly comic, tongue-in-cheek sort of way...[Hurd's music] is couched in a thoroughly accessible idiom, is always rhythmical and is remarkably... — More…
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Michael Hurd: The Aspern Papers & The Night of the Wedding
Two Chamber Operas
Owen Gilhooly (Harry Jordan), Pippa Goss (Mrs Prest), Clare McCaldin (Miss Tina/Servant), Louise Winter (Juliana Bordereau), Nicholas Morton (Count Gervaise de Polisson), Garry Humphreys (Antoine, his manservant), Rhian Lois (La Marquise de Belle Poitrine), Matthew Buswell (Le Marquis), Simon Lepper...
The juicy stuff lies in the orchestral writing (beautifully played), often suffused with a wistful melancholy distantly suggesting the moodier film scores of Bernard Herrmann…George Vass's team... — More…
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Elgar - Sea Pictures & Pageant of Empire
Recorded at The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, 6-7 October & 10 November 2009
Roderick Williams (baritone)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Martin Yates
In this absorbing anthology of British orchestral songs, wchich splendidly showcases the vocal artistry of baritone Roderick Williams, Elgar bulks largest...This disc has Dutton's quintessential... — More…
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Michael Hurd: Pop Cantatas
John Addison (narrator) & Alexander Wells (piano)
Members of the New London Orchestra & New London Children’s Choir, Ronald Corp
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Ronald Corp conducts Corp and Hurd
Recorded at Lighthouse, Poole, Dorset, 27-28 June 2011
Mark Stone (baritone), Roderick Williams (baritone)
The London Chorus (with members of the Highgate Choral Society), New London Children’s Choir & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, The London Chorus & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Ronald Corp
Corp's war requiem is ambitious, eclectic and just skirts the memorable. Hurd's cantata on John Clare poems boasts a haunting slow movement and eloquent baritone Roderick Williams. — More…
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Over The Water
Music for Recorder & String Orchestra
John Turner (recorder)
Manchester Camerata Ensemble
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Michael Hurd: Orchestral Music & Pop Cantatas
Recorded: St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, 11 March & 23-25 April 2012
Lorraine McAslan (violin), Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Anthony Gregory (tenor) & Anna Lush (soprano), Alex Wells (piano), Alex Karlsson (treble), Billie Hilton (soprano) & Alex Wells (piano)
New London Orchestra, New London Orchestra & New London Children's Choir, New London Children's...
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Hurd: Choral Music Vol. 2 & Complete Solo Songs
Herefordshire Chorus, Marta Fontanals-Simmons, Sarah Mapplebeck, Simon Lepper, Marcus Farnsworth, Benjamin Hulett
David Temple
Mezzo-soprano Marta Fontanals-Simmons shines in The Phoenix and the Turtle…Needless to report, the indefatigable David Temple secures splendidly alert results from his Hertfordshire Chorus and... — More…
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