Chandos Sale - Physical up to 25% Off & Downloads up to 40% Off
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Chandos Sale - Physical up to 25% Off & Downloads up to 40% Off, Cheryl Barker (soprano)
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Special offer. Great Operatic Arias 21 - Cheryl Barker
Sung in English
Cheryl Barker (soprano), Gillian Keith (Masha), William Dazeley (Silvio), William Dazeley (Maurice), Gillian Keith (Zdenka), William Dazeley (Mandryka)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, David Parry
Anguish… the keynote, coming across best in Margarita's prison aria from Boito's Mefistofele and Lisa's midnight soliloquy in Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades. — More…
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Special offer. Janacek: Katya Kabanova
Cheryl Barker (Katya), Jane Henschel (Kabanicha), Robert Brubaker (Boris Grigoryevich), Peter Hoare (Tichon Kabanov), Peter Wedd (Kudryash), Victoria Simmonds (Varvara), Kathleen Wilkinson (Glasha), Gwynne Howell (Dikoi); Welsh National Opera, Carlo Rizzi
…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... — More…
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Opera Finalist
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2007, Opera Choice
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Special offer. Janáček: The Makropulos Case
Cheryl Barker (Emilia Marty - 'E.M.'), Robert Brubaker (Albert Gregor), John Graham-Hall (Vítek), Elena Xanthoudakis (Kristina), John Wegner (Baron Jaroslav Prus), Thomas Walker (Janek Prus), Neal Davies (Dr Kolenaty), Graeme Danby (Stage Hand), Graham Clark (Count Hauk-Šendorf)
English National...
Mackerras's reading, recorded in live performance, is slightly more expansive than his benchmark Vienna version… but the passionately lyrical urgency and sense of mystery drive it along just... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Opera
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2007, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. 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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Special offer. Dvořák: Rusalka, Op. 114
Cheryl Barker (soprano) / Rosario La Spina (tenor) / Bruce Martin (baritone) / Elizabeth Whitehouse (soprano) / Anne-Marie Owens (mezzo-soprano) / Sarah Crane (soprano) / Taryn Fiebig (soprano) / Dominica Matthews (mezzo-soprano) / Barry Ryan (baritone) & Sian Pendry (soprano)
Opera Australia...
Hickox conducts with real theatrical warmth… — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2008, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Puccini: Madam Butterfly
Cheryl Barker (Butterfly), Jean Rigby (Suzuki), Paul Charles Clarke (Pinkerton), Gregory Yurisich (Sharpless), Stuart Kale (Goro), D'Arcy Bleiker (Yamadori), Clive Bayley (The Bonze)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Yves Abel
A clear recommendation for those wanting Butterfly in English; even those who don't will find Abel's handling of the score absorbing from first to last — More…
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Special offer. Within a Dream - A Celebration of Richard Hickox
in association with the Richard Hickox Foundation
Richard Hickox
Inevitably when such a breadth of repertoire is being covered, we’re talking movements rather than complete works, but it’s been sympathetically programmed, and consequently the transitions... — More…
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Special offer. Puccini Passions
Mary Plazas (soprano), Cheryl Barker (soprano), Gregory Yurisich (baritone), Stuart Kale (tenor), Paul Charles Clarke (tenor), Jane Eaglen (soprano), Mark Le Brocq (tenor), Peter Wedd (tenor), Peter Sidhom (bass), Dennis O'Neill (tenor), Jean Rigby (mezzo), Cynthia Haymon (soprano), Susan Patterson...
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