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Chandos Sale - Physical up to 25% Off & Downloads up to 40% Off

Until the 30th October we are offering huge savings on Chandos titles - up to 40% off downloads and up to 25% off CD, SACD, DVD, and Vinyl.

Chandos Sale - Physical up to 25% Off & Downloads up to 40% Off, Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano)

Showing 1 - 10 of 16 results
Showing 1 - 10 of 16 results
  • Rebecca Evans, Joan Rodgers, Jean Rigby, Nigel Robson, Peter Coleman-Wright

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Waynflete Singers, Richard Hickox

    This is only the third commercial recording of AMass of Life. The previous two recordings were the 1952 Beecham (no longer available) and the 1971 Groves on EMI. You might imagine modern recording... More…

    2 CDs

    Original price ($34.50) Reduced price $27.94

    Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days

    This release includes a digital booklet

  • 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he died in 1962, suffered neglect through writing in a conservative idiom that critics were all too ready to label 'out of date'.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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    2 CDs

    Original price ($34.50) Reduced price $27.94

    This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched.

    This release includes a digital booklet

  • 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…

    2 CDs

    Original price ($17.25) Reduced price $14.14

    Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days

    This release includes a digital booklet

  • (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…

    2 CDs

    Original price ($14.50) Reduced price $12.32

    This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched.

    This release includes a digital booklet

  • 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... More…

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    This release includes a digital booklet

  • 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…

    2 CDs

    Original price ($22.25) Reduced price $18.02

    Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days

    This release includes a digital booklet

  • (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

    This release includes a digital booklet

  • 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…

    2 CDs

    Original price ($22.25) Reduced price $18.02

    Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days

    This release includes a digital booklet

  • 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…

    This release includes a digital booklet

  • 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…

    CD

    Original price ($17.25) Reduced price $14.14

    Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days

    This release includes a digital booklet