Great British Tenors

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WAGNER/ LEONCAVALLO / SCHUBERT / MENDELSSOHN / BIZET / SULLIVAN / etc
Great British Tenors
Ben Davies, John Coates, Gerwase Elwes, Walter Hyde, Frank Mullings, John McCormack, Joseph Hislop, Parry Jones, Hubert Eisdell, Tudor Davies, etc

[ Heritage / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 1 May 2015

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Commercial recording arrived at the ideal time to capture a golden age of British tenor singing. A range of distinctive qualities had developed in the 19th century - firm yet elegant tone, emphasis on text and on clarity of diction - that characterised the British tenor voice. The worlds of opera, operetta, oratorio and popular song nourished the tradition and benefited from the succession of fine voices the country produced. The recordings presented here capture some of the most important voices of the early 20th century, and demonstrate the range of musical styles in which the British tenor sound could flourish.

This issue secures a unique position in today's CD market.

Tracks:

Bizet:
La fleur que tu m'avais jetée (from Carmen)

Coleridge-Taylor:
Hiawatha's Wedding Feast: Onaway! Awake, beloved!
Eleanore (No. 6 from Six Songs, Op. 37)

German:
Merrie England: Dan Cupid hath a garden "The English Rose"

Lehár:
Patiently smiling from The Land of Smiles
A heart as pure as gold (from Friederike)

Lehmann:
Ah, moon of my delight

Leoncavallo:
Vesti la giubba (from I Pagliacci)

Massenet:
Instant charmant … En fermant les yeux (from Manon)

Mendelssohn:
Elijah: Then shall the righteous

Purcell:
Hears not my Phillis how the birds ('The Knotting Song'), Z371

Quilter:
Love's Philosophy, Op. 3 No. 1 (Shelley)
O mistress mine

Schubert:
An Sylvia, D891
Auf der Bruck, D853
Im Frühling, D882

Sullivan, A:
Take a pair of sparkling eyes (from The Gondoliers)

trad.:
The briery bush
The Foggy, Foggy Dew

Vaughan Williams:
Hugh the drover: Song of the road
The Vagabond (from Songs of Travel)

Wagner:
Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond (from Die Walküre)

Wallace, W V:
Yes! let me like a soldier fall

Warlock:
As ever I saw

White, M:
To Mary