Sarah Walker

Mezzo-Soprano

Sarah Walker began her musical life as a violinist at the Royal College of Music and subsequently studied singing with Vera Rozsa with whom she has a built up an extraordinarily wide repertoire ranging from Bach and the Baroque to twentieth century composers such as Berio, Boulez and Birtwistle.

On the concert platform she has worked with conductors such as Solti, Kleiber, Norrington, Masur, Rattle, Gardiner, Muti, and Haitink. She was a memorable Britannia at the Last Night of the Proms and took part in the performance of Beethoven's 9th, conducted by the late Leonard Bernstein in Berlin, given to celebrate the opening of the Berlin Wall at Christmas in 1989.

Since her debut at Glyndebourne she has sung in opera houses all over the world including The Royal Opera House Covent Garden - where she made her debut as Charlotte in Massenet's "Werther" opposite Alfredo Kraus, The Metropolitan Opera New York - where she debuted as Micah in Handel's "Samson" with Jon Vickers in the title role. Among more than sixty roles in her repertoire are Didon, Maria Stuarda, Fricka, Klytämnestra, Dorabella, Donna Elvira, Katisha, Mistress Quickly, numerous Handel and Monteverdi heroines and the title role in Britten's Gloriana, videoed for Virgin Classics.

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Vaughan Williams - Choral Works

from CDA66420, CDA66655, CDA66511 & CDA66569

Vaughan Williams:

Serenade to Music

Elizabeth Connell (soprano), Amanda Roocroft (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Martyn Hill (tenor), Maldwyn Davies (tenor), Anne Dawson (soprano), Linda Kitchen (soprano), Alan Opie (baritone), Gwynne Howell (bass), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzosoprano) & John Connell (bass)

English Chamber Orchestra

Fantasia on Christmas Carols

Thomas Allen (baritone)

English Chamber Orchestra

Flos Campi

Nobuko Imai (viola)

English Chamber Orchestra

Five Mystical Songs

Sir Thomas Allen (baritone)

English Chamber Orchestra

Dona Nobis Pacem

A Cantata for soprano and baritone soli, chorus and orchestra

Judith Howarth (soprano) & Thomas Allen (baritone)

Corydon Orchestra

Four Hymns

for tenor, viola and strings

John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & Matthew Souter (viola)

Corydon Orchestra

O Clap Your Hands (Psalm 47)

Lord, Thou has been our refuge

Sir Thomas Allen (baritone)

The Pilgrim's Progress - A Bunyan Sequence

Text and music adapted by Christopher Palmer from the 1942 radio version of The Pilgrim's Progress.

Sir John Gielgud, Richard Pasco, Ursula Howells (speakers), Aidan Oliver (treble)

The City of London Sinfonia

A Song of Thanksgiving

Sir John Gielgud (speaker), Lynne Dawson (soprano) & John Scott (organ)

The London Oratory Junior Choir

Three Choral Hymns

Magnificat

Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano), Duke Dobing (flute) & Roger Judd (organ)

The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains

Bryn Terfel (baritone), Alan Opie (baritone), Adrian Thompson (tenor), Jonathan Best (bass), John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & Linda Kitchen (soprano)

The Hundredth Psalm

Corydon Singers, Matthew Best

Issued to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Vaughan Williams’s death, this collection is tantalizing: it starts with one of the best-selling discs in the the catalogue, the Serenade to Music, and includes such favourites as the Five Mystical Songs and The Hundreth Psalm. There are also two intriguing pairings: in Dona nobis pacem, RVW warns of the impending doom of WWII, in A song of thanksgiving we hear his moving response to its successful conclusion; in The shepherds of the delectable mountains we hear an early working of Bunyan’s literary masterpiece, later extensively reworked in the landmark 1942 BBC radio production of The Pilgrim’s Progress featuring Sir John Gielgud and reprised here, this time in condensed form.

‘Performances like these don’t come along very often; each one is an absolute winner, and with rich, atmospheric recording quality the satisfaction is of a very special quality’ (CD Review)

Hyperion - CDS44321/4

(CD - 4 discs)

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A Tribute To Benjamin Britten

Special Box Set with 7 Operas

Britten:

Peter Grimes

(ENO 1994)

Philip Langridge, Janice Cairns, Alan Opie, Ann Howard, Andrew Green

English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, David Atherton

The Rape of Lucretia

(ENO 1987)

Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Kathryn Harries, Jean Rigby, Russell Smythe, Richard van Allan, Allan Opie, Anne-Marie Owens, Cathryn Po

English National Opera Orchestra, Lionel Friend

Billy Budd

(ENO 1988)

Thomas Allen, Philip Langridge, Richard van Allan, Neil Howlett.

English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, David Atherton

Gloriana

(ENO 1984)

Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Jean Rigby, Richard van Allan, Elizabeth Vaughan, Alan Opie

English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Mark Elder

The Turn of the Screw

(Schwetzinger 1990)

Helen Field, Menai Davies, Richard Greager, Machiko Obata

Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Steuart Bedford

Owen Wingrave

(Film, 2001)

Gerald Finley, Peter Savidge, Hilton Marlton, Josephine Barstow, Anne Dawson, Elizabeth Gale, Charlotte Hellekant, Martyn Hill

Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano

Death in Venice

(Glyndebourne 1990)

Robert Tear, Alan Opie, Michael Chance

The Glyndebourne Chorus and the London Sinfonietta, Graeme Jenkins

Let’s make an opera

An Opera Feature Film by Petr Weigl.

Felicity Palmer, Kate Flowers, Stephen Richardson, John Graham Hall, Lisa Milne, Liam Shena, Julia Campbell, Kevin Bloomer, Nigel Wall, Francesca Massey, Edward Yeo, Nettle & Markham (pianoduo) & Huw Ceredig (percussion)

The Coull Quartet, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and Symphony Youth Chorus, Simon Halsey

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Arthaus Musik - 102103

(DVD Video - 8 discs)

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Henze: Voices

Voices is one of Henze’s prominent political works of the 1970s which sets texts by a variety of writers in several languages. This unique recording is released internationally on CD for the first time in 2006, the year of Henze’s 80th birthday.

Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano) & Paul Sperry (tenor)

London Sinfonietta, Hans Werner Henze

“Spirited, meticulous and virtuoso performances under the composer’s own direction.” Gramophone

Explore Records - EXP0007

(CD - 2 discs)

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Schubert - Lieder

Schubert:

Die schöne Müllerin, D795

Winterreise D911

Schwanengesang, D957

Goethe-Lieder

Various Lied Recitals

Peter Schreier (tenor), Walter Olbertz (piano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Hartmut Höll (piano), Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano), Arleen Auger (soprano), Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Charles Spencer (piano), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Steuart Bedford (piano), Robert Holl (bass-baritone), Naum Grubert (piano)

Brilliant Classics - 99443

(CD - 7 discs)

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Beethoven - Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6

Beethoven:

Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67

Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 'Pastoral'

Yvonne Kenny, Sarah Walker, Patrick Power & Petteri Salomas

The Schütz Choir of London & London Classical Players, Sir Roger Norrington

Building a Library

Period Instrument Choice - February 2002

Virgin Virgo - 5624892

(CD)

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Michael Tippett

Tippett:

The Ice Break

Heather Harper, David Wilson-Johnson,Sanford Sylvan, Cynthia Clarey,Carolann Page, Thomas Randle,Bonaventura Bottone, Christopher Robson,Sarah Walker & Donald Maxwell

London Sinfonietta and Chorus, David Atherton

EMI British Composers - 5865852

(CD)

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