Richard Croft
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Handel: Semele
Rosemary Joshua (Semele), Hilary Summers (Juno/Ino), Richard Croft (Jupiter), Stephen Wallace (Athamas), Brindley Sherratt (Cadmus/Somnus) & Gail Pearson (Iris), David Croft (Apollo)
Early Opera Company (on period instruments), Christian Curnyn
In the title role, soprano Rosemary Joshua applies light and graceful tone and conveys Semele's wilful, pleasure-seeking nature. As her immortal lover Jupiter, tenor Richard Croft is equally... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2008, Editor's Choice
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Handel Edition Volume 8 - Theodora, Acis and Galatea, etc.
RecommendedSophie Daneman (Galatea), Paul Agnew (Acis), Alan Ewing (Polyphemus), Patricia Petibon (Damon), Joseph Cornwell (Coridon), Sophie Daneman (Theodora), Richard Croft (Septimius), Juliette Galstian (Irene), Daniel Taylor (Didymus), Nathan Berg (Valens), Laurent Slaars (Messenger), Eva Mei (soprano)
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Building a Library, September 2013, CD Recommendation
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To Saint Cecilia
Les Musiciens du Louvre (early music ensemble), Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble, Nicholas Jenkins, Neil Baker, Luca Tittoto, Richard Croft (tenor), Anders Dahlin, Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto), Lucy Crowe (soprano)
Marc Minkowski
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Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (New Completion by Robert Levin)
Ruth Ziesak (soprano), Nancy Maultsby (mezzo-soprano), Richard Croft (tenor), David Arnold (baritone)
Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman
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My Classical Christmas
Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Brad Mehldau (piano), Concerto Italiano (early music ensemble), Pavol Breslik (tenor), Sandrine Piau (soprano), Anne Gastinel (cello), Les Musiciens du Louvre (early music ensemble), Concerto Köln (early music ensemble), Lucy Crowe...
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Handel: Hercules
Gidon Saks (Hercules), Anne Sofie von Otter (Dejanira), Richard Croft (Hyllus), Lynne Dawson (Iole), David Daniels (Lichas), Marcos Pujol (Priest)
Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Hercules has never quite occupied the place it merits in the Handel canon, even though it includes some of his most powerfully dramatic music. This is understood by Marc Minkowski, whose intentions... — More…
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Handel: Theodora, HWV 68
Sophie Daneman, Daniel Taylor, Nathan Berg
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
Sophie Daneman is the Christian martyr, bringing innocence and radiant resolve to the role… Christie's management of the sequence of symphonies and arias in Act II, scene 2 is masterly as Theodora... — More…
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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123
Simone Schneider (soprano), Gerhild Romberger (mezzo), Richard Croft (tenor), Jochen Kupfer (bass)
Gewandhausorchester & MDR Rundfunkchor, Herbert Blomstedt
Blomstedt takes his religion very seriously, and conducts Beethoven's puzzling Mass as an act of faith, not of enquiry; it is impressive. — More…
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Handel: Messiah Susan Gritton (soprano), Cornelia Horak (soprano), Bejun Mehta (countertenor), Richard Croft (tenor), Florian Boesch (baritone)
Ensemble Matheus & Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Jean-Christophe Spinosi
there are some penetrating ideas lurking behind the underlying premise, which in essence orbits around the moral, theological and familial fallout surrounding a suicide...the singing blazes... — More…
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Handel: Messiah Susan Gritton (soprano), Cornelia Horak (soprano), Bejun Mehta (countertenor), Richard Croft (tenor), Florian Boesch (baritone)
Ensemble Matheus & Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Jean-Christophe Spinosi
there are some penetrating ideas lurking behind the underlying premise, which in essence orbits around the moral, theological and familial fallout surrounding a suicide...the singing blazes... — More…
