Browse: Balfe (composer)
This page lists all recordings composed by Michael William Balfe (1808–70).
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Elîna Garanča: Habanera
RecommendedElîna Garanča (mezzo), Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Coro Filarmonico del Regio di Torino, Karel Mark Chichon
Garanča's is a medium-scale mezzo approach, elegant and devoid of ugly lurches into chest voice. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd August 2010
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2010, Editor's Choice
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Bradman has it all – a richness and range of colour in the middle voice that puts many mezzos to shame, extreme high notes of extraordinary fullness, and the sparkling-clean coloratura that usually... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th August 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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French Coloratura Arias RecommendedSumi Jo (soprano)
English Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Very Best of English Song
RecommendedDame Janet Baker (mezzo), Gerald Moore (piano), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison (piano), Ian Partridge (tenor), Janet Craxton (piano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano),...
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also recommended
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended orchestral version (Songs of Travel)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year
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The McCormack Edition Volume 1
The Acoustic Victor and HMV Recordings (1910-11)
John McCormack (tenor)
Victor Orchestra
[his] ability to communicate the very heart of the music came into its own, whether it was Schubert lieder or a sentimental ballad – to him it was all equal if it had the power to move — More…
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This set gives an invaluable historical cross-section of Antipodean singers in both commercial and rare archive recordings. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2017, Re-issue of the Month
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The McCormack Edition Volume 7
Acoustic Recordings (1916-18)
John McCormack (tenor) with Fritz Kreisler (violin), Reinald Werrenrath (baritone), Harry Macdonough and Lambert Murphy (tenors), Dominic Melillo (harp) & Rosario Bourdon (celeste)
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Balfe: Satanella (or ‘The Power of Love’)
Sally Silver (soprano), Catherine Carby (mezzo), Christine Tocci, Elizabeth Sikora (mezzo-sopranos), Kang Wang (tenor), Quentin Hayes, Anthony Gregory, Frank Church (baritones), Travor Bowes (bass)
Victorian Opera Orchestra & John Powell Singers, Richard Bonynge
Satanella's stagey conventions and plonking couplets rather disconcertingly reveal what Gilbert and Sullivan were parodying. The only way to perform this is full-bloodedly. Richard Bonynge whips... — More…
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