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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Bryn Terfel - Bad Boys
Bryn Terfel, a gentle man in real life, recruits a gang of “bad boy” characters from opera and musicals to serenade us with tunes from the sinister side of the bass clef. Thoroughly convincing as villains you would not want to meet alone in the dark, Bryn Terfel wields a full, wide ranging bass-baritone ever in service to dramatic instincts rare in any era Bad Boys delivers an original concept sure to seduce the media, wow the classical crowd and exert powerful mass appeal. No singer morphs from Don Giovanni to Mack the Knife to Sweeney Todd with Terfel’s devilish ease – Bad Boys is a delightful box of mixed (dark) musical bonbons “…Terfel is a consummate singing actor. …what other artist could find such different voices for singing Il Commendatore, Don Giovanni and Leporello in the closing scene of Mozart's opera.” BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2009 **** “Terfel, of course, brings the smell of the theatre into everything he does. His powerful vocal presence is born of physical presence and he harnesses words, in any language, like few others. Brecht's words for "The Ballad of Mack the Knife" casually slip off Terfel's cords like the threats of a slickly attired bouncer... Sweeney Todd's "Epiphany" (with a flash of Anne Sofie von Otter's cockney Mrs Lovett - not 'arf bad) is scary to behold...” Gramophone Magazine, November 2009 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Albert, E: | Hüll' in die Mantille dich fester ein (from Tiefland) | Bizet: | Votre toast je peux vous le rendre 'Toreador Song' (from Carmen) | Handel: | Dall'ondoso periglio (from Giulio Cesare) Aure, deh, per pietà (from Giulio Cesare) | Verdi: | Cortigiani, vil razza dannata (from Rigoletto) Tutte le feste (from Rigoletto) | Wagner: | Die Frist ist um (from Der fliegende Holländer) Dank, König, dir, daß du zu richten kamst! (from Lohengrin) Erhebe dich, Genossin meiner Schmach! (from Lohengrin) Leb wohl, du kühnes, herrliches Kind! (from Die Walküre) | Weber: | Hier im ird'schen Jammertal (from Der Freischütz) Schweig, schweig (from Der Freischütz) |
Hermann Uhde was a German Wagnerian baritone. In December 1961 Audrey Williamson wrote in Opera magazine: “On the opera stage the connection of intellect and passion is seldom. This is why stage singers like Hermann Uhde deserve the greatest appreciation; they uplift the opera to the highest level of musical drama.” All arias are sung in German | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Great Operatic Arias 8 - John Tomlinson Volume 2Sung in English
Beethoven: | Ha! Welch ein Augenblick! (from Fidelio) Sung in English as 'Now, now for my victory!' Hat man nicht auch Gold (from Fidelio) Sung in English as 'If you don't have any money' | Lortzing: | Auch ich war ein Jüngling (from Der Waffenschmied) Sung in English as 'I used to be young with a fine head of hair’ | Mozart: | Oh, wie will ich triumphieren (from Die Entführung aus dem Serail) Sung in English as 'When they lead you to the scaffold' O Isis und Osiris, schenket (from Die Zauberflöte) Sung in English as 'O Isis and Osiris, listen' | Strauss, R: | Such’ Sie in meiner Taschen meine Brillen (from Der Rosenkavalier) Sung in English as 'Look for my glasses there in my jacket’ | Wagner: | Abendlich strahlt der Sonne Auge (from Das Rheingold) Alice Coote (Fricka), Colin Lee (Froh) Sung in English as 'Evening rays flood the sky with splendour’ Die Frist ist um (from Der fliegende Holländer) Sung in English as 'The time comes round' Mögst du, mein Kind (from Der fliegende Holländer) Sung in English as 'Senta, my child, please make this stranger
warmly welcome’' Das schöne Fest, Johannistag (from Die Meistersinger) Sung in English as 'The feast of John, Midsummer Day' Wahn! Wahn! Überall Wahn! (from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) Sung in English as 'Mad! Mad! All the world's mad' Was duftet doch der Flieder (from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) Sung in English as 'My elder-tree in flower' | Weber: | Schweig, schweig (from Der Freischütz) Sung in English as 'Go! Go! The fatal die is cast!' Hier im ird'schen Jammertal (from Der Freischütz) Sung in English as ‘On this earth we could not bear’ |
“John Tomlinson is one of the finest singing actors on the opera scene today. He is unsurpassed in Wagner, but here he displays his versatility and his exemplary diction in a highly eclectic programme…” BBC Music Magazine “A strong voice, varied repertoire and vivid characterisation make this an appealing disc.” Gramophone Magazine | | | (also available to download from $11.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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