SACD, Getty (composer)
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A performance full of interest and vividly communicative artistry. —
Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2019
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2019, Choral & Song Choice
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Special offer. Getty: Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Nathan Granner (Chips), Melody Moore (Kathie/Linford), Lester Lynch (Merrivale), Michael Jankosky (Faulkner), Bruce Rameker (West), Kevin Short (Ralston/Rivers), Barbary Coast Orchestra, San Francisco Boys Chorus, Dennis Doubin
Like Mr Chips himself, this opera isn’t out to change the world, but it may make a small part of it better. —
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Special offer. Getty: Beauty Come Dancing
The Netherlands Radio Choir & Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, James Gaffigan
Gordon Getty’s music is fluent and lyrical, reminiscent of the first half of the 20th century; but when he gets a good idea, the choral lines are repeated continually and often have the quality... —
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Special offer. Getty: The Canterville Ghost
Alexandra Hutton (soprano), Jean Broekhuizen (mezzo-soprano), Denise Wernly (mezzo-soprano), Rachel Marie Hauge (mezzo-soprano), Timothy Oliver (tenor), Jonathan Michie (baritone), Anooshah Golesorkhi (baritone), Matthew Trevino (bass)
Oper Leipzig & Gewandhausorchester, Matthias Foremny
Getty's musical language is conservative but colourful, but his text-setting, with frequent large leaps across consonant intervals, tends to the monotonous...Matthias Foremny conducts the Leipzig... —
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Special offer. Gordon Getty - Young America
Choral Works
Lisa Delan (soprano), Vladimir Chernov (baritone), Pavlo Hunka (bass baritone), Gunnar Birgirsson (baritone), Mats Carlsson (tenor)
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Russian National Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas, Alexander Vedernikov
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Special offer. Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Suite No. 2 and Getty: Joan and the Bells
Vladimir Chernov & Lisa Delan
Russian National Orchestra & The Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Alexander Vedernikov
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Special offer. A Certain Slant of Light
Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson
Lisa Delan (soprano)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille, Lawrence Foster
[Tilson Thomas’s] spacious text-setting and assured, imaginative orchestrations compellingly evoke the oblique, revelatory quality of Dickinson’s verse. Lisa Delan, a committed champion of American... —
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Special offer. Getty: Plump Jack
Lester Lynch (Falstaff), Melody Moore (Boy/Clarence), Suzanne Mentzer (Hostess - 'Nell Quickly'), Nikolai Schukoff (Hal), Christopher Robertson (Henry IV/Pistol), Robert Breault (Shallow/Fat Captain), Diana Kohrig (First Traveller), Bruce Ramkar (Warwick), Nathaniel Webster (Bardolph/Chief Justice),...
Getty's opera is stuffed with period-evoking quotations, and even this shortened 'concert-version', squeezed on to a single disc, feels long and unmemorable. But the strong cast makes a fine... —
