Live 'Gerontius' from Wales 7.11.14

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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26601

    Live 'Gerontius' from Wales 7.11.14

    Very good and powerful performance, I thought - a rather too wobbly-fruity 'Angel' (Anna Larsson) the only drawback, for me... Some really cracking stuff (towards the end especially) from the tenor (Peter Hoare - never heard of him, someone to watch), good bass and choir & orchestra really delivering the goods under Mark Wigglesworth. Class
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

  • MrGongGong
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 18357

    #2

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    • EdgeleyRob
      Guest
      • Nov 2010
      • 12180

      #3
      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      Very good and powerful performance, I thought - a rather too wobbly-fruity 'Angel' (Anna Larsson) the only drawback, for me... Some really cracking stuff (towards the end especially) from the tenor (Peter Hoare - never heard of him, someone to watch), good bass and choir & orchestra really delivering the goods under Mark Wigglesworth. Class
      Top,couldn't fault it.
      Now a bonus of Brahms 1st serenade,and today's all of Bach to come.

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      • french frank
        Administrator/Moderator
        • Feb 2007
        • 30647

        #4
        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
        Very good and powerful performance, I thought - a rather too wobbly-fruity 'Angel' (Anna Larsson) the only drawback, for me... Some really cracking stuff (towards the end especially) from the tenor (Peter Hoare - never heard of him, someone to watch), good bass and choir & orchestra really delivering the goods under Mark Wigglesworth. Class
        I'm going to a performance at the Colston Hall at the end of this month - Susan Bickley and Mark Padmore with the BSO and Adrian Partington (with the local BCS Singers ) And David Stout is the baritone.

        Peter Hoare sings quite regularly with WNO.
        It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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        • Beef Oven!
          Ex-member
          • Sep 2013
          • 18147

          #5
          Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
          iPlayer?

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          • Alison
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 6488

            #6
            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
            Very good and powerful performance, I thought - a rather too wobbly-fruity 'Angel' (Anna Larsson) the only drawback, for me... Some really cracking stuff (towards the end especially) from the tenor (Peter Hoare - never heard of him, someone to watch), good bass and choir & orchestra really delivering the goods under Mark Wigglesworth. Class
            A perfect summation. Wiggy really is all class.

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            • mopsus
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 845

              #7
              Peter Hoare also sang the title role in ENO's Damnation of Faust.

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