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Performer: Christopher Purves

THOMAS MOORE'S IRISH MELODIES: Dear Harp of my Country. Erin! the smile and the tear in thine eyes. How sweet the answer Echo makes. Silent, oh Moyle! be the roar of thy water ( The Song of Fionnuala ). Rich and rare were the gems she wore. The twisting of the rope. Joice's Tune. The summer is coming. Carolan's Concerto. The harp that once, thro' Tara's halls. Nanny McDermotroe. The valley lay smiling before me (The Song of O'Ruark, Prince of Breffni). Abigail Judge. Avenging and bright. The Minstrel-Boy. Lament for Own O'Neill. 'Tis believed that this harp (The Origin of the Harp). Come, rest in this bosom. She is far from the land. Come o'er the sea. 'Tis the last rose of summer. Girls, have you seen George? The pretty girl milking the cows. John, heir of the glen. Love in secret. The jointure. How dear to me the hour. Fly not yet. At the mid hour of night. What the bee is to the floweret. Fill the bumper fair! (Review by David Johnson)

bass 

BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: Ich habe genug (Review by William Kempster)

bass baritone 

BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: St. John Passion (Review by Lynn René Bayley)

bass 

BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN: Fidelio (Review by Henry Fogel)

Fernando 

BENJAMIN, GEORGE: Written on Skin (Review by James H. North)

the Protector 

BENJAMIN, GEORGE: Written on Skin (Review by James H. North)

the Protector 

BENJAMIN, GEORGE: Written on Skin (Review by Joel Kasow)

the Protector 

BENJAMIN, GEORGE: Written on Skin. Duet for Piano and Orchestra (Review by James H. North)

the Protector 

BERLIOZ: La damnation de Faust (Review by Huntley Dent)

Mephistopheles 

BERLIOZ: La damnation de Faust (Review by Huntley Dent)

Mephistopheles 

BRITTEN: Peter Grimes (Review by Lynn René Bayley)

Capt. Balstrode 

BRITTEN: The Rape of Lucretia (Review by Alan Swanson)

Collatinus 

BRITTEN: The Rape of Lucretia (Review by Lynn René Bayley)

Collatinus 

DONIZETTI: Maria di Rohan (Review by Joel Kasow)

Enrico 

EISLER: The Hollywood Songbook (Review by William Kempster)

bass baritone 

ELGAR: Caractacus (Review by Jim Svejda)

bass 

HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC: Alcina (Review by Henry Fogel)

Melisso 

HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC: Athalia, HWV 152 (Review by Bertil van Boer)

bass 

HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC: Bass arias from (Review by Barry Brenesal)

baritone 

HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC: Belshazzar, HWV 161 (Review by Bertil van Boer)

bass 

HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC: Concerto grosso in F, HWV 315 (Review by Bertil van Boer)

bass 

HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC: Esther (1732) (Review by Ron Salemi)

Haman 

HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC: Esther, HWV 50a (Review by Bertil van Boer)

bass 

HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC: Israel in Egypt Coronation Anthems (Review by David Johnson)

bass 

HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC: Israel in Egypt (Review by James A. Altena)

bass 

HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC: Joshua, HWV 64 (Review by Bertil van Boer)

bass 

HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC: Judas Maccabaeus (Review by Ron Salemi)

Eupolemus 

HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC: Judas Maccabaeus (Review by Ron Salemi)

Simon 

HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC: Messiah (Review by Michael Carter)

baritone 

HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC: Messiah (Review by Ron Salemi)

baritone 

HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC: Nell’africane selve, HWV 136a (Review by Bertil van Boer)

bass 

HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC: Rinaldo, HWV 7a (Review by Bertil van Boer)

bass 

HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC: Rodelinda, regina de’ Longobardi (Review by Bernard Jacobson)

Garibaldo 

HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC: Saul (Review by Jonathan Woolf)

Saul 

HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC: Siroe, HWV 24 (Review by Bertil van Boer)

bass 

HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC: Tolomeo, HWV 25 (Review by Bertil van Boer)

bass 

MACMILLAN, JAMES: The Sacrifice (Review by J. F. Weber)

General 

MACMILLAN, JAMES: The Sacrifice (Review by Ronald E. Grames)

General 

MAHLER, GUSTAV: Der Tamboursg’sell (Review by William Kempster)

bass baritone 

MOZART: Requiem (ed. Süssmayr) (Review by Christopher Brodersen)

bass 

MOZART: Requiem (ed. Süssmayr) (Review by J. F. Weber)

bass 

MOZART: Requiem (ed. Süssmayr) (Review by George Chien)

bass 

MOZART: Requiem (Review by Jim Svejda)

bass 

MOZART: Requiem (Review by Huntley Dent)

bass 

MOZART: The Marriage of Figaro (Review by Henry Fogel)

Figaro 

MOZART: Zaide (Review by Ralph V. Lucano)

Osmin 

PFITZNER, HANS: Hussens Kerker (Review by William Kempster)

bass baritone 

PORPORA, NICOLA: Catone, HWV A7 (Review by Bertil van Boer)

bass 

PURCELL, HENRY: Ground in C (Review by Michael Ullman)

bass 

PURCELL, HENRY: In Guilty Night. Plung’d in the Confines of Despair. Awake, Ye Dead. The Earth Trembled. My Op’ning Eyes are Purg’d. With Sick and Famish’d Eyes (Review by Michael Ullman)

bass 

PURCELL, HENRY: Lord, What Is Man. O Solitude. In the Black, Dismal Dungeon of Despair. Lord, I Can Suffer Thy Rebukes (Review by Michael Ullman)

bass 

PURCELL, HENRY: O, I Am Sick of Life. Close Thine Eyes. Funeral Sentences for the Death of Queen Mary II (1695) (Review by Michael Ullman)

bass 

PURCELL, HENRY: Voluntaries (Review by Michael Ullman)

bass 

RICCI, FEDERICO: La prigione di Edimburgo (Review by Joel Kasow)

Tom 

ROSSINI: The Thieving Magpie (Review by Henry Fogel)

Gottardo 

SCHUBERT: Der Sieg. Totengräberlied. Grenzen der Menschkeit (Review by William Kempster)

bass baritone 

SCHUMANN: Der Schatzgräber. Frühlingsfahrt (Review by William Kempster)

bass baritone 

STRAUSS, RICHARD: Gefunden. Nachtgang. Im Spätboot (Review by William Kempster)

bass baritone 

VERDI, GIUSEPPE: Falstaff (Review by Joel Kasow)

Falstaff 

VERDI, GIUSEPPE: Falstaff (Review by James A. Altena)

Falstaff 

WALTON, WILLIAM: Belshazzar's Feast. Crown Imperial. Orb and Sceptre (Review by James Miller)

baritone 

WEILL, KURT: Alles, was ich euch sagte (Review by William Kempster)

bass baritone 

 

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