classical music: Sarah Fox

classical music: Sarah Fox

classical music:

Sarah Fox

Fantasia on Christmas Carols/ The First Nowell/ On Christmas Night

Vaughan Williams, City of London Sinfonia/ Joyful Company of Singers/ Sarah Fox/ Roderick Williams, ...

Chandos, 2006

RVW loved Christmas
In the early 1980s, I purchased a used, record club LP of Vaughan Williams' nativity play "The First Nowell." I've played the LP several times each Christmas and hoped eventually for a CD version to appear. This new performance under Richard Hickox's direction should ...

Mozart: The Magic Flute

Simon Keenlyside, Christopher Purves, ...

Chandos, 2005

This 2-CD set soars!
Mozart's Magic Flute has stood on its own merit through the ages and needs no comment from this or any other reviewer. It is an opera written of and in a period where what was expressed made sense to the librettist and the intended audience, and independent of the ...

Vivaldi: Gloria in D (RV589), Dixit Dominus in D (RV594), and Magnificat in G Minor (RV610)

Antonio Vivialdi, Sarah Fox, ...

EMI Classics, 2002

a voice teacher and early music fan
THIS RECORDING IS A MUSICAL TREASURE FOR ALL VIVALDI LOVERS! All three works are conceived on a grand scale, and would have graced important feast days in the Church calendar. The well known Gloria has l2 movements including choruses and two soprano solos and l alto ...

Boccherini · D'Astorga - Stabat Mater / Gritton · Fox · Bickley · Agnew · Harvey · The King's Consort · King

Luigi Boccherini, Emanuele d'Astorga, ...

Hyperion UK, 1999

Fine music, performances and recording
The music on this disc is surprisingly lovely and varied. I say surprisingly because the only other performance of the Boccherini I am familiar with, on Erato, is fairly staid, safe and dull. However, I shouldn't really be surprised as Boccherini is always rewarding in ...

Vaughan Williams: The Sky Shall Be Our Roof
Roderick Williams, Ralph Vaughan Williams, ...

Albion Records, 2008

The first CD issued by Albion Records, The Sky Shall Be Our Roof is comprised of 19 songs from Ralph Vaughan Williams operas. An astonishing 12 of these songs are world premiere recordings, and all are deeply characteristic, noble, and beautiful. Gramophone Editor's Choice March 2008!

Music From Behind the Lines

Coles, Fox, ...

Hyperion UK, 2002

A casualty of war
I cannot recall any case that parallels the dramatic and poignant discovery of Cecil Coles (1888-1918), the Scottish composer who vanished without a trace from the musical world despite his friendship with Gustav Holst and the critical acclaim that followed ...

Boccherini: Stabat Mater; D'Astorga: Stabat Mater [Hybrid SACD]
Peter Harvey, Emanuele d' Astorga, ...

Hyperion UK, 2001

Janácek - The Cunning Little Vixen / Nicholas Hytner · Sir Charles Mackerras · Thomas Allen · Eva Jenis · ...

Thomas Allen (III), Eva Jenis

Image Entertainment, 1999

my two cents of what this opera is about
On repeated viewing I am struck by what I perceive to be the profound message of this work. The opera depicts two separate worlds: the human world and the animal world ("nature") which exist in parallel without any true communication or mutual understanding. Whenever ...