David Anderson - In the Spirit of Taize - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Viktoriya Dodoka began her musical training in her home city of Krasnodar near the Black Sea, later graduating from the Tchaikovsky State Conservatoire in Moscow. She performed lead roles in a number of productions for the Moscow Opera, among them Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, Violetta in La Traviata, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and Marfa in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride. She has sung solo soprano with the Stuttgart Bach Academy Choir in concert performances of Bach's Magnificat, Handel's Nelson Mass, and Mozart's Requiem. Viktoriya immigrated to New Zealand in 2001 and made her NZ debut soon after, singing the roles of Olympia/Antonia in the Canterbury Opera's production of The Tales of Hoffman.

Following on from their lauded recording of chamber works by their namesake, Lennox Berkeley, the Berkeley Ensemble, celebrating their tenth anniversary, return to Resonus Classics to turn their attention to the music of his son, Michael. In the year of his seventieth birthday, the ensemble record a selection of Michael's chamber works from across the last thirty-five years, including the virtuosic 'Catch Me If You Can' and the Clarinet Quintet. The ensemble is joined by mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron and conductor Dominic Grier for 'Winter Fragments, Sonnet for Orpheus,' and the poignant 'Seven.' Hailed as 'an instinctive collective' (The Strad) the Berkeley Ensemble was formed with the aim of exploring little-known twentieth and twenty-first century British chamber music alongside more established repertoire. It now enjoys a busy concert schedule performing throughout the UK and abroad, and is also much in demand for it's inspiring work in education.

David Leisner - Music of the Human Spirit [COMPACT DISCS] date 07/16/2002