Herold / Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Fried - Great Comedy Overtures - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

- The flourishing genre of the comic opera had it's roots in18th c. Italian opera buffa, whose irrepressible brio was soontaken up outside the country's borders.- In France it produced opera comique and operetta, andin German-speaking countries Spieloper and Vienneseoperetta.- Some of the world's most popular comic opera overtures,filled with gorgeous tunes, brilliant orchestration and raceto-the-finish endings, are presented here.- They include staples of the concert repertoire such asHerold's dramatic Zampa, the textual delicacy of Wolf-Ferrari's Il segreto di Susanna and the vivid color ofLortzing's Zar und Zimmermann.- The American Conductor, Boston University graduate andmulti-first prize competition winner Lance Friedel, hereconducting the RNSO, currently enjoys an active career inEurope and the US.

Jeanne Cotter - Tender Hearted [COMPACT DISCS] date 07/10/2015

This album brings together music by two English composers who are also good friends -and both born in East Anglia Nicholas Barton in Norfolk in 1950 and Christopher Wright in Suffolk in 1954. Moreover, they share a similar musical language largely tonal, if loosely so, rhythmically alert, transparently but dramatically scored and with a natural feeling for symphonic argument and growth, and a powerful sense of scale. InchMark Forkgen and his versatile chamber choir Canticum are obviously fully committed to Wright's music and have done him proud.Inch (Choir and Organ)