Martyn Hill
Martyn Hill is one of the most distinguished British tenors on the international scene as an opera singer, recitalist, and concert artist. He has appeared at major international venues and is comfortable both in standard repertory and in period performance styles, and has a command of the most advanced modern performing styles.
He is well known for his performances of the many tenor works by Benjamin Britten. He has sung in the War Requiem with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under Edo de Waart and the Los Angeles Philharmonic with André Previn, and the Spring Symphony with the Hallé Orchestra under Kent Nagano. He has sung and recorded Les illuminations and the Serenade.
He sang the complete song cycles of Michael Tippett in the presence of the conductor on Tippett's 90th birthday and recorded them for Hyperion. In 1995, he sang the three great Schubert song cycles (Die schöne Müllerin, Winterreise, and Schwanengesang) on three consecutive evenings at St. John's Smith Square in London. He has sung for staged performances of Winterreise, and also sang in Hans Zender's orchestral arrangement of the great Schubert cycle in Frankfurt with Ensemble Modern.
Most of his notable operatic performances are in early and modern opera. Examples of the former are Il ritorno di Ulisse in Patria, in the role of Eumetes (in Innsbruck, Tokyo, Athens, Florence, and Cremona) and as Admète in Alceste in Montpellier. He has sung the title role of Britten's Peter Grimes, Red Whiskers in Billy Budd and Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw. In Boston he was Tom Rakewell in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress and at Royal Festival Hall sang as Oedipus Rex in Stravinsky's opera-oratorio. He even sang the part of Mozart in Rimsky-Korsakov's Mozart and Salieri and was Achilles in Tippett's King Priam. He created the title role of Sandeep Bhagwati's Ramanujan at the Munich Bienniale.
His concert appearances include Schoenberg's Von heute auf morgen with Boulez and the Ensemble InterContemporain, Lutoslawski's Paroles tissés, Nono's Il canto sospeso, and Holliger's Erde und Himmel, and the world premiere of Elliott Carter's In Sleep, in Thunder. He has recorded for EMI, Hyperion, Chandos, Harmonia Mundi, Erato, Vanguard, and Virgin Classics.
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Dutilleux: Complete Orchestral Works
Yan Pascal Tortelier, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Martyn Hill, Neal Davies, Olivier Charlier, Boris Pergamenschikow
Symphonies - Released by Chandos on Sep 1, 2000
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Dutilleux: Violin Concerto and other Orchestral Works
Yan Pascal Tortelier, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Martyn Hill, Neal Davies, Olivier Charlier
Symphonies - Released by Chandos on Aug 1, 1996
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Spring Symphony - Welcome Ode - Psaume 150
Chamber Music - Released by Chandos on Jul 1, 2013
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Bax: Symphony No. 7, 4 Songs
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Martyn Hill, Bryden Thomson
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Chandos on Aug 1, 1988
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Anon in Love / Facade Settings / A Song for the Lord (English Song, Vol. 1)
Graham Johnson, Martyn Hill, Felicity Lott, Craig Ogden
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Naxos on Nov 19, 2002
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Finzi: Dies natalis, Clarinet Concerto & Farewell to Arms
Martyn Hill, Michael Collins, City Of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on Sep 17, 2021
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Œuvres orchestrales (Volume 8)
Anne Williams-King, Martyn Hill, Lynore McWhirter, Brighton Festival Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley
Symphonic Music - Released by Chandos on Jan 1, 1989
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Cherubini: Mass in A Major & Chant sur la mort de Haydn
Kolner Rundfunkchor, Martyn Hill, Paolo Barbacini, Marilyn Schmiege, Cappella Coloniensis, Gabriele Ferro
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released by CapriccioNR on Jan 6, 2017
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Œuvres orchestrales (Volume 6)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Martyn Hill, Richard Nunn, Margaret Fingerhut, Bryden Thomson
Symphonic Music - Released by Chandos on Nov 1, 2003
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Cherubini: Mass in A major - Chant sur la mort de Haydn
WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, Marilyn Schmiege, Cappella Coloniensis, Martyn Hill, Gabriele Ferro, Paolo Barbacini
Classical - Released by CapriccioNR on Mar 12, 2010
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Coprario: Songs Of Mourning; Consort Music (Australian Eloquence Digital)
Martyn Hill, The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on Jan 25, 2011
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A French Collection
Martyn Hill, Graham Johnston, Albert Ferber
Classical - Released by Meridian Records on Jan 23, 2007
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Blake: Chamber Music
Classical - Released by Meridian Records on Feb 3, 2010
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Weber: Lieder
Martyn Hill, Christopher Hogwood
Classical - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on Jan 1, 1976
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Bax: Symphony No. 7 & Four Songs
Bryden Thomson, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Martyn Hill
Symphonies - Released by Chandos on Aug 1, 1988
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Hughes: Dewi Sant (St. David)
Yvonne Kenny, Martyn Hill, David Wilson-Johnson, BBC Welsh Chorus, BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released by Chandos on Jul 1, 1990
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The Grainger Edition, Vol. 7 - Songs for Tenor
Martyn Hill, Pénélope Thwaites
Mélodies - Released by Chandos on Mar 1, 1998
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War's Embers: English Songs of World War 1
Martyn Hill, Stephen Varcoe, George Michael
Classical - Released by Hyperion on Mar 1, 1988
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Hahn: À Chloris, Chansons grises & Other Songs
Classical - Released by Hyperion on May 1, 1988
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Schubert: Hyperion Song Edition 10 – Schubert in 1815, Vol. 2
Classical - Released by Hyperion on Feb 1, 1991
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Finzi: Earth and Air and Rain & Other Settings of Thomas Hardy
Martyn Hill, Stephen Varcoe, Clifford Benson
Classical - Released by Hyperion on Jan 1, 1990
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