Susan Gritton
Susan Gritton is an English soprano who made her breakthrough to singing principal roles in 1999.
After studying botany at Oxford and London Universities she moved her avocational voice training up to a professional level, then took up singing as a career. She first came to prominence when she won the coveted Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Award in 1994.
This resulted in her solo recital debut at London's Wigmore Hall, with Eugene Asti as accompanist. She joined Graham Johnson in the International Songmakers' series, and made extensive appearances in recital throughout England, especially in summer festivals, appearing at the Lichfield, Arundel, Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Harrowgate, and City of London Festivals, as well as in the Salzburg Mozartwoche. In 1996 she was invited to appear three times in the BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts. One of her early festival appearances was at the Istanbul Festival where she sang the part of Blondchen in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail in the city where the story is set.
The first few years in her operatic career were in smaller and character parts, such as the First Niece in Britten's Peter Grimes, Frasquita in Bizet's Carmen, Clarine and Thalie in Rameau's Platée, Xenia in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Sister Constance in Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites, the Mermaid in Weber's Oberon, and Tiny in Britten's Paul Bunyan. She sang Belinda in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at the Berlin Staatsoper, Fulvia in Handel's Ezio with the King's Consort in the Théâtre des Champs Elysée of Paris, Atalanta in Handel's Xerxes at the English National Opera, the Governess in Britten's The Turn of the Screw and Lucia in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia in the Aldeburgh Festival under Steuart Bedford's direction, Susanna in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro and Zerlina in Don Giovanni for the Glyndebourne Festival and Touring Operas.
Gritton became known as a reliable recording artist early in her career. On the Tring label she sang the soprano part in Górecki's Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs), the part of Miss Wordsworth in the Collins Classics recording under Steuart Bedford of Britten's Albert Herring, a set of Holst songs for the same label, Vivaldi's Ottone in Villa on Chandos with Hickox conducting, several Purcell discs, sacred music of Handel and Handel's Deborah and Occasional Oratorio with the King's Consort on Hyperion, and, on Deutsche Grammophon, Handel's Solomon (as the Queen of Sheba) and Messiah as well as Beethoven's little-known Vesta's Feuer. Her first solo recital disc was a collection of songs by Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel on Hyperion, and her first operatic lead was as Handel's Theodora with Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort & Players for Deutsche Grammophon's Archiv label. She also recorded the Purcell/Britten realizations on Hyperion with Graham Johnson.
For the 1999 - 2000 season she received a contract as a principal singer at the English National Opera. Her debuts in lead roles in that capacity were as Pamina in The Magic Flute and the title role in Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen, as well as appearances as Drusilla in Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea and Hero in Berlioz's Beatrice et Benedict.
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Holst: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3
Sir Andrew Davis, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Susan Gritton, BBC Symphony Chorus, Stephen Jackson
Chorwerk (für den Chor) - Erschienen bei Chandos am 01.10.2013
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Elgar: The Longed-for Light
The BBC Concert Orchestra, Simon Callow, Susan Gritton, John Wilson
Klassik - Erschienen bei SOMM Recordings am 13.11.2012
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Hummel: Mass in E-Flat Major, Te Deum & Quod in orbe
Richard Hickox, Collegium Musicum, Susan Gritton, Ann Murray, James Gilchrist, Stephen Varcoe
Messen, Passionen, Requiems - Erschienen bei Chandos am 01.10.2004
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G. F. Händel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Oper - Erschienen bei Farao Classics am 01.08.2012
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Messe du Couronnement
Geistliche Vokalmusik - Erschienen bei Chandos am 01.03.2012
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Vaughan Williams: Overture to The Wasps & A Sea Symphony
Richard Hickox, London Symphony Orchestra, Susan Gritton, Gerald Finley, London Symphony Chorus
Symphonien - Erschienen bei Chandos am 01.02.2007
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Vedic Hymns / Four Songs, Op. 35 / Humbert Wolfe Settings (English Song, Vol. 6)
Susan Gritton, Christopher Maltman, Philip Langridge, Louisa Fuller, Steuart Bedford
Vokalmusik (weltlich und geistlich) - Erschienen bei Naxos am 07.09.1998
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Hubert Parry: 12 Sets of English Lyrics, Vol. 1
Mélodies (England) - Erschienen bei SOMM Recordings am 08.01.2016
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Gorecki: Symphony No. 3; Three Pieces in Olden Style
Susan Gritton, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Simonov
Klassik - Erschienen bei Musical Concepts am 11.05.2010
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Bach: Lutheran Masses, Vol. 1
Purcell Quartet, Susan Gritton, Robin Blaze, Mark Padmore, Peter Harvey
Messen, Passionen, Requiems - Erschienen bei Chandos am 01.05.1999
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Concertos sacrés & Musique pour clavecin
Susan Gritton, Paul Agnew, Stephen Varcoe, Julian Podger, Robert Woolley, Purcell Quartet
Vokalmusik (weltlich und geistlich) - Erschienen bei Chandos am 01.10.1999
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A Sea Symphony - The Wasps Overture
London Symphony Orchestra, Susan Gritton, Richard Hickox, Gerald Finley, London Symphony Chorus
Klassik - Erschienen bei Chandos am 01.02.2007
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Concertos et Cantates pour Noël
Collegium Musicum, Susan Gritton, Collegium Musicum 90 Chorus, Simon Standage
Geistliche Vokalmusik - Erschienen bei Chandos am 01.09.2008
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Messe en ré mineur - Salve Regina
Susan Gritton, Pamela Helen Stephen, Mark Padmore, Stephen Varcoe, Collegium Musicum, Richard Hickox
Geistliche Vokalmusik - Erschienen bei Chandos am 01.10.2005
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Susan Gritton chante Britten, Finzi & Delius
Klassik - Erschienen bei Chandos am 27.04.2010
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Britten Abroad
Iain Burnside, Mark Padmore, Susan Gritton
Klassik - Erschienen bei Signum Classics am 01.01.1970
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Fanny Mendelssohn (Fanny Hensel): Lieder
Klassik - Erschienen bei Hyperion am 01.01.2000
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LCO Live - Rossini/Mozart/Beethoven
London Chamber Orchestra, Susan Gritton
Klassik - Erschienen bei Signum Records am 10.05.2010
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Susan Gritton sings Medtner - Goethe Lieder
Mélodies - Erschienen bei Chandos am 01.03.2004
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Clara Schumann: The Complete Lieder
Susan Gritton, Stephan Loges, Eugene Asti
Klassik - Erschienen bei Hyperion am 01.01.2002
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