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Ethel Smyth was one of England’s foremost Victorian composers, and a prominent suffragette. She was the first female composer to be honoured with a Damehood. She studied composition with Carl Reineke in Leipzig (alongside Dvořák, Grieg and Tchaikovsky) and then privately with Heinrich von Herzogenberg (who introduced her to Brahms and Clara Schumann). Her Mass in D is her only largescale religious work, although it was certainly composed for the concert hall rather than the church. Scored for 4 soloists, choir, and orchestra, the Mass in D sets the usual six parts of the mass, but is performed with the Gloria at the end, not second, at the instruction of the composer. Her opera The Wreckers, set in mid-eighteenth-century Cornwall, is considered by some critics to be the ‘most important English opera composed during the period between Purcell and Britten’. The Overture sets the scene wonderfully, as well as introducing the main thematic material to follow. Sakari Oramo and his BBC forces are joined by an outstanding quartet of soloists. © Chandos
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BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sakari Oramo, Conductor, MainArtist - Dame Ethel Smyth, Composer
2019 Chandos Records 2019 Chandos Records
Mass in D (Ethel Smyth)
Ben Johnson, MainArtist, TenorSolo - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sakari Oramo, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Duncan Rock, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Susanna Hurrell, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Catriona Morison, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Dame Ethel Smyth, Composer
2019 Chandos Records 2019 Chandos Records
Ben Johnson, MainArtist, TenorSolo - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sakari Oramo, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Duncan Rock, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Susanna Hurrell, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Catriona Morison, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Dame Ethel Smyth, Composer
2019 Chandos Records 2019 Chandos Records
Ben Johnson, MainArtist, TenorSolo - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sakari Oramo, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Duncan Rock, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Susanna Hurrell, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Catriona Morison, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Dame Ethel Smyth, Composer
2019 Chandos Records 2019 Chandos Records
Ben Johnson, MainArtist, TenorSolo - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sakari Oramo, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Duncan Rock, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Susanna Hurrell, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Catriona Morison, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Dame Ethel Smyth, Composer
2019 Chandos Records 2019 Chandos Records
Ben Johnson, MainArtist, TenorSolo - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sakari Oramo, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Duncan Rock, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Susanna Hurrell, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Catriona Morison, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Dame Ethel Smyth, Composer
2019 Chandos Records 2019 Chandos Records
Ben Johnson, MainArtist, TenorSolo - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sakari Oramo, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Duncan Rock, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Susanna Hurrell, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Catriona Morison, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Dame Ethel Smyth, Composer
2019 Chandos Records 2019 Chandos Records
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Ethel Smyth was one of England’s foremost Victorian composers, and a prominent suffragette. She was the first female composer to be honoured with a Damehood. She studied composition with Carl Reineke in Leipzig (alongside Dvořák, Grieg and Tchaikovsky) and then privately with Heinrich von Herzogenberg (who introduced her to Brahms and Clara Schumann). Her Mass in D is her only largescale religious work, although it was certainly composed for the concert hall rather than the church. Scored for 4 soloists, choir, and orchestra, the Mass in D sets the usual six parts of the mass, but is performed with the Gloria at the end, not second, at the instruction of the composer. Her opera The Wreckers, set in mid-eighteenth-century Cornwall, is considered by some critics to be the ‘most important English opera composed during the period between Purcell and Britten’. The Overture sets the scene wonderfully, as well as introducing the main thematic material to follow. Sakari Oramo and his BBC forces are joined by an outstanding quartet of soloists. © Chandos
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 7 track(s)
- Total length: 01:10:42
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Sakari Oramo, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Susanna Hurrell, Catriona Morison, Ben Johnson, Duncan Rock, BBC Symphony Chorus
- Composer: Ethel Smyth
- Label: Chandos
- Genre: Classical Sacred Vocal Music Masses, Passions, Requiems
2019 Chandos Records 2019 Chandos Records
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