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Topic “Choral and Opera”

Dame Ethel Smyth: Mass in D

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Eiddwen Harrhy, soprano; Janis Hardy, alto; Dan Dressen, tenor; James Bohn, bass; Chorus of the Plymouth Music Series with orchestra; Philip Brunelle, conductor. British feminist Ethel Smyth's epic Mass in D (1891, revised 1925), Mrs Waters' Aria from her comic opera The Boatswain's Mate, and her anthem to the suffragette movement, March of the Women.

Paul Bunyan

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Benjamin Britten, W. H. Auden

James Lawless, Pop Wagner, Elisabeth Comeaux, Dan Dressen, Vern Sutton, soloists; Plymouth Music Series Festival Chorus with orchestra; Philip Brunelle, conductor. Winner of the 1988 British Gramophone Award for Best Opera Recording.


The Tender Land - 2 CD Set

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Elisabeth Comeaux, Janis Hardy, LeRoy Lehr, James Bohn; Plymouth Music Series Festival Chorus with orchestra; Philip Brunelle, conductor.
Aaron Copland's opera about coming of age in the 1930s. "From the party scene to the soaring love duet, The Tender Land is unfailingly inspired." — Musical America

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