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...In May, the auctioneer will offer $250mn of works from the late New York arts patron Anne Bass, and now comes news that, in October, it will start to sell the Ann and Gordon Getty collection....
...Joëlle Harvey was a fine choice as the soprano, softer and sympathetic in tone, though young bass-baritone Davóne Tines is as yet short of the vocal authority for the triple role of Herod/Joseph/God....
...Flinders is one of more than 50 islands that make up the Furneaux group, situated in the Bass Strait, between mainland Australia and Tasmania....
...Matthew Rose, the bass, was now the dominating soloist, though Rosemary Joshua also shone in the soprano’s solos....
...The new cycle was written for the bass-baritone Gerald Finley, who performs them here, accompanied by the BSO under James Levine....
...The bass solos are strongly sung by Christopher Purves, with Ingela Bohlin pure-voiced as the soprano soloist and Andrew Tortise not wholly at ease as the tenor....
...The greatly missed mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson was at the height of her powers in 1998 on Wigmore Hall Live (BBC, CD)....
...Trips to South Africa have always yielded a rich haul, from the troubadour Vusi Mahlasela, singing in languages I can’t understand, to the late and very great bass player Sipho Gumede....
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