DIMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH  DESDEMONA’S LAMENT c.1951

[WORLD PREMIÈRE RECORDING ON ORCHID CLASSICS with Matthew Jorysz piano]

 

EXCERPT FROM THE SPHINX BY NIKOLAI MYASKOVSKY. TWELVE SONGS BY BAL’MONT OP.2 No.1

[WORLD PREMIÈRE RECORDING ON ORCHID CLASSICS with Matthew Jorysz piano]

HANDEL ARIA ‘Ch’io Parta’  PARTENOPE HWV 27. LIVE PERFORMANCE MALTA EARLY MUSIC AND OPERA FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 2022

 

 

EP PERSIAN LOVE SONGS  ANTON RUBINSTEIN

LISTEN TO A PERSIAN LOVE SONG. ANTON RUBINSTEIN OP.35 NO.4 ON SPOTIFY HERE:

  

DEBUT CD ON ORCHID CLASSICS SPHINX

4.5/5
LIMELIGHT MAGAZINE, AUSTRALIA
EDITOR’S CHOICE

“Blessed with a rich, burgundy tone, he’s especially powerful in the middle to lower register but possesses easy access to passing top notes. He also has admirable control over a gentle vibrato with which he is able to warm a lyrical line.’’ Clive Paget, Limelight Magazine

OPERA TODAY

“There’s more scene-and-mood painting in ‘Stalactites’, [Taneyev], in which bitter tears drip from the frozen icicles, a melancholy, hypnotic fall of chilling suffering. Though sombre, McLaren’s vocal line incorporates telling nuance – of dynamics, colour and pulse – and warmth to balance the general funereal ambience. This is beautiful singing, somehow both tragic and uplifting…” Claire Seymour, Opera Today 

BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE

“A huge range of musical discoveries is offered by this recital…McLaren’s rich and sombre voice is perfectly suited to this heart-on-sleeve pathos…the discovery of these songs is commendably adventurous…This feast of Slavic gloom…” Natasha Loges, BBC Music Magazine 

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Moonlit Night on the Neva River 1898 Lev Lagorio