The Art of Nance Grant
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Label: Melba
Cat No: MR30113536
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 19th November 2012
Contents
Works
Fidelio, op.72Charity
Do not go, my love
Miranda
Music I heard with you
Elijah, op.70
Artists
Nance Grant (soprano)Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
Elizabethan Melbourne Orchestra (Orchestra Victoria)
Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra
Sydney Philharmonia Choir and Orchestra
West Australian Symphony Orchestra
Conductors
Richard DivallEdward Downes
Leif Segerstam
Peter Seymour
Dalia Atlas
Works
Fidelio, op.72Charity
Do not go, my love
Miranda
Music I heard with you
Elijah, op.70
Artists
Nance Grant (soprano)Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
Elizabethan Melbourne Orchestra (Orchestra Victoria)
Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra
Sydney Philharmonia Choir and Orchestra
West Australian Symphony Orchestra
Conductors
Richard DivallEdward Downes
Leif Segerstam
Peter Seymour
Dalia Atlas
About
Nance Grant chose to stay close to her family in Australia rather than pursue an international career, even though Sir Edward Downes insisted he could ‘fill her books’ with performances in Britain and Europe. So this double album offers those who never had the opportunity to hear her, the gift of discovering a voice of magnitude and generosity, and for those who grew up hearing her on stage, the chance to reacquaint themselves with her artistry.
The original tapes from radio broadcasts of the 1960s and ’70s have been carefully restored to give more than a hint of the majesty of Nance Grant in a characteristic range of repertoire. The recordings represent significant landmarks in the development of opera in Australia: the emerging Victorian State Opera’s enormously successful Idomeneo, re di Creta and Maria Stuarda under the direction of Richard Divall; Australian Opera’s Ariadne auf Naxos, Fidelio and Tannhäuser with Sir Edward Downes; and one of the first of the Australian Opera/ABC collaborations presenting concert performances of Wagner operas, with Grant as Sieglinde in Die Walküre conducted by Leif Segerstam.
The programme also pays homage to Nance’s considerable concert career, including a complete song recital - Grieg, Richard Hageman and Richard Strauss - with pianist Geoffrey Parsons, Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, and an excerpt from Mendelssohn’s Elijah.
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