Sarah Connolly
VIVAT104
Monteverdi: Heaven and Earth
Carolyn Sampson, Rebecca Outram, Julie Cooper soprano
Sarah Connolly, Diana Moore mezzosoprano
Charles Daniels, John Bowen, James Gilchrist tenor
Robert Evans, Michael George bass
The King’s Consort
Robert King conductor
“Peerlessly performed and faultlessly recorded”
(The Independent)
“If I were only able to have one disc of works by Monteverdi this would have to be the one.”
(The Classical Reviewer)
VIVAT114
Decades: A Century of Song – Volume 2 (1820-1830)
John Mark Ainsley tenor
Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano
Christopher Maltman baritone
Anush Hovhannisyan soprano
Robin Tritschler tenor
Luis Gomes tenor
Malcolm Martineau piano
“Beguiling and deliciously nuanced”
(The Scotsman)
“Thrillingly caught by the flame-toned Armenian soprano Anush Hovhannisyan … Sarah Connolly’s deliriously impassioned singing”
(Gramophone)
“Malcolm Martineau is superb, technically immaculate and consistently imaginative”
(BBC Music Magazine)
“A perceptively assembled and uncommonly interesting survey of art songs”
(MusicWeb International)