Friday 23 March 2011
John Tomlinson, bass and David Owen Norris, piano
Programme
| Britten | Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Opus 22 |
| Wolf | Drei Gedichte von Michelangelo |
| Shostakovich | Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarotti, Opus 145 (Original version for voice) |
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John Tomlinson was born in Lancashire. He gained a
B.Sc. in Civil Engineering at Manchester University before winning a
scholarship to the Royal Manchester College of Music. He was awarded
a C.B.E. in 1997 and knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours of
2005.
John Tomlinson has sung regularly with English National Opera since 1974 and with the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, since 1977 and has also appeared with all the other leading British opera companies. He sang at the Bayreuth Festival for eighteen consecutive seasons. Other engagements include Geneva, Lisbon, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin (Deutsche Oper and Deutsche Staatsoper), Dresden, Hamburg, Munich, Vienna and Bilbao and the Festivals of Orange, Aix-en-Provence, Salzburg, Edinburgh and the Maggio Musicale, Florence.
John Tomlinson has a large concert repertoire and has sung with all the leading British orchestras and in Germany, Italy, Belgium, Holland, France, Spain, Denmark and the USA.
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David Owen Norris is one of the most innovative and
brilliant pianists of our generation, being an authority and leading
performer on early pianos, rare piano concertos (especially those by
20th century English composers), as well as being the pianist of
choice for many world-class singers. He has recently performed
fortepiano concertos in Toronto and Yale; accompanied David
Wilson-Johnson, Philip Langridge and Sir John Tomlinson; and
received a Gramophone recommendation for his new CD recording of
Montague Phillips Piano Concertos with the BBC Concert Orchestra.
'This Michelangelo themed recital by bass Sir John Tomlinson and pianist David Owen Norris was stage performance at its most noble and, at the same time, it was most enjoyable....I was overjoyed by this concert and even burst into tears of joy' MusicalCriticism.com 2010
Visit John Tomlinson's website.
Visit David Owen Norris' website.