John Wakefield
John Wakefield was a British tenor, active in opera and concert repertory during the post-war period. He was associated with English opera and British repertory.
In the Pristine catalogue he appears in Delius’s A Village Romeo and Juliet under Meredith Davies, with Sadler’s Wells forces.
Wakefield’s singing belonged to the British lyric-tenor tradition, where text, line and natural dramatic delivery are central.
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DELIUS A Village Romeo and Juliet
DELIUS The Walk to the Paradise Garden (bonus track)*
Live performance broadcast, 1962
*Live radio broadcast, 1945
Total duration: 1hr 49:33
Vrenchen – Elsie Morison
The Dark Fiddler – Neil Easton
Manz - Lawrence Felley
Marti - Donald McIntyre
Meredith Davies, conductor
Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Sadler's Wells Opera
*Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
*Blue Network Symphony Orchestra