Walter Widdop
Walter Widdop was an English tenor, one of the important British dramatic and oratorio singers of the early twentieth century.
In the Pristine catalogue he appears repeatedly in Albert Coates’s Beethoven and Bach recordings, including the Ninth Symphony and related choral-orchestral material.
Widdop’s singing brought strength, clarity and English choral-symphonic discipline to music requiring both vocal stamina and textual firmn...
BACH (arr Elgar) - Fantasia and Fugue in C minor
BEETHOVEN - Gratulations-Menuett
BEETHOVEN The Creatures of Prometheus - Overture
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 'Choral'
Recorded between 1925 & 1928
Total duration: 78:04
Elsie Suddaby, soprano
Nellie Walker, contralto
Walter Widdop, tenor
Stuart Robinson, bass
Philharmonic Choir
London Symphony Orchestra
Albert Coates, conductor
BACH (arr Elgar) - Fantasia and Fugue in C minor
BEETHOVEN - Gratulations-Menuett
BEETHOVEN The Creatures of Prometheus - Overture
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 'Choral'
TCHAIKOVSKY - Symphony No. 5
TCHAIKOVSKY - Francesca da Rimini
BORODIN - Prince Igor - Ballet
MOZART - Symphony No. 41, 'Jupiter'
MOZART - Der Schauspieldirektor - Overture
BEETHOVEN - Symphony No. 7
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, "Pathétique"
TCHAIKOVSKY March Slave
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
GLINKA Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Coq d'Or - suite
STRAVINSKY Firebird Suite
RAVEL Ma Mère l'Oye - Suite
Music by Glinka, Liadov, Debussy
STRAVINSKY Petrushka Ballet
BORODIN Prince Igor - excerpts
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Czar Sultan - Suite
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV May Night - Overture
MUSSORGSKY Khovanshchina: Persian Dances
Das Rheingold
Die Walküre
Studio recordings, 1926-32
Total duration: 2hr 33:07
Florence Austral ∙ Walter Widdop ∙ Göta Ljungberg
Albert Coates ∙ Leo Blech, conductors
WAGNER The Potted Ring - Volume 3: Götterdämmerung, Motives and Extras
Studio recordings, 1926-31
Total duration: 2hr 23:59 and 60:30
Rudolf Laubenthal ∙ Maartje Offers ∙ Ivar Andrésen
Lauritz Melchior ∙ Friedrich Schorr
Götterdämmerung: Albert Coates ∙ Leo Blech
Appendix: Lawrance Collingwood ∙ Leo Blech ∙ Karl Muck
WAGNER The Potted Ring - Volume One: Das Rheingold, Die Walküre
WAGNER The Potted Ring - Volume Two: Siegfried
WAGNER The Potted Ring - Volume Three: Götterdämmerung, Motives and Extras
Studio recordings, 1926-32
