| 1 CD |
€ 19.95
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| Label Signum Classics |
UPC 0635212096628 |
Catalogue number SIGCD 966 |
Release date 08 May 2026 |
Educated at Giggleswick School, the University of London, and Royal College of Music, soprano Sarah Fox is a winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Award and the John Christie Award, and an Honorary Fellow of Royal Holloway College, the University of London. She has sung major roles including at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Salzburg Festival, Gran Teatro del Liceu, Bayerische Staatsoper, Royal Danish Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Welsh National Opera and Opera North. Roles have included Micaëla (Carmen), Asteria (Tamerlano), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Servilia (La clemenza di Tito), Ilia (Idomeneo), Woglinde (Der Ring des Nibelungen), Mimì (La bohème) and Ellen Orford (Peter Grimes).
Sarah has appeared in concert with many leading orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, BBC Symphony, Hallé, City of Birmingham Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, Vienna Tonkunstler, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Basque National Orchestra, Concerto Koln, English Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players and Camerata Salzburg. She has performed many times at the BBC Proms, Edinburgh International Festival, and Three Choirs Festival, and is a regular guest at London’s Wigmore Hall. She has collaborated with many leading conductors, including Simon Rattle, Lorin Maazel, Mark Elder, Andrew Litton, Vasily Petrenko, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Charles Mackerras, Andrew Manze, John Wilson, Joana Carneiro, Robert Treviño, Ivor Bolton and Richard Hickox. She is a regular soloist on “Friday Night Is Music Night” on BBC Radio 2, was a judge on BBC 2 Television's The Choir, and has performed with Rufus Wainwright in Europe and Hong Kong.
Her substantial discography includes many Gramophone Award nominations and "Editor's Choice" and BBC Music Magazine "Choice" accolades. Recordings include Mozart’s Il Re Pastore (Aminta), two editions of songs by Poulenc (Hyperion and Signum), "The Cole Porter Songbook", Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 under Charles Mackerras and Lorin Maazel (both with the Philharmonia Orchestra), "That’s Entertainment" with the John Wilson Orchestra under John Wilson, English Lyrics by Parry, Mozart’s Requiem with the London Mozart Players, Vaughan Williams’s Dona Nobis Pacem with the Colorado Symphony and Chorus under Andrew Litton, Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic under Andrew Manze, Parry's oratorios Prometheus Unbound and the world premiere recording of Judith (title-role) with the London Mozart Players and Crouch End Festival Chorus under William Vann, and the world premiere recording of Nimrod Borenstein’s Shakespeare Songs (English Chamber Orchestra).
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose actual name is Joannes Chrysotomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a composer, pianist, violinist and conductor from the classical period, born in Salzburg. Mozart was a child prodigy. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. Along with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven, Mozart is considered to be one of the most influential composers of all of music's history. Within the classical tradition, he was able to develop new musical concepts which left an everlasting impression on all the composers that came after him. Together with Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven he is part of the First Viennese School. At 17, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position. From 1763 he traveled with his family through all of Europe for three years and from 1769 he traveled to Italy and France with his father Leopold after which he took residence in Paris. On July 3rd, 1778, his mother passed away and after a short stay in Munich with the Weber family, his father urged him to return to Salzburg, where he was once again hired by the Bishop. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his death.
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