Don Pasquale
The Elixir of Love

The Sunday Telegraph
Don Pasquale

'We should be grateful to Chandos/Moores above all for preserving Andrew Shore's Pasquale, unforgettable in its pomposity, comic timing and, finally, bonhomie .... impeccable diction and profound musicality.'

5 January 2009 
Gramophone

'On stage Shore has this ability to take on a role so completely that he barely needs a costume.'

Gramophone

'I can't think of a performance I have enjoyed more than this one ... it is one of the series' best.'
Lucia of Lammermoor

The Guardian
'This probes the work's ambiguities with greater resonance than many versions in the original language.... there's a sensuality in the sound.. Her madness is shot through with indecency....'

The Guardian
 
'If anyone needs reminding of the mastery of Janet Baker as a singing actress, they should hear these recordings with Mackerras marshalling near ideal casts.'
Janet Baker Sings Mary Stuart

San Francisco Examiner 'With the powerful Rosalind Plowright as Elizabeth I and Sir Charles (Mackerras) in the pit, this is a sensational set ...There is nothing like her (Dame Janet Baker) on the opera stage today.' 

Great Operatic Arias - Barry Banks

Don Pasquale
Ernesto's Serenade 'The night is calm'
Ernesto's Prelude & Aria 'Poor lost Ernesto' - 'I shall go, no more returning'
The Elixir of Love Nemorino's Romance
'Only one teardrop'

The Guardian
Lucia of Lammermoor

'The men.. are excellent. Paul Charles Clarke is a glorious Edgardo, his seductive glamour masking both his lethal temper and disastrous, obsessive perfectionism. As Enrico, Lucia's appalling brother, Alan Opie swivels between bullying and insidious manipulation, while Peter Rose is unctuously hypocritical as Raimondo, the priest whose moral proscriptions lead only to catastrophe. David Parry, conducting, takes the score slowly, generating an atmosphere of oppressive malignancy.'

The Elixir of Love Nemorino`s Romanza - 'I saw the tear...'
Opera News
'....Ford's voice is beautiful, his technique never less than solid, with impeccable enunciation and style.'

Great Operatic Arias - Bruce Ford 1
Great Operatic Arias - Elizabeth Futral

Linda from Chamonix

Linda's Recitative & Cavatina 'I should have hurried!'- 'My soul is filled with love for you'

Great Operatic Arias - Della Jones

 Linda from Chamonix Act I

Linda & Carlo's Love Duet 'Linda! Linda!'

with Barry Banks tenor

Great Operatic Arias -Yvonne Kenny 1

Classic FM Magazine 
The Elixir of Love

'David Parry's flair for Donizetti gives an irresistible glint to his account of The Elixir of Love..The hero, Nemorino, can seem a dimwitted milksop, but Barry Banks' sincerity makes him so likeable that we take his side. The heroine Adina would be regarded as heartless if Mary Plazas weren't singing her so sweetly.. Ashley Holland makes the rival Belcore threatening as well as daft and Andrew Shore puts on a capital comic turn as the quack doctor Dulcamara.'

Dom Sebastian, King of Portugal
Camoëns' Recitative & Romance 'On the African..'
Lucia of Lammermoor
Aria & Cabaletta 'You seem unhappy' - 'Trembling..' -  with Stephen Chaundy & Peter Rose

Lucia of Lammermoor
Aria Finale
'My ancestors lie here..' - 
'Rest in peace . . .'

with Clive Bayley & Geoffrey Mitchell Choir

Great Operatic Arias - Alan Opie
Great Operatic Arias - Dennis O'Neill 1
Great Operatic Arias - Diana Montague 1
Great Operatic Arias - Andrew Shore

 The Elixir of Love Dulcamara's Cavatina Nemorino & Dulcamara's Recitative & Duet Adina and Dulcamara's Duet Act II 
Don Pasquale
Malatesta & Pasquale's Duets Pasquale & Norina's Duet 'Well good evening!..'

Mary Stuart

The Mistress (La favorita) Leonora & Alfonso's Duet 'Ines...' - 'Leonora!'
with Helen Miles & Garry Magee
Lucrezia Borgia
Brindisi 'Oh the secret life..' with Geoffrey Mitchell Choir

The Mistress (La favorite)
 
Leonora's Recitative, Aria and Cabaletta 'Can I believe it? . . .' 'O my beloved . . .' 'I submit to heav'nly powers.'