BBC Music Magazine

'This second selection of the great bass singing in his own language focuses on German opera from Mozart to Strauss, with an appropriate bias towards Wagner, in whose works Tomlinson has achieved some of his most significant successes. The voice itself.. (has a) range of colour and dynamics that remains outstanding. Tomlinson has been the Wotan of his day, and the god's final solo from Rhinegold is voiced with an almost intimidating grandeur of tone.

3 December 2008

1 Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio Osmin's Revenge 'When they lead you to the scaffold'
2 Mozart's The Magic Flute Sarastro's Prayer 'O Isis and Osiris, listen' with Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
3 Beethoven's Fidelio Pizarro's Revenge 'Now, now for my victory!' with Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
4 Rocco's Aria 'If you don't have any money'
5 Weber's Der Freischütz Caspar's Song 'On this earth we could not bear'
6 Caspar's Aria 'Go! Go! The fatal die is cast!'
7 Wagner's The Rhinegold Wotan's monologue 'The bridge leads you homeward...' with Colin Lee, tenor & Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano (PMF Scholar)
8 Wagner's The Flying Dutchman Dutchman's Monologue 'The time comes round'
9 Daland's Aria 'Senta, my child, please make this stranger warmly welcome'
10 Wagner's The Mastersingers of Nuremberg Pogner's Monologue 'Now hear and attend me well...'
11 Hans Sachs's Flieder Monologue 'My elder tree....'
12 Hans Sachs's Wahn Monologue 'Mad, mad....'
13 R. Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier Baron Ochs's Waltz 'Look for my glasses....' with Elizabeth Vaughan, contralto
14 Lortzing's The Armourer Hans Stadlinger's Song 'I used to be young with a fine head of hair'

 

CHAN 3076
Great Operatic Arias - John Tomlinson 2

London Philharmonic Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra (tracks 4, 9 & 11)
David Parry - conductor

Recorded in Blackheath Halls, London 14-16 & 18 December 1998 - Der Rosenkavalier;
16-17 October 1999 - Daland's Aria and Flieder Monologue from The Flying Dutchman, and 'If you don't have any money' from Fidelio; 24-27 September 2001 - the rest
Producer - Brian Couzens, Sound engineer - Ralph Couzens
Assistant engineers - Christopher Brooke & Michael Common

His versatility comes through in two solos from The Flying Dutchman, both incidentally sung in his own translation, as are five other items...'