Ethel Smyth at Carnegie Hall

[edurban]

Dame Ethel Smyth's Mass in D will be performed by the St. Cecilia Chorus at Carnegie on Sunday, April 14, 2013.  A wonderful, characteristically full-blooded piece with some rarely encountered Tchaikovsky rounding out the program:

http://www.ceciliachorusny.org/

David

[Jimfin]

That is great news indeed! We never seem to hear anything of Smyth in the recording world these days. I long for a recording of 'The Boatswain's Mate' and 'The Prison'

[scarpia]

I see that the Laval Symphony in Quebec is performing the Smyth Mass next year in May. But they are saying it is the North American premiere. Oops.
http://www.osl.qc.ca/site-web-de-losl/concerts/hors-serie/memoires-feminines.html

Also on the program the rarely performed Hiob Cantata by Fanny Mendelssohn.

[minacciosa]

Excerpts from Smyth's The Prison will be performed in NYC in July.

[mikehopf]

You can get The Boatswain's Mate on the Digital Gramophone label or download it from Qobuz.

Other operas on the same label include: Schwanda the Bagpiper; Abu Hassan; Djamileh... all sung in English. They are probably 1950s recordings of English National Opera.

[Jimfin]

The Boatswain's Mate is a brand-new recording, though.

[Jimfin]

Sorry, I was mistaken, the version of the Boatswain's Mate on Digital is an old BBC recording. However, a brand new recording has been made and is supposed to be released in June by Retrospect Opera. They say they will be registering with Amazon.