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Becker was primarily a composer of songs and choral music. Please see this thread:
https://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,3817.0.html

Spyres has been taking on a lot of heavy repertoire in recent times - I believe he's about to sing Lohengrin, for example. I'd be prepared to give the new set a try if I thought the rest of the cast was up to the considerable demands of L'Africaine, but the excerpts at Presto sound very 'average' to me - in an opera in which world-class vocalism is required.

I won't be abandoning my Blu-Ray with Domingo and Verrett (two of the greatest singers of their era) anytime soon, but I appreciate that I'm very picky- and always have been: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCFw51kdApg

Great. It's a date!

I've avoided it, Mark, both because Spyres doesn't have the 'heft' for the role and because the supporting cast isn't up to scratch. Of course, I'm notoriously fussy when it comes to good singing and may well be missing something special here...

Becker's style derives from mainly from Wagner, I think. This may explain your findings.

That's very good news, Fred. Could you please let us know when the CDs can be ordered? Thanks!

Exactly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnpC0vfHMnw

I looked online for a reference to the piece, but without success.

Thanks, Fred. Wir freuen uns darauf!

Nor do I, sadly. However, there is, I am sure, a piece of music very much like VW's Tallis Fantasia written (I think) by an American composer. Trouble is, I can't remember who.

My guess would be something similar.

Of Thieriot's contemporaries I'd completely forgotten about Ernst Rudorff (1840-1916) whose terrific 3rd Symphony was first performed in 1911.

...dating from 1826, this will be performed under Martyn Brabbins at the Barbican, London, this coming Friday, 10th May:
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2024/event/bbc-symphony-orchestrabrabbins-old-pictures-new-worlds

A job for someone like Martin Yates, perhaps?

Oh dear, that's a blow for them. Thanks for the info, Mark.