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Performer: David Wilson-Johnson DAVIES, PETER MAXWELL: Black Pentecost... (Peter Maxwell Davies) (Review by Ronald E. Grames) | baritone | ADAMS, STEPHEN: Nirvana (Review by John Bauman) | baritone | BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: St. John Passion, BWV245 (Review by Ralph V. Lucano) | baritone | BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN: St. John Passion, BWV245 (Review by Ralph V. Lucano) | Jesus | BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN: Missa solemnis (Review by James A. Altena) | bass | BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN: Symphonies Nos. 1–9 (Review by James A. Altena) | bass baritone | BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN: Symphonies (Review by Christopher Abbot) | bass baritone | BERKELEY, MICHAEL: Or Shall We Die? (Review by John Ditsky) | baritone | BERLIOZ: Béatrice et Benedict (Review by Adrian Corleonis) | Somarone | BERLIOZ: La Damnation de Faust—Légende dramatique, op. 24 (Review by Adrian Corleonis) | baritone | BERLIOZ: La Damnation de Faust—Légende dramatique, op. 24 (Review by Adrian Corleonis) | Mephistopheles | BIRTWISTLE: Punch and Judy (Review by John Ditsky) | baritone | BIRTWISTLE: Punch and Judy (Review by John Ditsky) | Choregos | BIRTWISTLE: Punch and Judy (Review by Paul Moor) | Choregos | BIRTWISTLE: Punch and Judy (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz) | Choregos | BIRTWISTLE: Punch and Judy (Review by Colin Clarke) | Choregos/Jack Ketch | BIRTWISTLE: Punch and Judy (Review by John Ditsky) | Jack Ketch | BIRTWISTLE: Punch and Judy (Review by Paul Moor) | Jack Ketch | BIRTWISTLE: Punch and Judy (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz) | Jack Ketch | BOUGHTON: The Immortal Hour (Review by Anthony D. Coggi) | baritone | BOUGHTON: The Immortal Hour (Review by David Johnson) | baritone | BOUGHTON: The Immortal Hour (Review by Anthony D. Coggi) | Eochaidh | BOUGHTON: The Immortal Hour (Review by David Johnson) | Eochaidh | BRAHMS, JOHANNES: Ein deutsches Requiem, op. 45 (Review by Ralph V. Lucano) | baritone | BRIAN: The Cenci (Review by Henry Fogel) | Count Cenci | BRIAN: The Cenci (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz) | Count Cenci | BRIDGE, FRANK: The Christmas Rose (Review by Robert McColley) | bass baritone | BRIDGE, FRANK: The Christmas Rose (Review by Robert McColley) | three shepherds | BRIDGE, FRANK: The Christmas Rose—Opera (Review by John Ditsky) | bass baritone | BRIDGE, FRANK: The Christmas Rose—Opera (Review by John Ditsky) | Shepherds | BRITTEN: Peter Grimes (Review by Ivan Katz) | Hobson | CAPEL: Love, Could I Only Tell Thee (Review by John Bauman) | baritone | DAVIES, PETER MAXWELL: Black Pentecost. Stone Litany (Runes from a House of the Dead) (Review by Benjamin Pernick) | baritone | DAVIES, PETER MAXWELL: Taverner (Review by Carson Cooman) | Jester | ELGAR: Caractacus, op. 35. Severn Suite (Version for Full Orchestra), op. 87a (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz) | baritone | ELGAR: The Kingdom, op. 51. Sospiri, op. 70. Sursum Corda, op. 11 (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz) | bass | FAURÉ, GABRIEL: Requiem. Cantique de Jean Racine. Tu es Petrus. Tantum ergo (Review by Ronald E. Grames) | baritone | GLANERT: Requiem for Hieronymus Bosch (Review by Joe Cadagin) | narrator | GRAINGER: Folk Song Arrangements (Review by John Bauman) | baritone | GRAINGER: Jungle Book (Review by Joel Kasow) | baritone | GRAINGER: Shallow Brown. Kipling Settings (Review by Joel Kasow) | baritone | HADLEY, PATRICK: The Trees So High (Review by Paul A. Snook) | baritone | HALSEY: A Song of Vermeland. Six Dukes Went A-fishin'. Irish Tune from County Deny. O Mistress Mine. Mo Nig-hean Dhu. Mary Thomson. Australian Up-Country Song. There Was a Pig Went Out to Dig (Review by John Bauman) | baritone | HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC: Belshazzar (Review by Nicholas Deutsch) | bass baritone | HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC: Belshazzar (Review by Nicholas Deutsch) | Gobrias | HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC: Belshazzar (Review by James A. Altena) | Gobrias | HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC: Dixit Dominus; Zadok the Priest (Review by J. F. Weber) | bass | HAYDN, FRANZ JOSEPH: Mass No. 9 in D minor (“Lord Nelson“). Te Deum (Review by Mortimer H. Frank) | bass | HAYDN, FRANZ JOSEPH: The Creation (Review by James H. North) | bass | HAYDN, FRANZ JOSEPH: The Seasons (Review by James H. North) | bass | HERRMANN, BERNARD: Moby Dick (Review by Arthur Lintgen) | baritone | HERRMANN, BERNARD: Sinfonietta (Review by Arthur Lintgen) | baritone | HOLD: The Image Stays. River Songs. Voices from the Orchard (Review by Paul Ingram) | baritone | HOLST, GUSTAV: At the Boar's Head (Review by John Ditsky) | baritone | HOLST, GUSTAV: At the Boar's Head (Review by John Ditsky) | Pistol | HONEGGER, ARTHUR: Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher (Review by Huntley Dent) | Dominique | HONEGGER, ARTHUR: Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher (Review by Peter J. Rabinowitz) | speaker | HUGHES, ARWEL: Saint David—Oratorio (Review by John Bauman) | baritone | JAMES, JOSEPH: Requiem after J. S. Bach (Review by David Denton) | baritone | JOHNSON, WILSON: The Sprig of Thyme. Six Dukies Went A-fishin'. Farewell to an Atoll. British Waterside. The Turn Corbies. The Pretty Maid Mäkin' Her Coto. Hard-heared Barbara (H)Ellen (Review by John Bauman) | baritone | LEHMANN, LIZA: At Love's Beginning. There Are Fairies at the Bottom of the Garden (Review by John Bauman) | baritone | LLOYD, GEORGE: John Socman (Review by Henry Fogel) | baritone | LLOYD, GEORGE: John Socman (Review by Henry Fogel) | John Socman | MAHLER, GUSTAV: Symphonies (Review by Benjamin Pernick) | baritone | MAHLER, GUSTAV: Symphonies (Review by Benjamin Pernick) | Pater Ecstaticus | MAHLER, GUSTAV: Symphony No. 8 (Review by Christopher Abbot) | baritone | MAHLER, GUSTAV: Symphony No. 8 (Review by Huntley Dent) | baritone | MARTIN, FRANK: Der Storm (Review by John D. Wiser) | baritone | MARTIN, FRANK: Der Sturm (Review by Martin Anderson) | baritone | MATTHEWS, COLIN: The Great Journeys. Fuga. Night's Mask (Review by Mike Silverton) | baritone | MATTHEWS, COLIN: The Great Journeys. Fuga. Night's Mask (Review by Scott Wheeler) | baritone | MONTEVERDI: Ceremonial Vespers in St. Mark's (Review by J. F. Weber) | baritone | MONTEVERDI: Christmas Vespers. Motets (Review by J. F. Weber) | baritone | MOZART: Mass in C, K. 317 (“Coronation“). Missa Solemnis in C, K. 337 (Review by J. F. Weber) | bass | MOZART: Missa Solemnis. Regina caeli, K 108 (Review by Michael Ullman) | baritone | MOZART: Requiem, K. 626 (Review by George Chien) | bass | MOZART: Vesperae solennes de Dominica. Organ Sonata in C, “Epistle” (Review by Michael Ullman) | baritone | MUSSORGSKY: Night on Bald Mountain (Sorochinsky Fair version) (Review by Jerry Dubins) | baritone | PARRY, HUBERT: The Soul's Ransom—Sinfonia sacra. The Lotos Eaters (Review by John D. Wiser) | bass baritone | PURCELL, HENRY: Odes for Queen Mary (Review by Michael Ullman) | bass | PURCELL, HENRY: The Fairy Queen (Review by Brian Robins) | bass | PURCELL, HENRY: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Review by Eric Van Tassel) | bass | QUILTER: Loves Philosophy, Op. 3, No. 1. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Op. 3, No. 2. Autumn Evening, Op. 14, No. 1. Slumber Song. To Wine and Beauty, Op. 18, No. 1 Go, Lovely Rose, Op. 24, No. 3. An Old Carol, Op. 25, No. 3. Five Jacobean Lyrics, Op. 28. Drooping Wings. The Walled-in Garden. A Song at Parting. To Julia, Op. 8. Three Shakespeare Songs, Op. 6. Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes. Over the Mountains. The Jolly Miller. Barbara Allen. Three Poor Mariners (Review by Vincent Alfano) | baritone | QUILTER: The Walled-in Garden and Other Songs (Review by Vincent Alfano) | baritone | RACHMANINOFF: The Bells, Op. 35. Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 (Review by Vincent Alfano) | baritone | RACHMANINOFF: The Bells, op. 35. Vocalise, op. 34/14. Aleko (Review by Richard A. Kaplan) | baritone | RAVEL: L’Heure espagnole. Rapsodie espagnole (Review by James Miller) | Don Inigo Gomez | RONALD, LANDON: Down in the Forest (Review by John Bauman) | baritone | RUBBRA, EDMUND: Four Medieval Latin Lyrics for Baritone and String Orchestra, op. 32. Five Spenser Sonnets for Tenor and String Orchestra. Amoretti (Second Series of Five Spenser Sonnets for Tenor and String Quartet), op. 43. Sinfonietta for Large String Orchestra, op. 163 (Review by William Zagorski) | baritone | RUBENS: Two Little Chicks (Review by John Bauman) | baritone | SAINTON: The Island (Review by Paul A. Snook) | baritone | SANDERSON: The Voyagers (Review by John Bauman) | baritone | SCHOENBERG, ARNOLD: A Survivor from Warsaw (Review by Ronald E. Grames) | narrator | SCHOENBERG, ARNOLD: A Survivor from Warsaw (Review by James H. North) | narrator | SCHOENBERG, ARNOLD: Gurrelieder (Review by James H. North) | bass | SCHOENBERG, ARNOLD: Kol Nidre (Review by James H. North) | rabbi-narrator | SCHOENBERG, ARNOLD: Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte (Review by Ronald E. Grames) | narrator | SCHOENBERG, ARNOLD: Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte (Review by James H. North) | narrator | SCHOENBERG, ARNOLD: Serenade, Op. 24. GurreLieder (Review by ROGER DETTMER) | reciter | SCHUBERT: Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911 (Review by James Miller) | baritone | SMITH, WILLIE: The Spider and the Fly (Review by John Bauman) | baritone | SMYTH, ETHEL: The Wreckers (Review by James H. North) | baritone | SMYTH, ETHEL: The Wreckers (Review by James H. North) | Lawrence | SOMERVELL: Maud. A Shropshire Lad (Review by Vincent Alfano) | baritone | SQUIRE: The Singing Lesson. Mountain Lovers (Review by John Bauman) | baritone | STRAVINSKY, IGOR: Babel (Review by James H. North) | narrator | STRAVINSKY, IGOR: Oedipus Rex. Babel. A Sermon, a Narrative, and a Prayer. Zvezdolikiy“ (Review by James H. North) | Creon | STRAVINSKY, IGOR: Oedipus Rex. Babel. A Sermon, a Narrative, and a Prayer. Zvezdolikiy“ (Review by James H. North) | Messenger | STRAVINSKY, IGOR: Oedipus Rex. Babel. A Sermon, a Narrative, and a Prayer. Zvezdolikiy“ (Review by James H. North) | narrator | STRAVINSKY, IGOR: The Flood. Abraham and Isaac. Variations (Aldous Huxley in Memoriam). Requiem Canticles (Review by John D. Wiser) | bass baritone | SULLIVAN: My Dearest Heart. I Would I Were a King, Fair Maid (Review by John Bauman) | baritone | TATE, PHYLLIS: Somewhere a Voice is Calling (Review by John Bauman) | baritone | TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo and Juliet (Review by Vincent Alfano) | baritone | TIPPETT, MICHAEL: King Priam (Review by Raymond Tuttle) | bass | TIPPETT, MICHAEL: King Priam (Review by Raymond Tuttle) | Old Man | TIPPETT, MICHAEL: The Ice Break (Review by Nicholas Deutsch) | bass baritone | TIPPETT, MICHAEL: The Ice Break (Review by Nicholas Deutsch) | Lev | VIVALDI, ANTONIO: Magnificat, RV. 610a. Lauda, Jerusalem, RV. 609. Kyrie Eleison, RV. 587. Credo in Unum Deum, RV. 591. Dixit Dominus, RV. 594 (Review by Elliott S. Hurwitt) | bass | VIVALDI, ANTONIO: Sacred Music, Volume One (Review by Elliott S. Hurwitt) | bass | WEBERN: Second Cantata (Review by James H. North) | bass | WOODFORDE-FINDEN, AMY: Allah Be With Us (Review by John Bauman) | baritone | WUORINEN, CHARLES: A Reliquary for Igor Stravinsky (Review by John D. Wiser) | bass baritone |
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