Word: glossop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music is filled with a mystic intensity that illuminates rather than beclouds the libretto, which was beautifully crafted by E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier from Melville's tale of an innocent's execution. The album has been meticulously produced with a cast that includes Peter Glossop as Billy and Peter Pears as Captain Vere: Britten himself conducts...
...cast is an astounding collection of pure voices attached to good actors. Heading the bill is the English baritone Peter Glossop who makes a warm graceful Falstaff and whose voices takes on the precariously high-pitched part with expansive ease. Ronald Hedlund, who plays Ford, has a wonderful, thick baritone which contrasts with Glossop's, even when the two men are singing in exactly the same range. The women too are superb with Beverly Bower and Carole Boaarde as stand-outs...
Lewis Brown, the costumer, has done a very believable job of padding out Mr. Glossop and has also had the inspiration to give the ladies 16th century profiles by flattening out their chests. It doesn't seem to hurt their singing...