Mark Padmore Archive

LARCHER: Smart Dust; Poems; What Becomes; A Padmore Cycle – Tamara Stefanovich, piano/ Mark Padmore, tenor/ Thomas Larcher, p, – Harmonia mundi
Interesting stuff for the curious and adventurous, well-crafted for the most part and done with panache.

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: On Wenlock Edge; 10 Blake Songs; JONATHAN DOVE: The End; WARLOCK: The Curlew – Mark Padmore, tenor/ Nicholas Daniel, oboe/ Huw Watkins, p./ Britten Sinfonia/ Jacqueline Shave – Harmonia mundi
A ravishing experience of incredible music, presented in near perfection.

BRITTEN: Serenade for tenor, horn, and strings; Nocturne for tenor, seven obbligato instruments and strings; FINZI: Dies Natalis – Mark Padmore, tenor/ Stephen Bell, horn/ Britten Sinfonia/ Jacqueline Shave – Harmonia mundi
Excellent readings of Britten and Finzi that rank with the very best on record.

SCHUBERT: Schwanengesang; Auf dem Strom; Die Sterne – Mark Padmore, tenor/ Paul Lewis, p./ Richard Watkins, horn – Harmonia mundi
The Schubertian trilogy is complete with this rousing rendition.