Lorna Anderson

Soprano

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  As a renowned performer of the baroque repertoire, Lorna Anderson has sung with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Les Arts Florissants, The Sixteen, English Concert, St. James Baroque, Collegium Musicum 90, London Classical Players, La Chapelle Royale and the Academy of Ancient Music under conductors such as William Christie, Harry Christophers, Trevor Pinnock, Ivor Bolton, Roger Norrington, Phillipe Herreweghe, Richard Egarr, Nicholas McGegan and Christopher Hogwood.

  She has also established an important reputation in the standard concert repertoire, having sung with the BBC Orchestras, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Israel Camerata, RAI Turin, New World Symphony Miami, Houston Symphony, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble InterContemporain under Pierre Boulez, London Sinfonietta under Sir Simon Rattle and at the Salzburg, Edinburgh and Aldeburgh Festivals.

  In opera her performances include productions for Halle Handel Festival, Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Gottingen Festival and Netherlands Opera.

  Her numerous and varied recordings include The Fairy Queen under Harry Christophers, Haydn Masses under Richard Hickox, and for Hyperion she has recorded Britten Folksong Settings with Malcolm Martineau, Handel’s L’Allegro with Robert King and she joined Graham Johnson’s complete Schubert Edition. Further releases include recordings of Haydn’s Scottish Folksong Arrangements with Haydn Trio Eisenstadt and the complete Poulenc song cycle with Malcolm Martineau.

  Lorna Anderson is represented worldwide by Ralph Blackbourn at Rayfield Allied.
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  • Debussy: Songs, Vol 2
    Hyperion

    Anderson effortlessly glides through Debussy’s limpid , lengthy phrases…Anderson’s rich tone and control is striking in the lower passages of songs like ‘En sourdine’ and ‘La chevelure’, and radiant in her more crystalline upper register

    Christopher Dingle, BBC Music Magazine [4 ****]

    the performances by sopranos Lorna Anderson and Lisa Milne are consistently beautiful, alert to the implications of Debussy’s word-setting, whether ecstatic or subdued, and instinctive in the vocal colour used to summon up poetic images and emotions...Debussy’s response to his divers range of poets is both precise and captivating, features that these performances convey with a wonderful feel for the natural contours and flow of the vocal lines, crystallising incidents or states of mind along the way but with a spontaneity that speaks of thorough immersion in Debussy’s idiom.

    Geoffrey Norris, Gramophone

  • Poulenc: The Complete Songs
    Vol 3

    Lorna Anderson is joined by Thomas Oliemans, which brings most beautiful singing in a nostalgic love duet…with eight outstanding singers and the pianist all on top form, this is the most attractively inviting of these Poulenc anthologies so far issued.

    Ivan March, Gramophone

• Lorna Anderson’s Oratorio and Concert Repertoire

  Andriessen

  • De stijl

  Bach

  • Magnificat (1st and 2nd sopranos)
  • St. John passion
  • St. Matthew passion
  • B minor mass (2nd soprano)
  • Christmas oratorio, parts I-III
  • Cantata numbers 1, 11, 38, 51, 63, 140, 146, 202, 208

  Beethoven

  • "Choral" Symphony no.9
  • Mass in C

  Berg

  • Sieben frühe Lieder
  • Altenberglieder
  • Der Wein

  Berlioz

  • Les nuits d’été

  Boulez

  • Le soleil des eaux

  Brahms

  • Requiem

  Britten

  • Les illuminations

  Debussy

  • Trois ballades de François Villon
  • Le Martyre de San Sebastian

  Duruflé

  • Requiem

  Elgar

  • Coronation ode, op.44
  • The Spirit of England

  Fauré

  • Requiem
  • Messe basse

  Gounod

  • Messe solonelle St. Cecile

  Handel

  • Messiah
  • Let the bright seraphim
  • Silete venti
  • German arias

  Hasse

  • Te deum

  Haydn

  • The creation
  • The seasons
  • Nelson mass
  • Missa cellensis
  • Paukenmesse
  • St. Nicholas mass
  • Theresienmesse
  • Harmonienmesse

  Jenkins

  • The armed man: a mass for peace

  Knussen

  • Ocean de Terre

  Kodaly

  • Missa brevis

  Liszt

  • Via crucis
  • Missa choralis

  Mahler

  • Symphony no. 2
  • Symphony no. 4

  Mendelssohn

  • Elijah
  • Hear my prayer

  Messiaen

  • La mort du nombre

  Mozart

  • Requiem
  • Ch'io mi scordi di te, K.505
  • Vado, ma dove?, K.583
  • Exsultate jubilate
  • Coronation mass
  • Sparrow mass
  • Mass in C minor
  • Missa brevis in D
  • Missa brevis in F
  • Laudate dominum

  Pergolesi

  • Magnificat

  Poulenc

  • Gloria
  • Mass in G

  Rachmaninov

  • Vocalise

  Rutter

  • Psalms

  Schubert

  • Mass in E flat
  • Mass in G
  • Mass in B flat

  Speare

  • The angels

  Strauss

  • Vier Letzte Lieder

  Stravinsky

  • Mass
  • Les noces
  • Threni

  Tippett

  • A child of our time
  • A vision of Saint Augustine

  Varese

  • Offrandes

  Vaughan Williams

  • "Sea" Symphony
  • "Antarctic" Symphony
  • Mass in G minor
  • Serenade to Music
  • Dona Nobis Pacem

  Verdi

  • Requiem
  • Four Sacred Pieces

  Vivaldi

  • Gloria (1st and 2nd sopranos)
  • Nulla in mundo pax sincera

  Wiegold

  • Perfume of the desert

  Zemlinsky

  • Lyric Symphony

  Lorna Anderson’s Opera Repertoire

  Birtwistle

  • The Corridor (Eurydice)

  Bizet

  • Carmen (Micaela)

  Britten

  • Rape of Lucretia (Female Chorus)
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (Helena)
  • Turn of the Screw (Governess)

  Gassmann

  • L’Opera Seria (La Stonatrilla)

  Gluck

  • Iphigénie en Tauride(Iphigénie)

  Handel

  • Alcina (Alcina)
  • Amadigi (Melissa)
  • Saul (Merab)

  Holst

  • Savitri (Savitri)

  Monteverdi

  • Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria (Minerva)

  Mozart

  • Idomeneo (Ilia)
  • Marriage of Figaro (La Contessa)
  • Magic Flute (Pamina)
  • Don Giovanni (Donna Elvira)
  • Così fan Tutte (Fiordiligi)

  Purcell

  • Fairy Queen(Caroline)

  Ravel

  • L’heure Espagnole (Conception)

  Vaughan Williams

  • Riders to the Sea (Cathleen)
  • Riders to the Sea (Nora)

  Verdi

  • Don Carlos (Thibault)

  Weill

  • Dreigroschenoper (Polly)

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