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Stanley Stewart
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« on: 00:19:15, 05-10-2008 »
Read some very sad news on a weekly visit TOP.   Bernadette Greevy has died and I have instant memories of her rich mezzo soprano voice when she did London recitals for several decades, although her discography was rather limited.  Janet Baker reigned supreme in the Elgar Sea Pictures but Bernadette Greevy was never in the shade.  A feisty Irish independence.   Memories of her, too, in Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder and Brahms's Alto Rhapsody.   There was always a warmth in her work as well as a radiance in her platform presence.

                       R I P Bernadette Greevy 
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #1 on: 00:31:26, 05-10-2008 »
Sad news indeed, Stanley.

 DJB may have dominated the mezzo territory for a long time, but there were other wonderful singers who were arguably in the same class such as Watts, Minton, Procter, Veasey and Greevy, whose CfP recording of the Sea Pictures with the late Tod Handley offered a very different, though no less valid, interpretation and was one of the label's biggest successes.

Remembered from radio recitals, too.

R.I.P.
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Stanley Stewart
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« Reply #2 on: 00:47:21, 05-10-2008 »
Thanks, Ron.   I knew that B G had worked on the Angel in Gerontius with JB but, try as I may, I could not remember who conducted her recording of Sea Pictures.   Tod Handley, of course, another recent victim of the fell sergeant.
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« Reply #3 on: 09:12:35, 05-10-2008 »
Bernadette Greevy's recording of Sea Pictures was on a CfP LP with the Pomp & Circumstance Marches, which served as my introduction to Elgar. I recall a beautiful portrait of Elgar on the cover, working at his desk by candlelight. I wasn't into vocal music at all in those teenage years, but always made an expection for the Sea Pictures.

R.I.P.

Found the LP cover online:
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