Donizetti:  Imelda de’ Lambertazzi 

Performers: Nicole Cabell, James Westman, Massimo Giordano,

Frank Lopardo, Brindley Sherratt, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir,

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

Composer: Donizetti
Conductor: Mark Elder
Release Date: Feb. 2008
CD: N/A

Donizetti:  Imelda de Lambertazzi
Recorded at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

Saturday 10 March 2007

Pre-concert discussion with Mark Elder and Dr Martin Deasy, who is a specialist in Donizetti in Naples. Queen Elizabeth Hall auditorium.

Harry Somers: A Midwinter Night's Dream

2007 Juno Award Nominee  for Classical Composition of the Year

Performers:

Chief - James Westman, baritone

Daisy - Alison McHardy, mezzo

Ai'o'u - Michael Colvin, tenor

Jimmy Moonwok - John Michael Schneider, singer; Mathew Galloway, actor

Eva Padliuk - Heather Hudyma

The Seal - Claire Hughes

Trio - Larissa Swenarchuk, Alexandra Beley, Shannon Gault

Canadian Children's Opera Chorus

Conducted by: Ann Cooper Gay

Pianist: Claire Preston

Percussion: Daniel Morphy
Release Date: 2006
CD: WRC8-7977

 

Margison Sings Verdi

2003 Juno Award Nominee for Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral Performance

Performers: Richard Margison, James Westman

Composer: Verdi
Conductor: Richard Bradshaw
Release Date: March 2002
CD: SMCD 5213

“Joining Margison is conductor RICHARD BRADSHAW and the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra. Along with a featured performance from the rising young baritone JAMES WESTMAN, this wonderful cast takes the listener on an emotional rollercoaster that is an artistic triumph. Margison performances shine whether as the love-struck lover Rodolfo in Luisa Miller or the tortured lover Alvaro in La forza del destino; or as the falsely-accused Jacopo Foscari from the opera I due foscari where Jacopo sings of his innocence. From Verdi's Don Carlo, James Westman as Rodrigo and Margison as Don Carlo sing a stirring duet swearing their eternal friendship. An absolute highlight is the very last track in the CD, as Margison performs the role of Manrico from Il Trovatore. It begins with the moving aria from Act III, Ah si, ben mio, coll'essere (Ah yes, my love, when I am yours), where Manrico sings of his love for Lenora, an idyllic scene soon shattered when news arrives of Manrico's mother being sentenced to death at the stake. In Di quella pira l'orrendo foco (The horrible blaze of that pyre) Margison, conductor and orchestra deliver an extraordinary finale sure to send thrills up the listeners' spine. “ CBC

Angel Choir

Performer: James Westman, baritone/ Rod Beatie, Narrator
Ensemble: St. Mary’s Children’s Choir and Festival Youth Singers
Conductor: Eileen Baldwin
Recorded: July 2000

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Millennium Opera Gala: Roy Thomson Hall

2001 Juno Award Nominee for Classical Album (Vocal or Choral Performance)
 

Performers:
Isabel Bayrakdarian - soprano
Russell Braun - baritone
Measha Brüggergosman - soprano
Tracy Dahl coloratura - soprano
Frances Ginzer - soprano
Ben Heppner - tenor
Richard Margison - tenor
Mario Bernardi - Conductor
Richard Bradshaw - Conductor
TS Members - Orchestra
TMC - Orchestra
Adrianne Pieczonka - soprano
Robert Pomakov - bass
Brett Polegato - baritone
Catherine Robbin - mezzo soprano
Michael Schade - tenor
Jean Stilwell - mezzo soprano
James Westman - baritone

Release Date: June 2000

Recorded Live: Roy Thompson Hall, Toronto, Ontario, December 31, 1999
CD: SMCD 5198

On Friday, December 31, 1999 at 7:00 p.m., Toronto, Ontario was home to one of the most historic events in Canadian music history: Roy Thomson Hall's Millennium Opera Gala. Although headlined by Canada's own "three tenors" - Ben Heppner, Richard Margison and Michael Schade - the impressive list of participants did not end there. Included on the roster were sopranos Tracy Dahl, Frances Ginzer and Adrianne Pieczonka; mezzo sopranos Catherine Robbin and Jean Stilwell; and baritones Russell Braun, Brett Polegato, and Gino Quilico. In addition to these current international stars, the next generation was also represented by four exceptionally gifted young singers: sopranos Isabel Bayrakdarian and Measha Brüggergosman; baritone James Westman; and the 18-year-old bass Robert Pomakov. These outstanding Canadian singers were complemented by Roy Thomson Hall's two resident companies, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir under the direction of Mario Bernardi and Richard Bradshaw. The two-and-a-half hour concert was broadcast live to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's RADIO TWO network on the concert programme IN PERFORMANCE. The critical and public response to both the concert and the broadcast was unprecedented. This new compact disc on CBC Records takes highlights from that broadcast.

Tracks

01 - Mignon: Oui, Pour Ce Soir... Je Suis Titania

02 - Lakme: Viens, Mallika... Dome Epais Ou Le Blanc Jasmin...

03 - Les Pecheurs De Perles: Au Fond Du Temple Saint

04 - Hamlet: Drinking Song: O Vin Dissipe...

05 - La Perichole: Griserie Ariette: Ah! Quel Diner...

06 - Lucia Di Lammermoor: Sextet: Chi Mi Frena In Tal Momento?

07 - Semira17.98e: Bel Raggio...

08 - Don Giovanni: Dalla Sua Pace...

09 - Der Rosenkavalier: Trio: 'Marie Theres'...Hab' Mir's Gelobt...

10 - La Wally: Ebben, Ne Andro Lontana...

11 - La Traviata: Di Provenza Il Mar

12 - Aida: Se Quel Guerrier Io Fossi!... Celeste Aida...

13 - Tosca: Vissi D'Arte

14 - Turandot: In Questa Reggia...

15 - Turandot: Nessun Dorma...

16 - La Traviata: Libiamo...

17 - O Canada Works Ambroise Thomas 'Oui, pour ce soir…Je suis Titania...'

Credits

(Mignon) - Dahl/Bernardi/TMC Leo Delibes 'Viens, Mallika...Dôme épais le jasmin...'

(Lakmé) - Bayrakdarian/Robbin/Bernardi Georges Bizet 'Au fond du temple saint…'

(Les Pêcheurs) - Schade/Braun/Bradshaw Ambroise Thomas 'O vin dissipe...'

(Hamlet) - Polegato/Bradshaw/TMC Jacques Offenbach 'Ah! Quel dîner...'

(La Périchole) - Stilwell/Bradshaw Gaetano Donizetti 'Chi mi frena in tal momento?'

(Lucia di Lammermoor) - Dahl/Stilwell/Margison/Schade/Quilico/Pomakov Gioachino Rossini 'Bel raggio…'

(Semirande) - Bayrakdarian/Bradshaw Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 'Dalla sua pace…'

(Don Giovanni) - Schade/Bradshaw Richard Strauss 'Marie Thérèse…Hab' mir's gelobt...'

(Der Rosenkavalier) - Pieczonka/Dahl/Stillwell/ Bernardi Alfredo Catalini 'Ebben, ne andro lontana…'

(La Wally) - Brüggergosman/Bernardi Giuseppe Verdi 'Di provenza il mar...'

(La Traviata) - Westman/Bernardi Giuseppe Verdi 'Se quel guerrier io fossi! …Celeste Aïda...'

(Aïda) - Margison/Bernardi Giaccomo Puccini 'Vissi d'arte'

(Tosca) - Pieczonka/Bradshaw Giaccomo Puccini 'In questa reggia...'

(Turandot) -Ginzer/Margison/ Bernardi/TMC Giaccomo Puccini 'Nessun dorma…'

(Turandot) -Margison/Bernardi/TMC Giuseppe Verdi 'Libiamo…'

(La Traviata) - Tutti/Bradshaw/TMC Calixa Lavallée / Godfrey Ridout

O Canada - Tutti/Bradshaw/TMC

The Aldeburgh Connection 20th Anniversary Collection

Performer: James Westman
Composer: Rachmaninov
Artistic Directors: Stephen Ralls & Bruce Ubukata

Release Date: June, 2002
Recorded: Glenn Gould Studios (CBC), December 9, 1997
CD: WRC8 - 7634

A 2-CD collection of performances by 40 of our artists in more than 60 tracks, representing the best from over a decade of Aldeburgh Connection concerts.

This collection is available only through The Aldeburgh Connection.

Les Sept Paroles du Christ

Performers: James Westman, Janet Obermeyor, Greg Carpenter, Chris Dawes

Composer: Dubois
Conductor: Giless Bryant
Enseble: The Gentlemen and Boys of St. James Cathedral, Toronto
Release Date: October 1994
CD: WRC8-6799

Mahler Symphony No. 4

Performer: James Westman, boy soprano
Ensemble: New England Conservatory Youth Philharmonic

Composer: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Conductor: Benhamin Zander
Recorded Live: Viennna Musikvereinsaal, 1983

Released: 2001

CD: 80555-A

Jamie Westman - Boy Treble

Performer: James Westman, treble / John Wood, Organ
Recorded: March 1984