Howell, Gwynne

Overview

Works:	449 works in 1,354 publications in 7 languages and 16,746 library holdings
Genres:	Music Live sound recordings Operas Oratorios Musical settings Sacred music Drama Requiems Motets Filmed operas
Roles:	Performer, Singer, Conductor, Vocalist, Other, Musician, Author
Classifications:	M2000, 782.23

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Gwynne Howell

[London], to [Sir Philip Francis] by Henry Arthur Herbert Powis( )

Most widely held works by Gwynne Howell

The Messiah by George Frideric Handel( )

53 editions published between 1976 and 1997 in 4 languages and held by 1,211 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Based on the first London performance of March 23rd, 1743

I Capuleti e i Montecchi by Vincenzo Bellini( )

46 editions published between 1985 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 1,150 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Basada en la obra Romeo and Juliet de W. Shakespeare

Stabat Mater by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi( )

42 editions published between 1980 and 2005 in 6 languages and held by 921 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Opening the disc is Vivaldi's brief Sonata al Santo Sepolcro, an instrumental work probably intended for inclusion in an Easter church service. This is followed by a Stabat Mater proper, also by Vivaldi. Vivaldi used just the first ten verses of the text, creating one of the most sombre of all settings, here performed by the Canadian ensemble Theatre of Early Music and its director, counter-tenor Daniel Taylor, who in Bach is joined by Emma Kirkby, taking on the soprano part

Coronation ode : op. 44 ; The spirit of England : op. 80 by Edward Elgar( )

18 editions published between 1977 and 2003 in English and Undetermined and held by 587 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven( Recording )

23 editions published between 1980 and 2004 in 3 languages and held by 567 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The well loved team of Waltraud Meier and Placido Domingo join conductor Daniel Barenboim in a complete recording of Beethoven's intense and dramatic opera

Vesperae solennes de confessore : K. 339 ; Kyrie in D minor, K. 341 ; Ave verum corpus : K. 618 ; Exsultate, jubilate : K. 165 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart( Recording )

28 editions published between 1971 and 2005 in 5 languages and held by 486 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Belshazzar's feast ; Coronation Te Deum ; Gloria by William Walton( )

9 editions published between 1989 and 1997 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 394 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Messe in h-moll BWV 232 by Johann Sebastian Bach( )

8 editions published in 1991 in 3 languages and held by 363 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ariodante : an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel( Visual )

26 editions published between 1996 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 352 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The king of Scotland's daughter is treacherously accused of infidelity to her fiancé in this tale of trickery, betrayal, mistaken identity and sexual jealousy

Stiffelio by Giuseppe Verdi( Visual )

29 editions published between 1993 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 337 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Opera in three acts

The cunning little vixen ; Taras Bulba by Leoš Janáček( )

3 editions published in 1991 in English and held by 322 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Duke Bluebeard's castle by Béla Bartók( Recording )

2 editions published in 1993 in English and held by 322 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Recorded live at St. David's Hall, Cardiff, January 11, 1992

The cunning little vixen = Das schlaue Füchslein by Leoš Janáček( )

13 editions published between 1991 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 314 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Das schlaue Füchslein: Oper in drei Akten nach der Erzählung von R. Tesnohlidek / Das schlaue Füchslein: Orchestersuite, bearbeitet von Vaclav Talich

Les nuits d'été ; La morte de Cléopatre ; &, Les Troyens, Act V, scenes 2 & 3 by Hector Berlioz( )

3 editions published between 2004 and 2005 in French and held by 305 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Katya Kabanova by Leoš Janáček( )

7 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 296 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Katya Kabanova Elisabeth Soderstrom, soprano Petr Dvorsky, tenor Nadezda Kniplova, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Charles Mackerras, conductor Libretto included

Manon Lescaut by Giacomo Puccini( )

5 editions published between 1972 and 2005 in Italian and held by 293 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Puccini's opera about a pair of doomed lovers

Lulu : [Oper in drei Akten nach den Tragödien Erdgeist und Büchse der Pandora von Frank Wedekind] by Alban Berg( )

7 editions published between 2006 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 282 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Christine Schäfer sings the title role in Berg's twelve-tone masterpiece--the femme fatale who so enthralls admirers both male and female that they are powerless to halt their own destruction. Among them are Dr. Schön (James Courtney) and his son Alwa (David Kuebler), the Countess Geschwitz (Hanna Schwarz), the Painter (Clifton Forbes), two princes, an acrobat, and a schoolboy. But the magnetic Lulu is the emotional vortex around which everything revolves--all the way through her own downward spiral, until she is brutally murdered by Jack the Ripper. Maestro James Levine brings unparalleled insight and unexpected lyricism to the score, leading a powerful performance

Die Schöpfung by Joseph Haydn( )

16 editions published between 1987 and 1994 in 3 languages and held by 276 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Haydn gave birth to a new type of oratorio that reflected perfectly the spirit of his time. With German texts, direct expression of feelings and many grand choruses, it stood for the transition from the aristocracy to a bourgeois society, in which music-making in a group was seen as an expression of civil pride. Extremely popular with amateur choirs, performances with a large ensemble became the rule until well into the 20th century. And the 1960 Electrola recording represents this tradition, with a top-class trio of soloists consisting of the great Elisabeth Grummer, outstanding tenor Josef Traxel and Gottlob Frick, "the blackest of all bass singers"

St. John Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach( )

5 editions published between 1972 and 1995 in 3 languages and held by 275 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Stephen Layton leads the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and his own superb choral ensemble, Polyphony, in a powerful performance of Bach's most dramatic masterpiece, the St. John Passion. Joined by a starry team of soloists, Layton directs a particularly vivid account of the work, the excitement of the narrative drama contrasting with heartbreaking moments of reflection

Requiem by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart( )

12 editions published between 1989 and 2004 in 3 languages and held by 270 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Never performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra before, and rarely heard in concert at all, the Requiem by Antonín Dvořák captured on this CD from a live concert seems a near-forgotten masterpiece. Dvořák scholar Gervase Hughes cites this work for four soloists, chorus and orchestra as one of the composer's finest sacred creations, 'a deeply moving expression of faith on the part of a composer whose religious conviction never wavered'"--Container