Oratorio – BBC Broadcasts and Recordings

Neil has sung in BBC relays and recordings from the major concert halls around the country, and has also made several television appearances:

Royal Festival Hall

Tippett: A Child of our Time (conductor Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt)
Schubert: Mass in E flat (conductor Lorin Maazel)
Schnittke: Symphony no. 2 “St Florian” (conductor G Rozhdestvensky)
Szymanowski: Harnasie (conductor Sir Edward Downes)
Stravinsky: Threni (conductor David Atherton)
Penderecki: Te Deum (conductor Krzysztof Penderecki)

Queen Elizabeth Hall

Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet (conductor Sir Roger Norrington)
Handel: Israel in Egypt (conductor Andrew Parrott)
Henze: Novae de Infinito Laudes (conductor Elgar Howarth)
Handel: Brockes Passion (conductor Paul Steinitz)

Royal Albert Hall

These are in addition to performances at the Proms.

Mendelssohn: Elijah (conductor Richard Hickox)
Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts (conductor Michael Rose)
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music (conductor Sir David Willcocks)

Other Regional British Concert Halls

Cardiff
Tippett: A Child of our Time (conductor Richard Hickox)
Gershwin: Porgy & Bess (conductor Richard Hickox)

Liverpool
Berlioz: L’Enfance du Christ (RLPO conductor David Atherton)

Leeds
Janacek: Glagolitic Mass (BBC Philharmonic conductor Sir Charles Mackerras)

Halifax
Mendelssohn: St Paul (BBC Northern Orchesta conductor Donald Hunt)

Glasgow
Mozart: Requiem (Scottish National Orchestra conductor Gary Bertini)

Birmingham
Handel: Messiah (CBSO conductor Christopher Robinson)

BBC Studio recordings of Oratorios

Schubert: A Flat Mass
Haydn: Applausus Cantata
Handel: Saul

Television Appearances

Britten: Serenade (Cathedral Classics)
Tippett: A Child of our Time (1st Night of the Proms)
Orff: Carmina Burana (TVS Proms)
Purcell: Ode to St. Cecilia (“Music in Time” series)
Stravinsky: Renard conductor Pierre Boulez (opening of the Cité de la Musique