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Mark Padmore

Tenor


"This Handel collection shows the tenor Mark Padmore at his considerable best, the voice mellifluous, smooth and in impeccable physical order, heart and mind precisely tuned to whatever demands the composer’s work places on them. The music ranges wide, from the furious to the seraphic, the tragic to the joyful. The complete scena from Tamerlano, in which Bajazet dies from self-inflicted poisoning, is given by Padmore with remarkable dramatic power; “Total eclipse”, from Samson, has searching poignancy. But the highlight is “Waft her, angels”, from Jephtha, which in this artfully simple performance seems the most touching music ever "
Stephen Pettit
The Sunday Times

Mark Padmore
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Recent and future highlights

  • Birtwistle The Corridor - Southbank Centre London; Aldeburgh and Bregenz Festivals
  • Britten War Requiem - Bayerische Runtfunk Orchestra - Mariss Jansons
  • Captain Vere in Britten Billy Budd - Glyndebourne Festival Opera
  • Title role La Clemenza di Tito - concert tour and recording - René Jacobs
  • Handel arias recording for Harmonia Mundi - English Concert and Andrew Manze
  • Schumann Paradies und die Peri - Philadelphia Orchestra - Sir Simon Rattle
  • Bach St Matthew Passion - Concertgebouw, Berlin Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras
  • Recitals in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, New York; Paris; Frankfurt; Vienna and Florence
  • Three Schubert song cycles - Theater an der Wien, Vienna with Till Fellner; Wigmore Hall, London with Paul Lewis
  • Britten Spring Symphony - London Symphony Orchestra - Daniel Harding
  • Martynov Vita Nuova - London Philharmonic Orchestra - Vladimir Jurowski