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Extra Tracks
Below are tracks from our library that never made it onto one of our compact discs. They can be downloaded here as high quality 320kbs AAC encoded (MP3) files.
Purchasers of tracks have unlimted personal use but must not pass or sell on to third parties nor broadcast without prior permission from PPL
Helen Watts (contralto) 1927 - 2009
The Welsh contralto, Helen Watts, started her siinging caeer singing in the chorus at Glyndebouren and for the BBC where she received broadcasting engagemnets from BBC Wales. She made he Henry Wood Prom debut in 1953 siging Bach under the direction of Sir Malcolm Sargent. At the 1958 Camden festival she made her first opera appreance as Didymus in Handel's Theodora. She soom became a distinguished concert artist. Her recording career was extensive, ranging from acclaimed Bach cantatas and oratorios under Otto Klemperer, Ernest Ansermet, Britten and the Bach specialist Helmuth Rilling; The Messiah and The Dream of Gerontius under Sir Colin Davis; Beethoven's Ninth Symphony under Leopold Stokowski and Mahler's Second and Eighth Symphonies under Sir Georg Solti. She retired in 1985 to care for her husband in their Pembrokeshire home.
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