ORATORIO SPECIALIST
Oratorio Brochure pdf.
Susan enjoys an enviable reputation as an accomplished oratorio singer and is frequently invited back as a guest soloist with choral societies at home and abroad. As a reliable, fluent sight-reader and having a vast repertoire, she has been called in at the last minute and saved many performances from disaster.
Susan regularly sings as a freelance with the BBC Singers and has joined them for recordings and performances of choral works in the BBC Proms.
Recent and notable performances as mezzo soloist include:
Handel
Messiah
Three performances in Mexico City for the Anglo Mexican Foundation.
Conductor: Zuohuang Chen
Winchester Cathedral
Birmingham Town Hall
Conductor: Sir David Willcocks
Elgar
Dream of Gerontius
The Kingdom
Music Makers
Sea Pictures
Canterbury Cathedral
Arundel Cathedral
Tonbridge School Chapel
Saga Pavilion, Folkestone
Worth Abbey, Sussex
Conductors: Mark Deller, Robin Morrish, Brian Wright, John Henville
'Susan Legg has exactly the right quality of mezzo soprano voice for the Angel, with melting velvety tones that can soar effortlessly and yet express gentle intimacy. She proved the perfect foil to Gilchrist's Gerontius in their dialogue.'
Charles Vignoles
Tonbridge Philharmonic Society
'Susan Legg, making her fifth visit to Tonbridge, captured the hearts of the performers and audience with her warm personality, unfaltering accuracy and intensity of delivery, all supported by a sense of unshakable serenity.'
Roger Everden, Kent and Sussex Courier
Rossini
Petite Messe Solennelle
Beaulieu Abbey
Chichester Cathedral
Stationers’ Hall, London
Royal College of Music
Pianist Wayne Marshall
Conductor: Noel Osborne
Verdi
Requiem
Tonbridge School Chapel
Tonbridge Philharmonic Society
Conductor: Robin Morrish
'Susan Legg produced perhaps the finest singing of the evening…a voice whose depth of colour and evenness of quality across the whole range made it ideally suited to Verdi's music.'
Kent and Sussex Courier
Bach
Christmas Oratorio
St. Bartholomew's Church, Brighton.
Sussex Chorus
Conductor: Neil Jenkins
"Susan Legg, who looked to be enjoying herself all evening, showed sublime control, never more so than the long opening notes of the ‘Slumber beloved’ aria."
Phil Dennett, Mid Sussex Times, December 2005
Mendelssohn
Elijah
Worth Abbey. Sussex Chorus.
Conductor: Neil Jenkins
Sussex Chorus's perfomance of Mendelssohn's Elijah in Worth Abbey with the London Gala Orchestra conducted by Neil Jenkins was heralded a triumph. A spectacular setting and home to twenty five Benedictine monks, Worth Abbey proved a fascinating backdrop for this neglected choral masterpiece.
"The soloists were a pleasure to listen to. Mezzo Soprano Susan Legg brought out the intricacies in the text and used different colours when portraying the characters. She sang with great clarity."
Mid Sussex Times
"The impressive forces gathered under Neil Jenkins' baton in Worth Abbey quickly reminded us what a masterpiece this still is. A strong line of soloists, led by Michael George, gave the narrative a strong cutting edge."
The Organ
"Susan Legg was an equally inspiring Angel with a warm, smooth emission fitting the words unsurpassingly."
Gordon Bull, Words and Music
The Dream of Gerontius
6th July, 2008, Worth Abbey
Sussex Chorus, East Sussex Bach Choir & London Gala Orchestra.
Conductor Brian Wright.
Neil Jenkins – Gerontius
Michael George - Priest and Angel of Agony
Susan Legg - Angel
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