Kitty Whately: Through the Centuries - Songs of Madeleine Dring - COMPACT DISCS

Kitty Whately: Through the Centuries - Songs of Madeleine Dring - COMPACT DISCS

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Through the Centuries - Songs of Madeleine Dring

Artist:

Kitty Whately

Label:

Chandos

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

0095115239025

Genre:

Classical Artists

Release Date:

2026-04-03

Number of Discs:

1

English mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately presents an album of songs by Madeleine Dring. Born in 1923 to a theatrical family, Dring was admitted to the Royal College of Music at the age of nine. She went on to study composition with Herbert Howells, also taking lessons from Gordon Jacob and Ralph Vaughan Williams. She made her career in the theatre, earning a reputation for being able to create catchy numbers at short notice. Sadly, she died at the early age of fifty-three, of a brain aneurysm. The disparate nature of her musical legacy is often attributed to the piecemeal nature of her career; consequently, resurgence of interest in her work has lagged behind that of her contemporaries Elizabeth Lutyens, Elizabeth Maconchy, Grace Williams, and Ruth Gipps. Kitty Whately and Julius Drake have chosen widely from among her output, and end with Dring's version of Cole Porter's 'In the Still of the Night'.

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