ALBUMGo, Lovely Rose: Songs of Roger QuilterJames Gilchrist & Anna Tilbrook
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ALBUMGo, Lovely Rose: Songs of Roger QuilterJames Gilchrist & Anna Tilbrook
ALBUMThe Songs of Thomas PitfieldJames Gilchrist & Nathan Williamson
ALBUMTongues of Fire - Songs by Eric McElroyJames Gilchrist & Eric McElroy
ALBUMInn Stetter Hut: 16th-Century Viol Music for the Richest Man in the World, Vol. 2The Linarol Consort & James Gilchrist
ALBUMOn This Shining NightRoderick Williams, Sophie Bevan, James Gilchrist & Coull Quartet
ALBUMOne Hundred Years of British Song, Vol. 3James Gilchrist & Nathan Williamson
ALBUMOne Hundred Years of British Song, Vol. 2James Gilchrist & Nathan Williamson
ALBUMProud Songsters: English Solo SongLawrence Zazzo, Michael Chance, Gerald Finley, Mark Stone, Andrew Staples, James Gilchrist, Ashley Riches & Simon Lepper
ALBUMOne Hundred Years of British Song, Vol. 1James Gilchrist & Nathan Williamson
ALBUMSolitudeJames Gilchrist & Anna Tilbrook
ALBUMHoward Skempton: Chamber WorksRoderick Williams, James Gilchrist, Tim Horton & Ensemble 360
ALBUMThemes and VariationsGuy Johnston, Tom Poster & James Gilchrist
ALBUMParry: 12 Sets of English Lyrics, Vol. 2Roderick Williams, Andrew West, Sarah Fox & James Gilchrist
ALBUMVaughan Williams: Songs of TravelJames Gilchrist, Philip Dukes & Anna Tilbrook
ALBUMParry: 12 Sets of English Lyrics, Vol. 1Susan Gritton, James Gilchrist, Roderick Williams & Andrew West
ALBUMHandel: Israel in EgyptLe Concert Lorrain, Netherlands Chamber Choir, David Allsopp, Julia Doyle, James Gilchrist, Roy Goodman, Peter Harvey, Maria Valdmaa & Roderick Williams
ALBUMSchumann: Song CyclesAnna Tilbrook & James Gilchrist
ALBUMJEFFREYS, J.: The Far CountryJames Gilchrist & Anna Tilbrook
ALBUMWolf: The Complete Songs, Vol. 1Sophie Daneman, Anna Grevelius, Stephan Loges, James Gilchrist & Sholto Kynoch
ALBUMBenjamin Britten: My Beloved is MineJames Gilchrist & Anna Tilbrook
ALBUMSchubert: WinterreiseJames Gilchrist & Anna Tilbrook
ALBUMBach: Welt, gute NachtJames Gilchrist, Nicholas Mulroy, Clare Wilkinson, John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Matthew Brook, Jeremy Budd, Peter Harvey, Katherine Fuge & Julia Doyle
ALBUMBach: Cantatas, Vol. 12Monteverdi Choir, James Gilchrist, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, Robin Tyson, Joanne Lunn, Peter Harvey, Gillian Keith, William Kendall, Hilary Summers & Susan Hamilton
ALBUMBach: Cantatas, Vol. 18Claron McFadden, Bernarda Fink, English Baroque Soloists, Dietrich Henschel, Christoph Genz, John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir, James Gilchrist, Peter Harvey, Sally Bruce-Payne & Michael Chance
ALBUMSchubert: Schwanengesang - Beethoven: An die ferne GeliebteJames Gilchrist & Anna Tilbrook
ALBUMBach: Cantatas, Vol. 2James Gilchrist, John Eliot Gardiner, Daniel Taylor, Monteverdi Choir, Stephen Varcoe, English Baroque Soloists, Lisa Larsson, Jonathan Brown, Katherine Fuge, Vernon Kirk, Robin Tyson, Maya Homburger, Rachel Beckett & Malcolm Proud
ALBUMSchubert, F.: Schone Mullerin (Die)James Gilchrist & Anna Tilbrook
ALBUMSongs of Sir Lennox BerkeleyJames Gilchrist, Anna Tilbrook & Alison Nicholls
ALBUMSongs of Muriel HerbertJames Gilchrist, Ailish Tynan & David Owen Norris
ALBUMBach: Cantatas, Vol. 4 - BWV 9, 107, 170, 186, 187James Gilchrist, Joanne Lunn, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Michael Chance, Stephen Varcoe, John Eliot Gardiner, Katherine Fuge, Richard Wyn Roberts, Kobie Van Rensburg & Stephan Loges
ALBUMBach: Cantatas, Vol. 17 - BWV 16, 41, 58, 143, 153, 171James Gilchrist, Peter Harvey, Ruth Holton, John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Charles Humphries, Lucy Ballard & Sally Bruce-Payne
ALBUMFinzi: Dies Natalis, Farewell to ArmsJames Gilchrist, David Hill & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMFrancis Pott: The Cloud of UnknowingJames Gilchrist, Jeremy Backhouse, Jeremy Filsell & Vasari Singers
ALBUMVaughan Williams: On Wenlock EdgeJames Gilchrist, Anna Tilbrook & Fitzwilliam String Quartet
ALBUMFinzi: Intimations of Immortality, For St. CeciliaBournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, David Hill & James Gilchrist
ALBUMRosseter: When Laura Smiles - Lute Solos and Songs from Elizabethan EnglandJames Gilchrist & Matthew Wadsworth
ALBUMSullivan: Cox and Box & Trial by JuryRichard Hickox, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, James Gilchrist, Neal Davies, Donald Maxwell, Rebecca Evans, Matthew Brook & David Thaxton
ALBUMHummel: Mass in E-Flat Major, Te Deum & Quod in orbeRichard Hickox, Collegium Musicum 90, Susan Gritton, Ann Murray, James Gilchrist & Stephen Varcoe
ALBUMBach, J.S.: Cantatas, Vol. 21 - Bwv 65, 81, 83, 190Robin Blaze, James Gilchrist, Peter Kooij, Bach Collegium Japan & Masaaki Suzuki
ALBUMBritten: Albert HerringRichard Hickox, City of London Sinfonia, James Gilchrist, Pamela Helen Stephen, Roderick Williams, Susan Bullock, Sally Burgess & Alan Opie
ALBUMVergine bella - Italian Renaissance MusicCarolyn Sampson, Clare Wilkinson, Julian Podger, Robert Meunier, Guy Ross, Tessa Bonner, James Gilchrist & Jonathan Arnold
ALBUMBritten: Owen WingraveRichard Hickox, City of London Sinfonia, Peter Coleman-Wright, Alan Opie, James Gilchrist, Elizabeth Connell, Janice Watson & Sarah Fox
ALBUMBach: Cantatas, Vol. 10 - BWV 5, 48, 56, 79, 80, 90, 192Joanne Lunn, John Eliot Gardiner, William Towers, Peter Harvey, Monteverdi Choir, James Gilchrist & English Baroque Soloists
ALBUMBach: Cantatas, Vol. 14 - BWV 40, 91, 110, 121Joanne Lunn, Robin Tyson, English Baroque Soloists, Peter Harvey, Katherine Fuge, John Eliot Gardiner, James Gilchrist, William Towers & Monteverdi Choir
ALBUMBach: Cantatas, Vol. 15 - BWV 57, 64, 133, 151Gillian Keith, Robin Tyson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Peter Harvey, John Eliot Gardiner, James Gilchrist, William Towers, Joanne Lunn & Katherine Fuge
ALBUMBach: Cantatas, Vol. 16 - BWV 28, 122, 152, 190, 225English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner, Gillian Keith, Peter Harvey, Katherine Fuge, James Gilchrist, Daniel Taylor & Joanne Lunn
ALBUMBach: Cantatas, Vol. 21 - BWV 1, 22, 23, 54, 127, 159, 182Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner, James Oxley, Ruth Holton, English Baroque Soloists, Claudia Schubert, Peter Harvey, Malin Hartelius, James Gilchrist & Nathalie Stutzmann
ALBUMBach: Cantatas, Vol. 22 - BWV 4, 6, 31, 134, 145John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, James Gilchrist, Gillian Keith, Stephen Varcoe, Daniel Taylor & Angharad Gruffydd Jones
ALBUMBach: Cantatas, Vol. 24 - BWV 12, 103, 108, 117, 146, 166Mark Padmore, Julian Clarkson, English Baroque Soloists, Brigitte Geller, William Towers, John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir, James Gilchrist, Stephen Varcoe & Robin Tyson
ALBUMBach.: Cantatas, Vol. 7 - BWV 17, 19, 25, 50, 78, 130, 149Malin Hartelius, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, James Gilchrist, Peter Harvey, Robin Tyson & Richard Wyn Roberts
About James Gilchrist
Artist Biography
James Gilchrist emerged as one of the leading English tenors in the latter part of the 20th century. He has sung a wide range of repertory, from J.S. Bach (St. John Passion) to Berlioz (L'enfance du Christ) to Britten (War Requiem), and on to such modern fare as Knut Nystedt's Apocalypsis Joannis. He has scored equal successes in lighter works, like Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore, where he portrayed Ralph.
Gilchrist was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, on April 29, 1966. While he exhibited a strong talent for music in his youth, his choice of profession initially was that of medicine. Until he was 30 years old, he was a practicing doctor who only sang on the side, despite his impressive educational credentials: he studied at Winchester College, then later at King's College, Cambridge, earning the distinction of choral scholar. As he continued his medical studies, he sang with such prominent groups as the Sixteen, the Cardinall's Musick, and the Tallis Scholars. His decision to focus on music was prompted by his many triumphs on the stage and in the recording studio in the late 1980s and early '90s. He had appeared on a number of successful recordings while still a doctor: he sang on a pair of Naxos releases containing masses by William Byrd (1994) and Dufay (1995).
In the new century, Gilchrist continued to expand his repertory, taking on such roles as the Evangelist in Haydn's The Seasons in St. Louis, and taking on such roles as Damon in Handel's Acis and Galatea (2004) at the Lufthansa Festival of Music at St. John's, Smith Square, London, and the Evangelist in Bach's St. Matthew Passion (2006) in Boston. In the 2010-2011 season, he performed Schubert's Die schöne Mullerin at Wigmore Hall, Britten's Les illuminations at the Aldeburgh Festival, and Serenade for tenor, horn, and strings with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta.
Gilchrist has been heard on over 100 albums and has recorded with numerous labels, including Hyperion, Chandos, Collins Classics, and EMI. In 2020, he was featured on several albums, including a 2019 performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion, with the King's College Choir, under the direction of Stephen Cleobury, shortly before his retirement. Gilchrist was also heard on the Chandos release Solitude, accompanied by Anna Tilbrook, and the first volume in Somm's One Hundred Years of British Songs series, with Nathan Williamson. ~ Robert Cummings & Keith Finke
Hometown
Banbury, Oxfordshire, England
Genre
Classical
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