Nigel Potts, organist, and Sarah Rose Taylor, mezzo soprano, have released an all Wagner and Elgar CD on the MSR Classics label. The program includes two complete song cycles, Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder (some of which were sketches for Tristan und Isolde) and Elgar’s Sea Pictures, as well as “The Angel’s Farewell” from Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius and Wagner’s Prelude to Act I from Tristan und Isolde. All works were transcribed by Nigel Potts and recorded on the Schoenstein & Co. organ at Christ & St. Stephen’s Church in New York City, where Potts is organist and choirmaster. Some tracks also include Wagner or Elgar’s harp part performed by Grace Cloutier.
Potts and Taylor have performed duo concerts in Arkansas, Arizona, Washington, D.C., Texas, the Bahamas, Weill Hall of Carnegie Hall, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, and most recently at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco and at Longwood Gardens for the Delius Society of Philadelphia. They are pictured at Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
For information: www.msrcd.com.
