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Bizet: 20 Songs

Justina Gringyte, Malcolm Martineau

Format: Digital

This debut album by Lithuanian mezzo-soprano Justina Gringyte, one of the rising stars of the opera world, and pianist Malcolm Martineau is the first solo album and complete recording of Georges Bizet's (1838-1875) long-forgotten masterwork "Vingt Melodies" (20 songs) op. 21. In 2025 it will be 150 years since Bizet, one of the greatest French composers, died. During his career, which lasted just over twenty years, Bizet composed an extensive oeuvre, including 15 operas. His opus 21 was composed between 1854 and 1872 and is of such high quality that it is incomprehensible why it has remained so neglected to this day. Mezzo-soprano Justina Gringyte is highly praised for her "dazzling technique" (The Times) and "thunderously powerful voice" (Daily Telegraph). She graduated from the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Ballet and Opera Covent Garden - where she performed together with Renée Fleming, Bryn Terfel and Plácido Domingo during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Committee for the London Olympic Games and during a special concert in honour of Queen Elizabeth II's diamond jubilee - and is considered one of the most important rising stars of the opera world. Malcolm Martineau is recognized as one of the finest piano accompanists in Great Britain and has performed with the world's greatest singers, including Sir Thomas Allen, Dame Janet Baker, Florian Boesch, Elina Garanca, Dame Sarah Connolly, Angela Gheorghiu, Susan Graham, Thomas Hampson, Sir Simon Keenlyside, Angelika Kirchschlager, Dame Felicity Lott, Anne Sofie von Otter, Günther Groissböck and Sonya Yoncheva.

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