I've raved about William Burden before, and I'm going to do it again, because I want to get this posted ahead of about 2000 words of ranting about Billy Budd.
He was great in last night's San Francisco Opera production of the opera, as Vere, to the extent that I came out of it wanting very little more than to hear him sing the Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings. He is seriously under-recorded for such a great artist (a great artist with a beautiful voice, too), and the Serenade isn't among the small number of recordings.
Well, we can hope.
Archiv is missing a few. He's also on a recording of Chabrier songs, Gareth Valentine's Requiem, and the 2012 SFS Beethoven 9. That is my favorite recording of the 9th and Burden's tenor solo is a big part of that.
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