Classical
UK
Norma Procter
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Leonard Bernstein, London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Leeds Festival Chorus, Finchley Children's Music Group, Highgate School Boys Choir, Orpington Junior Singers, Anna Reynolds, Norma Procter, John Mitchinson, Vladimir Ruždjak, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Gwenyth Annear, Erna Spoorenberg, Donald McIntyre & Hans Vollenweider
Leonard Bernstein, John Mitchinson, Vladimir Ruždjak, Gwenyth Annear, Anna Reynolds, Erna Spoorenberger, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Donald McIntyre, Hans Vollenweider, Leeds Festival Chorus, London Symphony Chorus, Orpington Junior Singers, Highgate School Boys Choir, Finchley Children's Music Group, London Symphony Orchestra & Norma Procter
Leonard Bernstein, John Mitchinson, Vladimir Ruždjak, Gwenyth Annear, Anna Reynolds, Erna Spoorenberger, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Donald McIntyre, Hans Vollenweider, Leeds Festival Chorus, London Symphony Chorus, Orpington Junior Singers, Highgate School Boys Choir, Finchley Children's Music Group, London Symphony Orchestra & Norma Procter
Leonard Bernstein, John Mitchinson, Vladimir Ruždjak, Gwenyth Annear, Anna Reynolds, Erna Spoorenberger, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Donald McIntyre, Hans Vollenweider, Leeds Festival Chorus, London Symphony Chorus, Orpington Junior Singers, Highgate School Boys Choir, Finchley Children's Music Group, London Symphony Orchestra & Norma Procter
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About Norma Procter
Hometown
Cleethorpes, England, UK
Born
1928
Genre
Classical
Mary Norma Procter was a leading British contralto in the years after World War II. She was a pupil of Roy Henderson and Alec Redshaw.
Although she did sing opera (including being chosen by Benjamin Britten to sing the title role of his The Rape of Lucretia at the 1958 Aldeburgh Festival and making her Covent Garden debut in Gluck's Orpheus) she was best known as a concert, oratorio, and recital singer.
She had a rich, warm voice that was strong and reliable, lacking the pinched or squally sound that often is associated with oratorio singing.
Fittingly, she made her debut singing Handel's Messiah at Southwark Cathedral in 1958 and went on to work with the leading conductors of her time, including Bruno Walter, Leonard Bernstein, Jascha Horenstein, Rafael Kubelik, Sir Malcolm Sargent, and Pierre Boulez. She sang in and recorded virtually every Mahler work with an alto part, including the first complete version of Mahler's Das klagende Lied. Others of her recordings include Handel's Alcina with Joan Sutherland, several Bach cantatas, Mendelssohn's Elijah, and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
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