Volante Opera Productions is proud to present our current releases available on CD and digital download.
Our demo recordings are created using sampled instruments painstakingly combined and balanced to create the orchestra - the intent being that with our limited resources and budget we can get as close a representation as possible of what these pieces would sound like when played by a symphonic orchestra.
As for the professional singers, they have all given their time freely with only a promise of a share of profits should these projects reach that goal.
We would love to hear these pieces performed and recorded by a real orchestra and full chorus but until that time we feel that these recordings are a wonderful representation of the work and do the important job of making these powerful pieces accessible to the general public.
All physical copies of our released recordings are available either from ourselves
(head to "Purchase" above), Prima Facie or from any major online retailer.
Demo Recordings
Our 2018 Demo Recording of Paul Corfield Godfrey's "The Fall of Gondolin: epic scenes from the Silmarillion after the mythology of J.R.R. Tolkien" was released by Prima Facie Records in September 2018. Please click on the above link to see more.
Our 2019 Demo Recording of Paul Corfield Godfrey's "Beren & Luthien: epic scenes from the Silmarillion after the mythology of J.R.R. Tolkien" was released by Prima Facie Records in August 2019. Please click on the above link to see more.
Our 2020 Demo Recording of Paul Corfield Godfrey's "The Children of Hurin: epic scenes from the Silmarillion after the mythology of J.R.R. Tolkien" was released by Prima Facie Records in April 2020. Please click on the above link to see more.
Our 2022 Demo Recording of Paul Corfield Godfrey's "Feanor: epic scenes from the Silmarillion after the works of J.R.R. Tolkien" was released by Prima Facie Records on the 4th April 2020. Please click on the above link to see more.
Our 2022 Demo Recording of Paul Corfield Godfrey's opera "The Nightingale and the Rose" based upon the short story by Oscar Wilde was released on 5th December 2020. Also on the album there will be recordings of his setting of "The Sphinx", again after Oscar Wilde, and "Hymnus Mysticus", a setting of Aleister Crowley. Please click on the above link to see more.
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Currently we are producing a demo recording of a new and final part to Paul Corfield Godfrey's setting of JRR Tolkien's "The Silmarillion" entitled "The War of Wrath". This is being produced using sampled instruments with real voices singing all parts. Please click on the above link to see the latest progress of the project.
Currently we are producing a demo recording of Paul Corfield Godfrey's new opera - a setting of Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit". This is being produced using sampled instruments with real voices singing all parts. Please click on the above link to see the latest progress of the project.
Other Recordings
We are currently working on a recording of the songs of Harold Fraser-Simson (1872-1944). The English composer is best known for his light music and musical comedies. In his later career he set numerous children's poems to music, notably the works of A. A. Milne and Lewis Carroll. This would be the a complete recording of his Milne and Carroll songs - some of which will be the first time on record.