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Una Barry’s rich, dark toned ‘in memoriam aeterna’ could have been a love song from Rusalka itself while her ‘pleni sunt caeli’, rising radiantly out of the gentle Sanctus waltz, was an elating realization of Dvorak’s powerful transition to the weighty, ringing Hosanna.
The Times - Dvorak’s Requiem, Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonFor all the majestic moments, memories will surely linger on the soaring beauty of the voice of Una Barry.
East Anglian Times - Mendelssohn’s Elijah, St Edmundsbury CathedralSoprano Una Barry sang throughout with a moving sincerity, expressing Verdi’s profound emotions with a strength sustained to the end. Her radiant ‘Libera Me’ echoed the confidence of the ‘Ingemisco’. It was an illuminating performance which brought out the full colour and emotion of this masterpiece.
Yorkshire Post - Verdi’s Requiem, York MinisterSoprano Una Barry had a Germanic smoothness of tone, which blended perfectly to make for a genuine Beethoven sound.
Aberdeen Press - Beethoven’s Mass in C and Choral FantasiaUna Barry, soprano, has a voice of great beauty, perfectly controlled. She gave a most impressive performance. And her singing of ‘O Divine Redeemer’ will be long remembered.
Llanelli Star - Mendelssohn’s Hymn of Praise and Gounod’s O Divine Redeemer, Llanelli, South WalesSoprano soloist, Una Barry, had the lion’s share of the work for she also sang Poulenc’s Gloria earlier in the evening. In her taxing performance of ‘Upon a gloomy night’ she maintained an enviable clarity throughout.
East Anglian Times - Poulenc’s Gloria and Mathias’s Lux Aeterna, Bury St Edmunds Cathedral, SuffolkSoprano Una Barry pursues a very successful career whereby her extensive repertoire from the baroque right through to the present day, her outstanding musical ability, her vocal versatility and love of words have enabled her to accept solo engagements and broadcasts all over Britain, Ireland and Continental Europe as well as in Australia, Finland, Hong Kong, New York and Kenya. As the Daily Telegraph reported, Una has a “strong, true lyric soprano voice which is the expression of a marked intelligence and a vivid response”, and her lyric repertoire covers the operatic stage with her time at Kent Opera and Scottish Opera in roles such as The Governess in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, First Lady and Pamina in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Aminta in Mozart’s Il Rè Pastore and The Priestess in Gluck’s Iphigenie in Tauris at the Edinburgh International Festival as well as covers of more major roles and working for independent opera companies and operatic concerts.
Una has been the guest soprano for numerous performances abroad of Purcell, Bach and Handel with Pro Cantiones Antiqua, and has also given many well received and interesting song recital programmes, ranging from Purcell to Messiaen through to specifically commissioned contemporary music works. But it is now in oratorio and concert repertoire for which Una is best known and continues to be in demand in works from Bach’s Passions to Verdi’s Requiem. In fact, she has sung all the major and the more obscure oratorio works in most British major concert halls and cathedrals.
In Chester Cathedral it was Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis where “her quality of tone resulted in a thrilling performance”. Una also gave performances of Verdi’s Requiem in Glasgow, Hull, Chester Cathedral and Malvern Concert Hall, Bach’s St John Passion at King’s College Cambridge with Stephen Cleobury, and then Rutter’s Requiem and Chilcott’s Requiem with the Hong Kong Choir and Chamber Orchestra in St John’s Cathedral where she also gave song recitals with David Knowles for the Red Square Gallery and two live radio interviews for RTHK’s Radio 3 and Radio 4. Most recently she sang Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle with the Northampton Bach Choir and pianist David Owen Norris as well as Hendrik Andriessen’s Miroir de Peine with the international concert organist, Benjamin Saunders, at both Bradford and Leeds Cathedrals.
For Oratorio & Concert repertoire please scroll down:
Bach CPE | Magnificat |
Bach JS | Cantata No 51, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen |
Cantatas (Various) | |
Christmas Oratorio | |
Easter Oratorio | |
Magnificat (with Christmas Interpolations, First and Second Soprano parts) | |
Mass in B minor | |
Magnificat | |
Mass No 1 in F | |
Mass No 2 in A | |
Mass No 4 in G | |
St John Passion | |
St Luke Passion | |
St Matthew Passion | |
Te Deum in D | |
Beethoven | Choral Fantasis |
Mass in C | |
Missa Solemnis | |
Symphony No 9 | |
Berkeley | Missa Brevis |
Berlioz | Te Deum |
The Childhood of Christ | |
Bernstein | Chichester Psalms |
Biber | Requiem |
Bliss | Pastoral |
Brahms | German Requiem |
Liebeslieder Waltzer | |
Neue Liebeslieder Waltzer | |
Britten | A Ceremony of Carols |
A Hymn to the Virgin | |
Cantata Academica | |
Hymn to St Cecilia | |
Missa Brevis | |
Psalm 150 | |
Rejoice in the Lamb | |
Spring Symphony | |
War Requiem | |
Bruckener | Mass in D |
Mass in E b | |
Mass in F minor | |
Requiem | |
Te Deum | |
Burgon | Revelations |
Carter | Horizons |
Charpentier | Te Deum |
Coleridge-Taylor | The Song of Hiawatha |
Cornelius | Requiem |
Stabat Mater | |
Durufle | Requiem (Durufle’s soprano transposition) |
Dvorak | Mass in D |
Requiem | |
Stabat Mater | |
St Ludmila | |
Te Deum | |
Dyson | Canterbury Pilgrims |
Elgar | King Olaf |
The Apostles | |
The Kingdom | |
The Light of Life | |
The Spirit of England | |
Fanshaw | African Sanctus |
Faure | Cantique de Racine |
Messe Basse | |
Requiem | |
Finzi | Dies Natalis |
In Terra Pax | |
Gounod | Messe Sollennelle: St Cecilia |
The Redemption | |
Handel | Acis and Galatea |
Alexander’s Feast | |
Athalia | |
Chandos Anthem No 5: O Come Let us Sing | |
Chandos Anthem No 7: My Song shall be Alway | |
Dettingen Te Deum | |
Gloria | |
Israel in Egypt | |
Jeptha | |
Joshua | |
Judas Maccabeus (German and English) | |
Julius Caesar | |
Laudate Pueri Dominum | |
Messiah (all available versions) | |
Ode for St Cecilia’s Day | |
Passion | |
Psalm 112 | |
Salve Regina | |
Samson | |
Saul | |
Semele | |
Theodora | |
Haazen (arr) | Missa Luba |
Haydn | Creation (In German & English) |
Harmoniemesse | |
Heiligmesse | |
Maria Theresa Mass | |
Missa Brevis in F: Jugendmesse | |
Missa Cellensis in C: Mariazellermesse | |
Missa de St Joannis de Deo: Little Organ Mass | |
Missa di Tempore Belli: Paukenmesse | |
Missa Sancti Nicolai | |
Nelson Mass | |
Stabat Mater | |
The Seasons | |
Haydn M | Requiem |
Hedges | I Sing the birth: Canticles for Christmas opus 100 |
Honegger | King David |
Howells | Hymnus Paradisi |
Requiem | |
Hummel | Mass in Bb, Op 77 |
Janacek | Glagolitic Mass |
Otčenáš (Our Father) | |
Liszt | The Legend of St Elisabeth |
Mahler | Symphony No 2 |
Symphony No 4 | |
Mathias | Lux Aeterna |
Mendelssohn | Elijah |
Hear ny Prayer | |
Hymn of Praise | |
St Paul | |
Milner, Anthony | Roman Spring |
Mozart | Davide Penitente |
Litaniae Lauretanae, K195 | |
Litaniae de Venerabili Altaris Sacramento K125 | |
Litaniae de Venerabili Altaris Sacramento K243 | |
Exsultate Jubilate | |
Mass in C: Coronation, KV317 | |
Mass in C: Dominicus, K66 | |
Mass in C, in Honour of the Blessed Trinity | |
Mass in C Minor, K427 – (all available versions, and both first and second soprano parts) | |
Miss Brevis in C: Spazenmesse K220 | |
Missa Brevis in D Minor: K65 | |
Missa Brevis in G: K49 | |
Missa Solemnis in C minor: | |
Regina Coeli | |
Requiem in D Minor, K626 – | |
(all available versions and editions) | |
Solemn Vespers for a Confessor: Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, K339 | |
Solemn Vespers for Sunday: Vesperae de Dominica), K321 | |
Waisenhausmesse, K 139 | |
Mussorgsky | St Nicholas Mass |
Parry | Blest Pair of Sirens |
Paterson | Millennium Mass |
Pehkonen | Russian Requiem |
Pergolesi | Magnificat |
Stabat Mater | |
Poulenc | Gloria |
Stabat Mater | |
Purcell | Come Ye Sons of Art |
Dido and Aeneas (Dido) | |
Funeral Music for Queen Mary | |
King Arthur | |
The Fairy Queen | |
Rossini | Petite Messe Solennelle |
Stabat Mater | |
Rubbra | Festival Te Deum |
Rutter | Magnificat |
Requiem | |
Saint-Saëns | Mass Op 4 |
Oratorio de Noël, Op 12 | |
Requiem | |
Schubert | Magnificat in C |
Mass in A flat | |
Mass in C | |
Mass in Eb | |
Mass in G | |
Stabat Mater | |
Schütz | The Christmas Story |
Ps 98: Singet dem Herrn ein Neues Lied | |
Stanford | Requiem |
Te Deum | |
Stravinsky | Mass |
Les Noces | |
Sullivan | The Golden Legend |
Tippett | A Child or our Time |
Vaughan Williams | A Cotswold Romance |
Benedicite | |
Dona Nobis Pacem | |
Fantasia on Christmas Carols | |
Hodie | |
Hugh the Drover | |
Mass in G Minor | |
Pilgrim’s Progress | |
Sea Symphony | |
Serenade to Music | |
Verdi | Requiem |
Vivaldi | Dixit Dominus |
Gloria (both versions) | |
Weber | Mass in G |