Background
He grew up in West London with his father, the writer Brian Glanville.
He grew up in West London with his father, the writer Brian Glanville.
University of Oxford.
In the final chapter of his memoir Glanville claimed to have found his true identity as a Jew. Among his opera recordings Glanville sang the role of Armando in Donizetti"s L"assedio di Calais for Rara. His later work as a singer moved away from the opera house towards the recital hall with the song cycle Yiddish Winterreise – A Holocaust Survivor’s Inner Journey told through, released on the Naxos label in 2010.
Using songs from the Yiddish folk tradition, many in original arrangements by the composer/accompanist Alexander Knapp, Glanville took Schubert"s Winterreise "as a symbol for the destruction of home and family".
The programme was performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, District of Columbia under the auspices of Pro Musica Hebraica. A second programme of Di Sheyne Milnerin – A Yiddish Die Schöne Müllerin was released on the Nimbus label in 2012 and performed live at Symphony Space, New York in 2011 and Street John"s, Smith Square in October 2012.
Glanville will be returning to the Kennedy Center in March 2016 to perform secular songs by Salomon Sulzer for Pro Musica Hebraica in the programme, "Wandering Stars". Since 2008 Glanville has been focusing on the history and traditions of Puglia and performing as singer and ciaramella player with the first London-based, pizzica and southern Italian traditional music group, Amaraterra.