Peggy Glanville-Hicks: Sappho on 2 CDs
Sappho
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
- Artists:
- Peggy Glanville-Hicks
- Label:
- Toccata
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2012
- Item number:
- 3196233
- UPC/EAN:
- 5060113441546
- Release date:
- 19.11.2012
Product Information
Sappho, the last grand opera of Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912–90), was written in her stone cottage on Mykonos in 1963. Never heard before this recording, Sappho reflects Glanville-Hicks’ fascination with the orient and folk music, encapturing the colours of ancient Greece, with a heroic brass fanfare and epic writing for chorus, haunting woodwind solos and shimmering percussion evoking the stillness of crystal island waters. Deborah Polaski, who creates the role of the disenchanted Sappho, describes it as ‘the kind of music that singers want to sing’. The libretto, based on Lawrence Durrell’s verse-play, incorporates fragments of Sappho’s own verse.
Disk 1 von 2 (CD)
Sappho (Oper in 3 Akten) (Gesamtaufnahme)
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1 Overture (1. Akt)
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2 Hurry, Joy, hurry! - Is your lady up?
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3 Now, at least your are here
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4 My sleep is fragile like an eggshell is
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5 Minos!
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6 So, Phaon's back
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7 It must have semes like that to them
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8 Phaon, how is it Kreon did not ask you to stay
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9 Introduction - Phaon has become much thinner
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10 Boy! Bring us the laurel! - What are the fortunes of the world we live in?
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11 Wait, hear me first!
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12 Sappho! Sappho! - If death be noble
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13 Ah, it is you
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14 Nay, but always and forever
Disk 2 von 2 (CD)
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1 Introduction - What are you making? - Here's Minos coming!
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2 Hail to Pittakos! (2. Akt)
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3 Sea begotten heroes
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4 Admit it now - Now where is this brother of mine
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5 Ah, here you are at least
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6 You think I do not feel - Saphho! Saphho!
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7 Diomedes, oh Diomedes, what have you done? (3. Akt)
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8 Sleep now
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9 Priestess of the Oracle - Invocation
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10 O Mask!
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11 Introduction
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12 The voting must be over
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13 I am very tired
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14 Sappho! Sappho! It is exile
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15 Now everything is silence and remoteness
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