Martyn Brabbins Bbc Scottish - Michael Tippett New Year [CD]

This is the first commercial recording of Michael Tippett's opera New Year, featuring a stellar cast, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins.

This major 2-disc release was recorded in Glasgow in April 2024 ahead of the live performance given with stage director Victoria Newlyn.Described by Tippett's acclaimed biographer, Oliver Soden, as the recording that fills a gaping hole in the history of British opera, providing the missing link between Benjamin Britten and Mark-Anthony Turnage, New Year is a space-aged fairytale opera that moves between two worlds of 'Somewhere and Today' and 'Nowhere and Tomorrow'.

Two worlds collide in Tippett's New Year as a visitor from the future ('Nowhere Tomorrow') helps the central reclusive character escape from their personal fears and fantasies and embrace the frightening urban realities of 'Somewhere Today'. The cast features: soprano Rhian Lois as Jo Ann, a trainee children's doctor, baritone Ross Ramgobin as Donny, her young brother; mezzo-soprano Susan Bickley as Nan, their foster mother; baritone Roland Wood as Merlin, the computer wizard; tenor Robert Murray as Pelegrin, the space pilot; soprano Rachel Nicholls as Regan, their boss; and tenor Alan Oke as the Presenter.

'Martyn Brabbins' Hyperion series of Tippett symphonies was stunning and a worthy successor to the Hickox records. Here in this first recording of New Year, he has delivered another document to enhance the legacy of the great man. The notes in this issue contain one of the best essays of its type I have ever read.' – Music Web International

'Tippett biographer Oliver Soden describes New Year as an important link in the British operatic chain that connects Britten and Mark-Anthony Turnage. In this first commercial recording of the 1989 work, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins and a slew of star vocalists provide significant evidence to support Soden's observation.' – BBC Music Magazine (4 stars)

New Year: Act 1 Prelude - 'Our world is wicked...'

New Year: Act 3 Prelude - 'Our world's still wicked'...'When the dreaded moment'

New Year: Scene 1 - 'Safe, safe, Safe'

New Year: 'Donny, Donny, Nan is here'

New Year: 'Donny, Donny, why are you here?'

New Year: 'That will do now'

New Year: 'Children of the terror town'

New Year: Donny's Dream

New Year: Donny's Skarade

New Year: 'Pelegrin is here'

New Year: 'Stop now for that's enough'

New Year: Interlude - 'Oh, if we could see them in their saucer'

New Year: 'Waifs and orphans...'

New Year: Scene 2 - 'Dark, dark, dark'

New Year: Interlude - 'Nowhere...is where we dream we may'

New Year: The Paradise Dance

New Year: Scene 2 - Tomorrow's laboratory

New Year: Interlude - 'Dancers we must hurry, hurry'

New Year: 'Who is that?'

New Year: Scene 3 - FINALE

New Year: 'Manifest, manifest am I'

New Year: 'Go, go, go'...'Time must stand still'

New Year: Interlude: 'Mysterious is the Dream'

New Year: Scene 3 - 'I am Pelegrin...'

New Year: Act 2 Prelude - 'Watch while they dance'

New Year: Scene 1 - 'Mummers and mountebanks'

New Year: The Shaman Dance

New Year: The Hunt - 'Round and About'...'The Beating Out'

New Year: Scene 2 - 'Thrice magic mountain'

New Year: 'Who, who are you, strange people?'

New Year: 'Pelegrin...you betrayed me'

New Year: 'Stand back, stand back'

New Year: Scene 3 - 'Hand clap him'

• Genre: Classical
• Product Type: AUDIO CD
• Barcode: 5023363029124
• Release Date: March 14, 2025

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