Claire Booth / Pamela Helen S - Ryan Wigglesworth Echo And Narcissus [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.Ryan Wigglesworth, Principal Guest Conductor of the Hallxe9, conducts his own orchestral works in this first full-length portrait album of his compositions. The album includes the powerful Echo and Narcissus, whose premiere was one of the highlights of the 2014 Aldeburgh Festival. Superbly performed by tenor Mark Padmore and mezzo Pamela Helen Stephen, with a female semi-chorus and the multi-talented Ryan Wigglesworth on piano, this piece sets Ted Hughes' text 'Echo and Narcissus' from his Tales from Ovid.rr

The poem 'Keep your eyes open' by John Berryman is married with poems by Robert Browning, Egon Schiele and Arthur Rimbaud in the song cycle Augenlieder, written for and performed by soprano Claire Booth, with the Hallxe9. The work receive the vocal prize at the 2010 British Composer Awards.rr

Locke's Theatre was commissioned for the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Aldeburgh Festival to celebrate Benjamin Britten's 100th birthday. Aware of Britten's own revival and adoption of English music, Wigglesworth has drawn inspiration from Matthew Locke, the leading English stage composer in the period before Purcell. Wigglesworth presents arrangements of three of Locke's movements, interspersed with his own musical responses.rr

Other works on this disc are the Violin Concerto, performed by Hungarian violinist Barnabxe1s Keleman and A First Book of Inventions for chamber orchestra.

Ryan Wigglesworth: Augenlieder I Eurydice to Orpheus

Ryan Wigglesworth: Augenlieder II Visionen

Ryan Wigglesworth: Augenlieder III Voyelles

Ryan Wigglesworth: Augenlieder IV Keep your eyes open

Ryan Wigglesworth: A First Book of Inventions

Ryan Wigglesworth: Echo and Narcissus - A Dramatic Cantata

Ryan Wigglesworth: Violin Concerto I Largamente, Allegro movendo

Ryan Wigglesworth: Violin Concerto II Arioso - molto calmo

Ryan Wigglesworth: Violin Concerto III Allegro furioso

Ryan Wigglesworth: Locke's Theatre I The First Music

Ryan Wigglesworth: Locke's Theatre II The First Music (double)

Ryan Wigglesworth: Locke's Theatre III Rustic Music

Ryan Wigglesworth: Locke's Theatre IV Rustic Music (double)

Ryan Wigglesworth: Locke's Theatre V Curtain Music

Ryan Wigglesworth: Locke's Theatre VI Curtain Music (double)

• Genre: Classical
• Product Type: AUDIO CD
• Barcode: 5023363021326

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