{"product_id":"802153","title":"Claire Booth \/ Pamela Helen S - Ryan Wigglesworth Echo And Narcissus [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRyan Wigglesworth, Principal Guest Conductor of the Hall\\xe9, 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.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 Hall\\xe9. The work receive the vocal prize at the 2010 British Composer Awards.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLocke'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.\\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther works on this disc are the Violin Concerto, performed by Hungarian violinist Barnab\\xe1s Keleman and A First Book of Inventions for chamber orchestra.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRyan Wigglesworth: Augenlieder I Eurydice to Orpheus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRyan Wigglesworth: Augenlieder II Visionen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRyan Wigglesworth: Augenlieder III Voyelles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRyan Wigglesworth: Augenlieder IV Keep your eyes open\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRyan Wigglesworth: A First Book of Inventions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRyan Wigglesworth: Echo and Narcissus - A Dramatic Cantata\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRyan Wigglesworth: Violin Concerto I Largamente, Allegro movendo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRyan Wigglesworth: Violin Concerto II Arioso - molto calmo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRyan Wigglesworth: Violin Concerto III Allegro furioso\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRyan Wigglesworth: Locke's Theatre I The First Music\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRyan Wigglesworth: Locke's Theatre II The First Music (double)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRyan Wigglesworth: Locke's Theatre III Rustic Music\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRyan Wigglesworth: Locke's Theatre IV Rustic Music (double)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRyan Wigglesworth: Locke's Theatre V Curtain Music\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRyan Wigglesworth: Locke's Theatre VI Curtain Music (double)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55143197016449,"sku":"802153","price":16.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/41d31iabR9L._SL1500.jpg?v=1767676233","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/802153","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}