Susan Bickley / Roderick Will - Brian Elias: Electra Mourns [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.The title work on this new album by Brian Elias sets text from 'Electra', a 5th Century BC play by the Greek dramatist Sophocles. It is sung in the original ancient Greek by mezzo-soprano Susan Bickley, accompanied by cor anglais and string orchestra, and recounts the tale of Electra and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother and stepfather following the murder of their father.rr

Continuing Elias's fascination with ancient Greece, Geranos is a dramatic and rhythmic ensemble piece inspired by a ritual 'crane dance' associated with Theseus, the mythical king of Athens.rr

In contrast, the two song cycles on this album are set to texts by English poets. Meet me in the Green Glen for unaccompanied solo voice is a setting of five John Clare poems, here performed by both Susan Bickley and Roderick Williams, and Once did I breathe another's breath for baritone and piano was commissioned for the 2013 Ludlow Weekend of English Song; the poems (some anonymous) were all written in the first half of the seventeenth century.

Brian Elias_Geranos I

Brian Elias_Geranos II (Adonidia)

Brian Elias_Geranos III

Brian Elias_Meet me in the Green Glen I Meet me in the Green Glen

Brian Elias_Meet me in the Green Glen II Song

Brian Elias_Meet me in the Green Glen III Now is Past

Brian Elias_Meet me in the Green Glen IV Love's Pains

Brian Elias_Meet me in the Green Glen V Hesperus

Brian Elias_Once did I breathe anotheru2019s breath I Dost ask my dear

Brian Elias_Once did I breathe anotheru2019s breath II Dear, let us two each other spy

Brian Elias_Once did I breathe anotheru2019s breath III Now sleep, bind fast the flood of air

Brian Elias_Once did I breathe anotheru2019s breath IV Once did my thoughts both ebb and flow

Brian Elias_Once did I breathe anotheru2019s breath V There comes a night

Brian Elias_Electra Mourns

• Product Type: AUDIO CD
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