Peggy Glanville-Hicks - Sappho
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Label: Toccata Classics
Cat No: TOCC015455
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 29th October 2012
Contents
Artists
Deborah Polaski (soprano)Martin Homrich (tenor)
Scott MacAllister (tenor)
Roman Trekel (baritone)
Wolfgang Koch (bass-baritone)
John Tomlinson (bass)
Orquestra Gulbenkian and Coro Gulbenkian
Conductor
Jennifer CondonWorks
SapphoArtists
Deborah Polaski (soprano)Martin Homrich (tenor)
Scott MacAllister (tenor)
Roman Trekel (baritone)
Wolfgang Koch (bass-baritone)
John Tomlinson (bass)
Orquestra Gulbenkian and Coro Gulbenkian
Conductor
Jennifer CondonAbout
Deborah Polaski, who creates the role of the aging Sappho, describes the opera as ‘the kind of music that singers want to sing [....] it offers you so many facets, from colour to expressiveness within the line itself’.
The libretto was fashioned by the composer from Lawrence Durrell’s verse-play with Durrell’s approval - the booklet contains a photograph of the two of them in buoyant mood.
A stellar international cast donated their performances for the realisation of a dream - to enable Sappho to be heard for the first time in 2012, the centenary of both the composer and librettist.
Musical preparation, from deciphering the hand-written manuscript to conducting the ensemble with the Orquestra and Coro Gulbenkian, has been the work of the young Australian conductor Jennifer Condon, whose energy and passion for this hitherto unknown work brought this recording into being.
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