Toby Young - Beowulf | Signum SIGCD632

Toby Young - Beowulf

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Label: Signum

Cat No: SIGCD632

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 18th September 2020

Contents

Artists

Timothy West (narrator)
Elin Manahan Thomas (sopran)
Armonico Consort

Conductor

Christopher Monks

Works

Young, Toby

Beowulf

Artists

Timothy West (narrator)
Elin Manahan Thomas (sopran)
Armonico Consort

Conductor

Christopher Monks

About

The story of Beowulf, although thousands of years old, is still loved by many all over the world. This recording of a new musical telling of the story, composed by Toby Young, blurs traditional sense of the genre of classical music by merging it with folk and popular music. This fusion is what makes Beowulf a fantastic story.

The greatest versions of the story are not the simple good versus bad, but the ones which involve slight ambiguous points; ones which allow the reader/listener to make his/her mind up about what is exactly going on. The combination of Toby Young’s score and Jennifer Thorp’s libretto creates this ambiguity perfectly.

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