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composer
Glanville-Hicks, Peggy
title
Glanville-Hicks: Sappho, Opera in Three Acts
performers
Condon, Jennifer
catalogue number
TOCC 0154-55
description
Sappho, the last grand opera of Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912–90), was written in her stone cottage on Mykonos in 1963. Never heard before this recording, Sappho reflects Glanville-Hicks’ fascination with the orient and folk music, encapturing the colours of ancient Greece, with a heroic brass fanfare and epic writing for chorus, haunting woodwind solos and shimmering percussion evoking the stillness of crystal island waters. Deborah Polaski, who creates the role of the disenchanted Sappho, describes it as ‘the kind of music that singers want to sing’. The libretto, based on Lawrence Durrell’s verse-play, incorporates fragments of Sappho’s own verse.
format
CD x 2
label
Toccata Classics
release date
11/26/12
EAN / barcode
5060113441546
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MusicWeb International: 'Nominee for Recording of the Year' (2013)
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