Advantages: Original instruments, classical greek myth Disadvantages: Serious and tragic
Two CD set: Orpheus and Euridice
Awarded the Gramophone award in 2002, Orpheus and Euridice is a recording of Hadyn's last opera. It is an opera seria relating the tragic Greek myth. The opera was never performed in Haydn'd lifetime.
The myth in a nutshell goes as follows. Eurydice, a nymph, is in despair as she contemplates her forthcoming marriage to Arideus. She is ready to die, but Orpheus saves her life by playing his harp and singing. Eurydice?s father, Creon, agrees to let her to marry Orpheus. When Eurydice is bitten by a snake and dies, Orpheus is inconsolable. He consults the Sibyl, who takes him to the underworld to search for her. Pluto allows Orpheus to search for Eurydice in the Elysian fields, but Orpheus is warned not to look at his wife. He cannot resist glancing at her, and loses her for a second time. As he ...
Advantages: A useful form of expression, a way of releasing emotions Disadvantages: some can be very dreary
away to plenty of people and each feels that it gives them solace.
Elegy to Randy
I'll see you in the rainbow when the showers give way to sun,
and in the early morning when the day has just begun;
I'll hear you in the Winter as the wind blows through the trees,
whether strong as fiercest hurricane or gentle summer breeze.
In snow flakes falling softly, and blossom buds in May,
there's much will make me think of you, it's sad you've gone away.
But, you are in a better place, and finally at peace.
your spirit lives forever, no more pain, no more disease.
And in the hearts of we, the ones you've loved and left behind,
There'll always be a something, that will bring your face to mind.
So, onward guardian angels, keep this man-child safe with you,
uplift his innocent spirit that he may begin his life anew,
unhampered by ...
poet831 23.09.2002
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Product details
Title
Birtwistle: Orpheus Elegies
Composer
Sir Harrison Birtwistle (b 1934); Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Main Performer
Andrew Watts (Countentener); Helen Tunstall (Harp); Melinda Maxwell (Oboe); Ben Fullbrook (Marimba); Claire Seaton (Soprano)
Date of Release
22/06/2009
Label / Distributor
Oboe Classics / Discovery Records Ltd
Pieces in Set
1
Genre(s)
Chamber, Vocal and choral
Stereo
Stereo
EAN
5023581202026
Work 1
Work Title
(26) Orpheus Elegies
Excerpt(s)
1. (26) Orpheus Elegies
Composer
Sir Harrison Birtwistle (b 1934)
Genre
Chamber
Main Performer
Andrew Watts (Countentener), Helen Tunstall (Harp), Melinda Maxwell (Oboe)
Opera Part(s)
Andrew Watts, Helen Tunstall, Melinda Maxwell
Work 2
Work Title
Cantata No. 21, 'Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis', BWV21
Excerpt(s)
1. Aria: Seufzer, Tränen, Kummer, Not (S)
Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Genre
Vocal & Choral
Date Written
c1714
Main Performer
Andrew Watts (Countentener), Ben Fullbrook (Marimba), Claire Seaton (Soprano), Helen Tunstall (Harp), Melinda Maxwell (Oboe), Tom Verity (Bass clarinet), William Stafford (Clarinet)
Opera Part(s)
Andrew Watts, Ben Fullbrook, Claire Seaton, Helen Tunstall, Melinda Maxwell, Tom Verity, William Stafford
Work 3
Work Title
Cantata No. 102, 'Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben', BWV102
Excerpt(s)
1. Aria: Weh! der Seele (A)
Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Genre
Vocal & Choral
Date Written
1726
Main Performer
Andrew Watts (Countentener), Ben Fullbrook (Marimba), Claire Seaton (Soprano), Helen Tunstall (Harp), Melinda Maxwell (Oboe), Tom Verity (Bass clarinet), William Stafford (Clarinet)
Opera Part(s)
Andrew Watts, Ben Fullbrook, Claire Seaton, Helen Tunstall, Melinda Maxwell, Tom Verity, William Stafford
Andrew Watts (Countentener), Ben Fullbrook (Marimba), Claire Seaton (Soprano), Helen Tunstall (Harp), Melinda Maxwell (Oboe), Tom Verity (Bass clarinet), William Stafford (Clarinet)
Opera Part(s)
Andrew Watts, Ben Fullbrook, Claire Seaton, Helen Tunstall, Melinda Maxwell, Tom Verity, William Stafford
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