Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: ALBCD033
- Format: CD
- UPC: 5060158190331
- Street Date: 01/12/18
- PreBook Date: 12/08/17
- Label: Albion Records »
- Genre: Classical
- Run Time: 40 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Year of Production: 2017
- Box Lot: 25
- Territory: US,CA
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Heather Lowe & Britten Sinfonia & Joyful Company Of Singers - Beyond My Dream: Music For Greek Plays
Vocal and orchestral music for three Greek plays, written in 1911 but never performed. A first performance of wonderful music by Vaughan Williams.
- List Price: $15.99
- Your Price: $15.99
- In Stock: 28
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Albion Records is proud to present this new album of unknown music from the early maturity of Ralph Vaughan Williams. In 1911, Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote music for three plays by Euripides, then newly translated into English verse by Gilbert Murray. He wrote music that he considered worthy of the plays, while also satisfying the requirements of Isadora Duncan (for dancing) and Gilbert Murray (who was anxious that the music should not overwhelm the poetry). Whether experimental or not, Murray finally concluded that he liked it very much. There was a single public performance, of which we know very little, but none of the music was ever performed with the plays for which it had been written. This beautiful music, for mezzo soprano, female chorus and orchestra has been transcribed from the scores and parts, and is recorded for the first time.
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'This highly unusual recording is worth your time and investment'
—Fisch, American Record Guide
