Sappho

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Description

Sappho the last grand opera of Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-90) was written in her stone cottage on the island of Mykonos in 1963. Polaski who creates the role of the aging Sappho describes the opera as 'the kind of music that singers want to sing'.

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Specifications

  • Format
    CD
  • Composers
    Peggy Glanville-Hicks
  • Orchestra
    Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra, Lisbon
  • Brand
  • Model #
    TOCC0154-55
  • Number of Pieces
    2
  • Available Date
    11/13/2012

Tracks

  • Disc 1
  • 1 Overture
  • 2 Hurry, Joy, Hurry!... Is Your Lady Up?
  • 3 Now, at Last You Are Here
  • 4 My Sleep Is Fragile Like An Eggshell Is
  • 5 Minos!
  • 6 So, Phaon's Back
  • 7 It Must Have Seemed Like That to Them
  • 8 Phaon, How Is It Kreon Did Not Ask You to Stay
  • 9 Introduction... Phaon Has Become Much Thinner... the Nymph in the Fountain
  • 10 Boy! Bring Us the Laurel!... What Are the Fortunes of the World We Live In?
  • 11 Wait, Hear Me First!... the Epigram Contest
  • 12 Sappho! Sappho!... If Death Be Noble
  • 13 Ah, It Is You
  • 14 Nay, But Always and Forever
  • Disc 2
  • 1 Inroduction... What Are You Making?... Here's Minos Coming!
  • 2 Hail to Pittakos!
  • 3 Sea Begotten Heroes
  • 4 Admit It Now... Now, Where Is His Brother of Mine
  • 5 Ah, Here You Are at Last
  • 6 You Think I Do Not Feel... Sappho! Sappho!
  • 7 Diomedes, Oh Diomedes, What Have You Done?
  • 8 Sleep Now
  • 9 Priestess of the Oracle... Invocation
  • 10 Oh Mask!
  • 11 Introduction
  • 12 The Voting Must Be Over
  • 13 I Am Very Tired
  • 14 Sappho! Sappho! It Is Exile
  • 15 Now Everything Is Silence and Remoteness