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The mask of Orpheus / Harrison Birtwistle.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 28724
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- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Birtwistle, Harrison.
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Undetermined
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Electronic music.
- Orpheus (Greek mythological character)--Drama.
- Orpheus.
- Orpheus (Greek mythological character).
- Genre:
- Electronic music.
- Drama.
- Sound recordings.
- Operas.
- Physical Description:
- 3 audio discs (2:42:17) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- London : NMC Recordings, [1997]
- Language Note:
- Sung principally in English and, in part, an invented language.
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- stereo
- digital recording
- Participant:
- Marie Angel, soprano ; Jean Rigby, Anne-Marie Owens, mezzo-sopranos ; Jon Garrison, Peter Bronder, tenors ; Alan Opie, Omar Ebrahim, baritones ; supporting soloists ; BBC Singers ; BBC Symphony Orchestra ; Andrew Davis, Martyn Brabbins, conductors.
- Notes:
- "Lyric tragedy in three acts"--Program notes.
- Libretto by Peter Zinovieff.
- Employs extensive electronic music sections realized by Barry Anderson in association with IRCAM.
- Recorded live at the Royal Festival Hall, London, Apr. 11-12, 1996.
- Compact discs.
- Includes booklet of program notes in English with French and German translations (79 p. : ports.) and libretto (69 [i.e., 138] p.).
- Contains:
- Birtwistle, Harrison. Mask of Orpheus. Libretto.
- OCLC:
- 39784939
- Publisher Number:
- 023363005029
- NMC D050 NMC Recordings
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