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Sappho

CD

Sappho : opera in three acts / Peggy Glanville-Hicks.

  • Published by Toccata Classics — 2012 [TOCC 0154-55] — 2 CDs (129 min.)
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  • Library Availability: CD 2413 — Available for loan

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This item may be available to purchase from the Australian Music Centre.
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Featured Australian works

  Work Composer PerformersDuration
Sappho (1965) for opera
Recorded/performed at: Grande Auditório, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal, on Jul 12.		 Peggy Glanville-Hicks and Lawrence Durrell Orquestra Gulbenkian, Coro Gulbenkian, Deborah Polaski, Martin Homrich, Scott MacAllister, Roman Trekel, Wolfgang Koch, John Tomlinson, Jacquelyn Wagner, Bettina Jensen, Maria Markina, Laurence Meikle, Jennifer Condon 2 hours, 8 mins, 7 sec.

Product details

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.

Duration: 129 min.

Contents note:

In 3 acts.

Booklet includes background information about the work and the recording project, libretto, and biographical information about composer, librettist and performers.

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