Offer,Saxton: The Wandering Jew
Roderick Williams (Wandering Jew), Tim Mirfin (Jesus/Beggar), Teresa Cahill (Widowed Mother), Hilary Summers (Fortune Teller), Louise Winter (Kundry), Jeffrey Lloyd Roberts (Faust), Brindley Sherratt (Mephistopheles), Graeme Danby (Odin), Jeremy White (Old Man)
BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC...
There's a hint of Wagnerian majesty in the [Odin] scene, otherwise the shadow of Britten lies long over the music, not only in the shape of the melodic lines, but also in the clarity of the orchestration.... — More…
2 CDs
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Saxton: The Wandering Jew, Scene 1
- Roderick Williams
- BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra
- André de Ridder
Pt. 1, After Nearly Two Thousand Years of Wandering, Here
Pt. 2, Sixty Thousand Soldiers
Interlude
Saxton: The Wandering Jew, Scene 2
- Roderick Williams
- BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra
- André de Ridder
Wind-blown, the Night Sand Is Cold
Interlude
Saxton: The Wandering Jew, Scene 3
- Roderick Williams, Teresa Cahill, Jeremy White, Lydia Kalian, Rudi Goodman
- BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra
- André de Ridder
Pt. 1, Centuries of Wandering Made Me Lose All Sense of Passing Time
Pt. 2, Mama, May We Hear a Tale?
Pt. 3, They're Asleep
Interlude
Saxton: The Wandering Jew, Scene 4
- Roderick Williams, Louise Winter, Jeffrey Lloyd Roberts, Brindley Sherratt
- BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra
- André de Ridder
I Know What This Waiter Will Say
Interlude
Saxton: The Wandering Jew, Scene 5
- Louise Winter, Roderick Williams, Jeffrey Lloyd Roberts, Brindley Sherratt, Graeme Danby
- BBC Symphony Orchestra
- André de Ridder
Pt. 1, What Is This Place, So Wild, So Cold?
Pt. 2, This Mortal God
Interlude
Saxton: The Wandering Jew, Scene 6
- Roderick Williams, Tim Mirfin, Hilary Summers, Simon Paisley Day
- BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra
- André de Ridder
Pt. 1, By Canals, in Streets Overflowing with Life
Pt. 2, Venice's Carnival... The Human Need for Song, Dance, Food, Drink, Companionship
Pt. 3, I've Seen Centuries of Dancers
Pt. 4, For Some Time I Wandered Amongst the Crowds of Swirling
Pt. 5, Roll Up, Roll Up
Interlude
Saxton: The Wandering Jew, Scene 7
- Roderick Williams, Tim Mirfin
- BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra
- André de Ridder
Having Had a Narrow Escape
Interlude
Saxton: The Wandering Jew, Scene 8
- Roderick Williams
- BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra
- André de Ridder
Daybreak, the Sand Grows Warm