Orange Mountain: OMM0039Glass, P: Waiting for the Barbarians |
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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  0801837003925 OMM0039 | based on the novel by Nobel Prize winning South African author J M Coetzee with a libretto by Oscar winning playwright Christopher Hampton
Richard Salter & Eugene Perry Erfurt Theatre Company, Dennis Russell Davies World premiere recording of Philip Glass’s recent highly-praised opera based on J M Coetzee’s powerful novel and set to a libretto by Christopher Hampton. This “genuinely moving” work, a harrowing allegory of the war between oppressors and the oppressed, receives its UK premiere at London’s Barbican on 12 June 2008 with the same cast, orchestra, chorus and conductor, Dennis Russell Davies, as on these two beautifully-packaged CDs. “This recording, taken from the 2005 premiere production in Erfurt in Germany, is well balanced, and Christopher Hampton's well-crafted libretto comes across clearly, with Richard Slater leading the cast as a sympathetic Magistrate.” The Telegraph, 5th July 2008 “Dominated by Richard Salter’s astonishing performance as the magistrate” The Guardian “First heard in the UK at the Barbican last month, [Waiting for the Barbarians] is the timeless tale of one man's stand against military tyranny, seen by Glass as a sequel to the themes of social change through non-violence explored in his Satyagraha. It is nobly performed by Richard Salter and other soloists with a fine German orchestra under Dennis Russell Davies.” The Observer, 27th July 2008 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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