London Sinfonietta & David Atherton - Tippett: King Priam (1995)

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Artist: London Sinfonietta, David Atherton, Ann Murray, Heather Harper, Felicity Palmer, Norman Bailey, Philip Langridge, Robert Tear, Stephen Roberts, Thomas Allen, Yvonne Minton
Title: Tippett: King Priam
Year Of Release: 1981 / 1995
Label: Chandos
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks + booklet)
Total Time: 2:07:33
Total Size: 532 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

01. Act I: Prelude (Chorus)
02. Act I Scene 1: What is it, Nurse? (Hecuba, Nurse, Priam)
03. Act I Scene 1: Old man of Troy, you're welcome (Priam, Old Man)
04. Act I Scene 1: Then am I no longer mother to this child (Hecuba, Old Man)
05. Act I Scene 1: A father and a King (Priam)
06. Act I Scene 1: The Queen is right (Priam)
07. Act I Interlude 1: Thus shall a story begin (Nurse, Old Man, Young Guard)
08. Act I Scene 2: The bull is away over there (Huntsmen, Hector, Priam)
09. Act I Scene 2: They have taken my bull (Paris, Hector),
10. Act I Scene 2: Father, he's a shepherd boy (Hector, Priam, Paris)
11. Act I Scene 2: So I'd hoped it might be (Priam, Old Man)
12. Act I Interlude 2: Ah, but life, life is a bitter charade (Nurse, Young Guard, Old Man, Wedding Guests)
13. Act I Scene 3: Ah, ah … (Helen, Paris)
14. Act I Scene 3: Divine go-between, that's who I am (Hermes, Paris)
15. Act 1 Scene 3: Lady Athene, if I honour you … (Paris, Athene)
16. Act I Scene 3: Lady Hera, if I honour you … (Paris, Hera, Hermes)
17. Act I Scene 3: Aphrodite, if I honour you … (Paris, Aphrodite, Hera, Athene, Hermes)
18. Act II Scene 1: So you've given up fighting! (Hector, Priam)
19. Act II Scene 1: So Trojans honour Menelaus … (Priam, Paris)
20. Act II Interlude 1: Hermes, Hermes, with the winged feet come quick! (Old Man, Hermes)
21. Act II Scene 2: O rich-soiled land (Achilles)
22. Act II Scene 2: Why are weeping, Patroclus? (Achilles, Patroclus)
23. Act II Interlude 2: O, O, what a threat to Troy (Old Man, Hermes)
24. Act II Scene 3: A hero in Achilles' armour … (Hermes, Paris, Priam)
25. Act II Scene 3: All Trojans, all fought bravely (Hector, Priam, Paris, Achilles, Old Man)
26. Act III Scene 1: Lady Andromache, should we not light the fire? (Serving Woman, Andromache)
27. Act III Scene 1: Daughter Andromache, you must go out … (Hecuba, Andromache)
28. Act III Scene 1: Did you hear? (Andromache, Helen, Hecuba)
29. Act III Scene 1: Let her rave (Helen)
30. Act III Scene 1: O that my ears should hear impiety so gross! (Hecuba, Andromache, Helen)
31. Act III Scene 1: How you shall go (Andromache, Hecuba, Serving Woman)
32. Act III Interlude 1: No … No … No … We have it from the runner (Serving Women)
33. Act III Scene 2: What is happening? (Priam, Paris)
34. Act III Scene 2: A crime (Young Guard, Old Man, Priam)
35. Act III Scene 2: The soul will answer from where the pain is quickest (Nurse, Priam, Young Guard, Old Man)
36. Act III Interlude 2
37. Act III Scene 3: Priam! Here! What is this? (Achilles, Priam)
38. Act III Scene 3: I clasp your knees, Achilles (Priam)
39. Act III Scene 3: Old man, I am touched (Achilles, Priam)
40. Act III Interlude 3 — (Hermes)
41. Act III Scene 4: Where is my father, where is Priam? (Paris, Priam)
42. Act III Scene 4: Ah, ah! Ah, ah! (Hecuba, Paris, Priam)
43. Act III Scene 4: Ah, ha, ha,ha (Andromache, Paris, Priam)
44. Act III Scene 4: Ah, ah! (Paris, Helen, Priam),

London Sinfonietta & David Atherton - Tippett: King Priam (1995)

Few composers this century have shocked their audience as consistently as Michael Tippett. Always one step ahead, he followed the lyricism of The Midsummer Marriage with the stark King Priam, which brings Homeric mythology tangibly and violently to life. Sound-wise, it is as stripped down as Tippett's music was to get; a mosaic of ideas and references which underpins the stage action remorselessly at every turn. This heightens the very human dimension of the drama, both in the interplay of characters on stage and in the obvious highpoints: Achilles's chilling war-cry which closes Act 2, or the trio of Hecuba, Andromache and Helen in Act 3--presenting the female response to war and destruction with heart-rending anguish. Recorded back in 1980, David Atherton's performance has lost nothing in sheer physical immediacy; the excellent cast, featuring Norman Bailey, Heather Harper and Yvonne Minton, projects the human tragedy with real intensity. A landmark recording of a great opera, still as sadly relevant today as ever. -- Richard Whitehouse

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