Vincenzo Bellini - Bellini: Norma - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Sappho the last grand opera of Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-90) was written in her stone cottage on the island of Mykonos in 1963. Polaski who creates the role of the aging Sappho describes the opera as 'the kind of music that singers want to sing'.

Havergal Brian's late creativity is almost unparalleled in musical history- in the last two decades of his life he wrote 25 symphonies. No. 7, the last of his truly large-scale symphonies, was inspired by Goethe's autobiographical account of his time as a student in Strasbourg. Symphony No. 16 is a tough single-movement work, evoking Ancient Greece and the savagery of the Persian Wars. In bright contrast The Tinker's Wedding is a sparkling comedy overture based on the play by J.M. Synge. The New Russia State Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1990. In 2002 Yuri Bashmet became it's director, opening a new chapter in it's history and bringing his own inimitable manner of interpretation, whereby each concert evokes the feeling that the music is being created anew.

W.a. Mozart - Nozze Di Figaro for String Quartet [COMPACT DISCS] date 06/10/2008