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Like few other theatre works-The Magic Flute, A Midsummer Night's Dream-Tippett's first opera creates a wholly other place, one where human actions can be seen as in a tilted mirror. Since this is ind...

I have a great fondness for the lower string instruments: I am a bass player, my mother is a cellist, as are both my daughters; my own ensemble includes two violas, a cello and a bass, and for the ins...

Locke's Theatre, an orchestral work in three short movements, takes as its departure point incidental music written for Shakespeare's The Tempest by the seventeenth-century English composer Matthew Lo...

Gerald Barry's new opera is based on Lewis Carroll's two beloved books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. As with Barry's last opera, the lauded The Importance of Being E...

Deeply moved by his first visit to the city of Jerusalem with its seven gates, Krzysztof Penderecki composed this major vocal work to celebrate the city's 3,000th anniversary in 1995. Two years later,...

The Quiet è nato osservando una tempesta di neve dalla mia finestra, di notte, mentre i fiocchi danzavano alla debole luce della lampada esterna. Il desiderio di rendere udibile la tempesta è stato il...

Shortly after the war, Schoenberg composed in his 99-bar monumental work depicting the suffering and oppression of an entire people. The story written by the composer himself describes the terror of t...

Orquoy is inspired by the music of ancient Andean civilisations. The work evokes the atmosphere of fiestas and collective rites: bright colours, the movements of bodies, the ritual consumption of alco...

The form of this work is not so much based on the classical symphony, but is closer to a song cycle structure which has now grown to include 13 movements for choir and orchestra. The Romantic characte...

The history of the symphony is full of curiosities, ranging from works that are extremely long or scored for extensive instrumental forces to those of dubious authorship. There are also famous symphon...

Mikis Theodorakis' libretto for Antigonae is based on Sophocles' tragedy of the same name, but also incorporates sections of 'Seven against Thebes' by Aeschylus and 'The Phoenicians' by Euripides. The...

Aribert Reimann's ‘Trilogie lyrique' is based on three plays by Maurice Maeterlinck: In L' Intruse, a family is sitting at the table with their blind grandfather. They are waiting for the doctor to ar...

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