Brian Elias - Laments/ Ratushinskaya Songs

ID: NMCD064 (EAN: 5023363006422)  | 1 CD | DDD
Released in: 2001

LABEL:

NMC

Collection:

Orchestral Works

Subcollection:

Orchestra

Composers:

ELIAS, Brian

Interprets:

KING, Mary (mezzo-soprano) | WYN-ROGERS, Catherine

Ensembles:

BBC Singers Choir | BBC Symphony Orchestra

Conductors:

BRABBINS, Martyn | OTAKA, Tadaaki

Other info:

Elias's acclaimed settings of the anguished poetry of exiled Russian author Irina Ratushinskaya are coupled with Laments, which sets traditional folk texts of loss and mourning in the nearly extinct Sicilian-Greek dialect, Grico

"Shot through with furious dark passion"The Sunday Times 2000