Peggy Glanville-Hicks: Sappho, opera / Deborah Polaski; Martin Homrich; Scott MacAllister; Roman Trekel; Wolfgang Koch; John Tomlinson

Peggy Glanville-Hicks: Sappho, / Deborah Polaski; Martin Homrich; Scott MacAlliste
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Label: Toccata
Catalog No: TOC 154-55
Format: CD
Release Date: 2012-11-13
Number of Discs: 2
Running time: 2 hr. 8 min.
Mono/Stereo: Stereo
UPC Code: 5060113441546

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> Sappho - Act II Scene 3: Introduction - What are you making? … Here's Minos coming (Sappho, Phaon, Chorus)
> Sappho - Act II Scene 3: Hail to Pittakos (Phaon, Minos, Chorus)
> Sappho - Act II Scene 4: Sea begotten heroes (Chorus)
> Sappho - Act II Scene 4: Admit it now … Now, where is this brother of mine (Sappho, Pittakos, Kreon, Phaon)
> Sappho - Act II Scene 4: Ah, here you are at last (Pittakos, Sappho)
> Sappho - Act II Scene 4: Aria: You think I do not feel … Sappho! Sappho! (Pittakos, Sappho, Minos)
> Sappho - Act III Scene 5: Diomedes, oh Diomedes, what have you done? (Sappho, Diomedes)
> Sappho - Act III Scene 5: Sleep now (Sappho, Diomedes)
> Sappho - Act III Scene 6: Priestess of the Oracle … Invocation (Sappho, Priestress, Chorus)
> Sappho - Act III Scene 6: Oh Mask! (Kreon, Sappho, Chorus)
> Sappho - Act III Scene 7: Introduction
> Sappho - Act III Scene 7: Now everything is silence and remoteness (Sappho)
> Sappho - Act III Scene 7: The voting must be over (Minos, Sappho)
> Sappho - Act III Scene 7: Aria: I am very tired (Minos, Sappho)
> Sappho - Act III Scene 7: Sappho! Sappho! It is exile (Pittakos, Sappho, Minos)

Notes & Reviews:

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'.

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Grand Auditorium, Foundation Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portug (07/10/2012-07/20/2012).



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>Glanville-Hicks, Peggy : Sappho, opera
  • Conductor: Jennifer Condon
  • Ensemble: Orquestra Gulbenkian
  • Notes: Grand Auditorium, Foundation Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (07/10/2012-07/20/2012)
  • Running Time: 3 min. 40 sec.
  • Period Time: Modern
  • Written: 1963