Greek / Turnage ; after the play by Steven Berkoff.

Author/creator Turnage, Mark-Anthony composer.
Format Audio (CD)
PublicationLondon : Argo, [1994]
Copyright Date℗1994
Description1 audio disc (78 min., 6 sec.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Subjects

Other author/creatorBerkoff, Steven, librettist.
Other author/creatorHayes, Quentin, performer.
Other author/creatorSuart, Richard, performer.
Other author/creatorKimm, Fiona, performer.
Other author/creatorCharnock, Helen, performer.
Other author/creatorBernas, Richard, conductor.
Other author/creatorBerkoff, Steven. Greek.
Contents Act one. Prologue (0:33) -- Pub & wine bar music (4:07) -- Breakfast quartet (1:26) -- Fortune-teller (4:06) -- Eddy's farewell (3:41) -- Mum & Dad (0:33) -- The plague (3:43) -- Police riot (6:19) -- Café (2:46) -- Fight (1:51) -- Love duet (4:17) -- Aria: the story of Kid (2:20) -- Love duet: reprise (1:32) -- Mum & Dad (2:07) -- Act two. Prologue (2:10) -- Café (2:49) -- Love aria (4:02) -- Arrival of Mum & Dad (1:05) -- Quartet (0:54) -- Plague link (1:49) -- Journey to the Sphinx (0:51) -- Sphinx (7:12) -- Killing of Sphinx, Eddy's triumphant journey home (0:50) -- Eddy's return (2:41) -- Dad's story of Kid (3:36) -- Eddy's soliloquy of regret (2:34) -- Eddy's 'blinding' (3:56) -- Eddy's funeral march (2:43) -- Conclusion (1:34).
General noteOpera in 2 acts.
General noteA translation of the Oedipus myth into the contemporary East End of London.
General noteSung in English.
General noteLibretto by the playwright.
General noteEdition recorded: Schott.
General noteProgram notes and synopsis in English with French, German, and Italian translations and libretto (38 pages : portraits)--inserted in container.
Performer Helen Charnock, soprano ; Fiona Kimm, mezzo-soprano ; Quentin Hayes, bass ; Richard Suart, baritone ; Helen Crayford, Paul Clarvis, Peter Jonas, Dennis Marks, supporting vocal soloists ; additional assisting vocalists and instrumentalists ; Richard Bernas, conductor.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded November 18-23, 1992, Henry Wood Hall, London.
UPC 028944036824
Publisher number440 368-2 Argo

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