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| Management number | 205721089 | Release Date | 2025/10/22 | List Price | $85.20 | Model Number | 205721089 | ||
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Title: Brian: The Cenci
Artist: Helen Field
Label: Toccata
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5060113440945
Genre: Classical, Opera/Operetta
Release Date: 2024-05-17
Number of Discs: 2
The Cenci (1951-52) is Havergal Brian's operatic realisation of Shelley's gruesome tale of incest and parricide in Renaissance Italy. The score calls it simply an 'Opera in Eight Scenes', but it rarely goes in for grand tunes; instead, it's dark colours reflect Shelley's fascination with the struggle between good and evil. Stylistically, it is an unusual but highly effective hybrid: a music-drama focused on the intense delivery of Shelley's text, with the declamatory style of the vocal lines echoing such recent oratorios as Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher, and the freewheeling orchestral writing producing something of a vocal symphony.
Tracks:
1.1 Cenci~Overture (Preludio Tragico)
1.2 Cenci~Scene 1: An apartment in the Cenci palace, Rome
1.3 Cenci~Scene 2: A garden of the Cenci palace, Rome
1.4 Cenci~Scene 3: A magnificent hall in the Cenci palace, Rome: A banque
1.5 Cenci~Scene 4: An apartment in the Castle of Petrella (among the Apulian Apennines)
2.1 Cenci~Scene 5: Before the Castle of Petrella
2.2 Cenci~Scene 6: An apartment in Orsino's palace, Rome
2.3 Cenci~Scene 7: The Hall of Justice, Rome
2.4 Cenci~Scene 8: A hall of the prison
Artist: Helen Field
Label: Toccata
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5060113440945
Genre: Classical, Opera/Operetta
Release Date: 2024-05-17
Number of Discs: 2
The Cenci (1951-52) is Havergal Brian's operatic realisation of Shelley's gruesome tale of incest and parricide in Renaissance Italy. The score calls it simply an 'Opera in Eight Scenes', but it rarely goes in for grand tunes; instead, it's dark colours reflect Shelley's fascination with the struggle between good and evil. Stylistically, it is an unusual but highly effective hybrid: a music-drama focused on the intense delivery of Shelley's text, with the declamatory style of the vocal lines echoing such recent oratorios as Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher, and the freewheeling orchestral writing producing something of a vocal symphony.
Tracks:
1.1 Cenci~Overture (Preludio Tragico)
1.2 Cenci~Scene 1: An apartment in the Cenci palace, Rome
1.3 Cenci~Scene 2: A garden of the Cenci palace, Rome
1.4 Cenci~Scene 3: A magnificent hall in the Cenci palace, Rome: A banque
1.5 Cenci~Scene 4: An apartment in the Castle of Petrella (among the Apulian Apennines)
2.1 Cenci~Scene 5: Before the Castle of Petrella
2.2 Cenci~Scene 6: An apartment in Orsino's palace, Rome
2.3 Cenci~Scene 7: The Hall of Justice, Rome
2.4 Cenci~Scene 8: A hall of the prison
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