Piano Excerpts

Soli, Chor und Orchester

A sequel to Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini (1858 1924), Buoso's Ghost begins with the final bars of Gianni Schicchi. Based on the premise that Buoso Donati did not die of natural causes in Gianni...

Music of iron and bronze, appropriate to its Trojan War setting-of fanfares and percussion tattoos, but with plangent windows of orchestral and vocal beauty-Tippett's second opera is unlike his first...

A house, too, can be a battlefield, and a garden a wilderness. The house here belongs to Faber and Thea: middle-class, middle-aged, probably more than middle-income and in a mid-matrimonial rut of mut...

Splintered and rich in reference as Tippett's operas are in their music and in their text, they carry at their heart a glowing confidence in the power ofhuman beings to find a centre and, from that ce...

The wildest and most open of his operas, New Year is an extraordinarily youthful conception for a composer in his mid-eighties, a work that spins his lyrical ecstasy and rhythmic vitality into a new w...

Greek is a translation of the Oedipus myth into the contemporary East End of London. Racism, violence and mass unemployment appear as metaphors for the plague that afflicts London, and form the backgr...

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