Oliver Knussen
Higglety Pigglety Pop ! - Libretto
Fantasy Opera in 1 Act (9 Scenes)
Oliver Knussen
Higglety Pigglety Pop ! - Libretto
Fantasy Opera in 1 Act (9 Scenes)
- Instrumentation Voice
- Composer Oliver Knussen
- Edition Lyrics only
- Publisher Faber Music
- Order no. 0571519334
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Description:
The piece is full of clever and beautiful things; the early scenes proceed almost in convulsions of orchestral brilliance within a marvellously clear and animated world whose chief references, sometimes explicit, are to Ravel and Stravinsky. The scene with the pig is deliciously rich in bass gruntings; that with the milkman cat mixes Marx brohters dialogue with a sophisticated recreation of low musical gags.Paul Griffiths, The Times, 6 August 1985