Katalógové číslo:
8.660510
Interpreti:
Alexander Oliver, Anthony Smith, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Cynthia Buchan, David Lloyd-Jones, Ian Caddy, John Winfield, Nicholas Cleobury, RTE Sinfonietta, Thomas Lawlor
Vydavateľ:
NAXOS, NAXOS Opera
1. Caprice péruvien (arr. C. Lambert for orchestra)
Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement (sung in English)
2. Scene 1: The auditors are here to know… (Martinez, Viceroy)
3. Scene 2: Balthasar, I want my new velvet suit (Viceroy, Balthasar)
4. Scene 3: All right. Since it seems I have no choice (Viceroy, Martinez, Balthasar)
5. Scene 4: It is strange I can't come to see how you are (La Pericola, Viceroy, Balthasar)
6. Scene 5: Oh, that angel treats me just the way she likes (Viceroy, Balthasar)
7. Scene 6: Interlude - Your Highness, the Licenciate Thomas d'Esquivel is here (Balthasar, Viceroy)
8. Scene 7: Good morning, Your Highness (Minister, Viceroy, Balthasar)
9. Scene 8: You first, my dear Señora (Bishop, La Pericola, Minister, Viceroy)
Lord Berners was an eccentric novelist, painter and aesthete, but it is as a composer that he is best remembered. Berners saw Prosper Mérimée’s play Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement in 1917 and ‘was at once fascinated by the grace, the spirit and the character of this little work’. Abandoning operatic tradition, this light and transparently orchestrated version of the narrative unfolds concisely and continuously. The amusing tale is one of domestic bickering and a minor miracle brought about by an act of charity, ‘held together in the style of a symphonic poem’.