Birtwistle - Down By the Greenwood Side (1968) (with score) скачать в хорошем качестве

Birtwistle - Down By the Greenwood Side (1968) (with score)

Harrison Birtwistle's dramatic pastoral sets a text by Michael Nyman. The text comes from two sources: a popular ballad called "The Cruel Mother", and passages from various mummers plays, the folk plays of the English countryside. The soprano, Mrs. Green, sings the ballad while the actors and mime perform the play. The two ingredients never meet; both are completely self-contained, involved only in themselves. But near the end, in the final tableau, there is a slight acknowledgement of each other's worlds when the presenter of the mummers' play, Father Christmas, completes the story Mrs. Green has been telling, and Mrs. Green momentarily enters the mummers’ acting area. Performers: Mrs Green - Cheryl Cobb Father Chistmas - Kim Scown St George - James Maddalena Bold Slasher - Eric Benson Dr Blood - Keith Kibler Jack Finney - Albert Finney Boston Musica Viva, cond. Richard Pittman Recordings of this piece are extremely rare. If anyone knows of one with better sound, please let me know.