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Maxwell Davies - The Martyrdom of St Magnus | Unicorn Kanchana DKPCD9100

Maxwell Davies - The Martyrdom of St Magnus

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Label: Unicorn Kanchana

Cat No: DKPCD9100

Barcode: 0053068910026

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 15th July 2016

Contents

Artists

Music Theatre Wales
Scottish Opera Ensemble

Conductor

Michael Rafferty

Works

Davies, Peter Maxwell

The Martyrdom of St Magnus

Artists

Music Theatre Wales
Scottish Opera Ensemble

Conductor

Michael Rafferty

About

Magnus was a 12th-century earl of the Orkney Islands, a Viking unusual for his pacifism, martyred in a dynastic struggle. Peter Maxwell Davies's opera is a presentation of his story, based on George Mackay Brown's novel Magnus. The Unicorn performance presented here is the only available recording.

"This hauntingly beautiful chamber opera is one of the finest of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's Orkney-inspired pieces (it opened the first St Magnus Festival there in 1977) and of all his stage works it seems especially well suited to recording. Certainly in the present performance, based on a staging that has toured extensively over the last two years, it grips from the very first moment, an unaccompanied vocal line emerging from silence and apparent darkness, and doesn't let go for the whole of the opera's 72-minute span... The performance is a fine one, splendidly paced and of powerful impetus; the recording is extremely clear, yet spacious and very atmospheric." - Michael Oliver, Gramophone

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