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Berners - Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement, Caprice Peruvien | Naxos 8660510

Berners - Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement, Caprice Peruvien

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8660510

Barcode: 0730099051071

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 8th April 2022

Contents

Artists

Ian Caddy (bass-baritone)
Alexander Oliver (tenor)
Cynthia Buchan (mezzo-soprano)
John Winfield (tenor)
Thomas Lawlor (bass-baritone)
Anthony Smith (baritone
RTE Sinfonietta
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

David Lloyd-Jones
Nicholas Cleobury

Works

Berners, Lord Gerald

Caprice peruvien (orch. Constant Lambert)
Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement (sung in English)

Artists

Ian Caddy (bass-baritone)
Alexander Oliver (tenor)
Cynthia Buchan (mezzo-soprano)
John Winfield (tenor)
Thomas Lawlor (bass-baritone)
Anthony Smith (baritone
RTE Sinfonietta
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

David Lloyd-Jones
Nicholas Cleobury

About

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’.

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