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Aaron Jay Kernis - Goblin Market | Signum SIGCD186

Aaron Jay Kernis - Goblin Market

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Label: Signum

Cat No: SIGCD186

Barcode: 0635212018620

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 10th January 2011

International Record Review Outstanding

Contents

Artists

Mary King (narrator)
The New Professionals

Conductor

Rebecca Miller

Works

Kernis, Aaron Jay

Goblin Market
Invisible Mosaic II

Artists

Mary King (narrator)
The New Professionals

Conductor

Rebecca Miller

About

Christina Rossetti’s 19th Century poem Goblin Market has long divided and bemused readers as to its meaning and intent. The story of two sisters and their encounters with the sinister Goblin men and their ‘forbidden’ fruit has been variously interpreted as an allegory of proto-feminism, a critique on the rise of advertising in pre-capitalist England, and an exploration of feminine sexuality in relation to the Victorian world. This multitude of interpretations only adds to the poems mystique and imagery, captured here by the Pulitzer Prize winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis.

Performed by London-based ensemble The New Professionals under Rebecca Miller, the work is a unique concoction of music, mime and masks that delves into the overripe and at times grotesque and shocking imagery of Christina Rossetti’s poem. Goblin Market explores both the Victorian repression coded into its text as well as its parallels with contemporary social issues.

Aaron Jay Kernis is a remarkable composer...in his Goblin Market...you hear an irresistible variety of invention from the 13-piece ensemble...The music seems perfect...its combination of original invention with a broadly earlier style similarly brings the ear back and forth across the generation...this is an inventive treatment of music theatre.” - David Fallows, The Guardian

Goblin Market...was captivating — with a rich, proto-Romantic score.” - Michael White, The Independent

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