5023363006422

Brian Elias: Five Songs To Poems By Irina Ratushinskaya

Mary King, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins, Tadaaki Ot

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Format: CD

Cat No: NMCD064

Release Date:  28 January 2002

Label:  NMC Recordings

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5023363006422

Genres:  Classical  Contemporary  

Composer/Series:  Brian Elias

  • Description

    Elias's acclaimed settings of the anguished poetry of exiled Russian author Irina Ratushinskaya are coupled with Laments, which sets traditional folk texts of loss and mourning in the nearly extinct Sicilian-Greek dialect, Grico.

    'Shot through with furious dark passion' The Sunday Times

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. It seemed to you that it was Night
      • 2. And I undid the Old Shawl
      • 3. No, I'm not Afraid
      • 4. Pencil Letter
      • 5. Mermaids, and Stars with Rays
      • 6. And You, Burned Heart, Weep, Weep
      • 7. I had in my Orchard
      • 8. Apples, Twelve Apples

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