Release Date: 04 September 2004
Label: NMC Recordings
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 5023363010221
Genres: Classical Contemporary
Composer/Series: Robert Saxton
Description
This addition to NMC's Ancora series reissues Robert Saxton's opera Caritas - based on Arnold Wesker's drama about a walled-up anchoress of the 13th century - alongside his Violin Concerto, Music to Celebrate the Resurrection, In the Beginning and the set of choral motets I Will Awake the Dawn.
Eirian Davies Christine
Jonathan Best Bishop Henry of Norwich
Christopher Ventris Robert Lonle, Christine's fiance
Linda Hibberd Agnes, Christine's mother
Roger Bryson William, Christine's father
David Gwynne Richard Lonle, Robert's father
Paul Wilson Mathew, Christine's parish priest
Galloway Bell Bailiff
Bruce Budd Villager
Brian Cookson Tax collector
Linda Ormiston Matilde, a village gossip
Tracklisting
Zoe Martlew, Ben Goldscheider, Lucy Schaufer, Huw Watkins, Mark Simpson, Alessandro Fisher, Lana Bo
Liza Lim, JACK Quartet, Jay Campbell, Rohan Dasika
Hannah Kendall, Ensemble Modern, Anne Denholm-Blair, Halle Orchestra, Jonathan Bloxham, Jonathan Mo
Philip Mead, Simon Emmerson, Zubin Kanga, Heather Roche, Carla Rees
Martin Iddon, Quiet Music Ensemble, Jack Adler-McKean
Clare O'Connell
Martyn Brabbins, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers
Martyn Brabbins, Daniel Pioro, Anna Dennis, Andrew Gourlay, Elena Schwarz
Roderick Williams, BBC Symphony Orchestra
Brunel Ensemble
Kreutzer Quartet; Peter Sheppard Skaerved
