Barry: The Importance Of Being Earnest / Ades, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
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Gerald Barry's riotous opera brings out the savagery beneath the genteel Edwardian manners of Wilde's play: its score includes gunshots, whistling and speaking from the orchestral players, marching boots, and the smashing of 40 dinner plates, while its characters - among them Lady Bracknell sung by bass Alan Ewing - shout through gales, quote Schiller's Ode to Joy (in German) and make polite conversation through megaphones.
Product Description:
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Release Date: November 11, 2014
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Catalog Number: NMCD197
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UPC: 5023363019729
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Label: NMC Recordings
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Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Gerald Barry
Conductor: Thomas Adès
Orchestra/Ensemble: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Performer: Alan Ewing, Barbara Hannigan, Hilary Summers, Joshua Bloom, Katalin Károlyi, Peter Tantsits
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The Importance of Being Ernest
Composer: Gerald Barry
Ensemble: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Performer: Joshua Bloom (Baritone), Alan Ewing (Bass), Barbara Hannigan (Soprano), Katalin Károlyi (Mezzo Soprano), Hilary Summers (Alto), Peter Tantsits (Tenor)
Conductor: Thomas Adès