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:


  • Catalog Number: NMCD197


  • UPC: 5023363019729


  • Label: NMC Recordings


  • 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



Works:


  1. 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