Delius - A Village Romeo And Juliet: Sir Charles Mackerras - 2xcd Boxset + Booklet (1990)
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DELIUS A Village Romeo and Juliet Arnold-Schonberg Chor ORF Symphonieorchester Conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras Andrea Mellis (vocals), Arthur Davies (vocals), Barry Mora (vocals), David McShane (vocals), Elizabeth Dobie (vocals), Helen Field (vocals), John Antoniou (vocals), Kimberly Barber (vocals), Maria Venuti (vocals), Pamela Mildenhall (vocals) Total timing 111.21 1990 The Decca Record Company Limited, London 2xCD boxset including booklet (DDD) There are works that are so overwhelmingly great while you're listening to them that it is impossible to believe that they aren't played more often. Delius' opera A Village Romeo and Juliet is that kind of work: it has all the audience appeal of La Boheme and all the profundity of Tristan und Isolde. But after it's over, the music doesn't stick in the mind and the story becomes, even for an opera, more than a little silly: who ever heard of a love death that takes place on a hay barge? But another listen sounds like one of the greatest operas ever composed.But it's been hard to convince anybody else of that, especially not while they're listening to it. That is until now: this recording of A Village Romeo and Juliet conducted by Charles Mackerras has been able to convince other people that the opera really is great, at least while they're listening to it. Mackerras has created a nearly ideal opera recording, one to rival both Beecham's Boheme and Furtwangler's Tristan, a recording that realized both...
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