Sappho - Sapphic Poem
BANTOCK Sir Granville (1868-1946)
Susan Bickley (Mezzosopran) - Vernon Handley (Dir)
Label : Hyperion Records
Artikelnummer: CDA66899
1 CD Spielzeit : 075:19
CHF 19.50
Julian Lloyd Webber (Cello) - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra // This first recording (now included in CDS44281/6) of Bantock's Sappho, written in 1906, reveals it to be a gorgeous song cycle of almost an hour's duration. The 'fragments' are all that remain of the work of the Greek poetess Sappho who lived c700BC, and Bantock has given her erotic and beautiful poetry a luscious late-romantic score for a vast orchestra.