Michael Tippett - The Midsummer Marriage

"So many of the expressions of our age have frowned in their in their contemplation of it … but here was Tippett in 1955 expressing joy, boundless optimism and faith in beauty and humanity. As so often with his pieces, it took a... See more » "So many of the expressions of our age have frowned in their in their contemplation of it … but here was Tippett in 1955 expressing joy, boundless optimism and faith in beauty and humanity. As so often with his pieces, it took a while to sink in, and for players and singers to get their fingers and vocal chords around those springy rhythms and sinewy lines. The moment at which that happened was the moment of this recording and the performances that preceded it. Davis, raptly in love with this score … reveals again and again the opera’s magical sonorities. It is a superb performance. The recording, too, communicates a real sense of live performance. A masterpiece, in short, and one that can be listened to again and again without exhausting its exuberant generosity" Michael Oliver, Gramophone See less »

Label: Lyrita Copyright: 1995 Lyrita Recorded Edition, England Catalogue number: SRCD.2217 UPC/EAN: 5020926221728 Format: CD Analogue / Digital recording: ADD Number of discs: 2 Total playing time: 2 hours 33 mins Price: £ 29.99...