Sappho
By Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Lawrence Durrell, Deborah Polaski, Martin Homrich, Scott MacAllister (2), Roman Trekel, Wolfgang Koch (3), John Tomlinson (2), Chorus Of The Gulbenkian Foundation, Gulbenkian Orchestra, and Jennifer Condon
Tracklist
- Act 1
- Overture
- Scene 1
- ‘Hurry, Joy, Hurry!’... ‘Is Your Lady Up?
- ‘Now, At Last You Are Here’
- Aria – Sappho: ‘My Sleep Is Fragile Like An Eggshell Is’
- ‘Minos!’
- ‘So, Phaon’s Back’
- Aria – Phaon: ‘It Must Have Seemed Like That To Them’
- ‘Phaon, How Is It Kreon Did Not Ask You To Stay’
- Scene 2 - 'The Symposium'
- Introduction... ‘Phaon Has Become Much Thinner’... Song With Chorus: He Nymph In The Fountain
- ‘Boy! Bring Us The Laurel!’... ‘What Are The Fortunes Of The World We Live In?’
- ‘Wait, Hear Me First!’... The Epigram Contest
- ‘Sappho! Sappho!’... ‘If Death Be Noble
- ‘Ah, It Is You’
- Duet: ‘Nay, But Always And Forever’
- Act 2
- Scene 3
- Introduction... ‘What Are You Making?’... ‘Here’s Minos Coming!’
- Chorus: ‘Hail To Pittakos!’
- Scene 4
- ‘Sea Begotten Heroes’
- ‘Admit It Now’ ... ‘Now, Where Is This Brother Of Mine’
- ‘Ah, Here You Are At Last’
- Aria – Pittakos: ‘You Think I Do Not Feel’ ... ‘Sappho! Sappho!’
- Act 3
- Scene 5
- ‘Diomedes, Oh Diomedes, What Have You Done?’
- ‘Sleep Now’
- Scene 6
- ‘Priestess Of The Oracle’ ... Invocation
- Kreon’s Confession: ‘Oh Mask!’
- Scene 7
- Introduction
- ‘The Voting Must Be Over’
- Aria – Minos: ‘I Am Very Tired’
- The Verdict: ‘Sappho! Sappho! It Is Exile’
- Monologue: ‘Now Everything Is Silence And Remoteness’