Stewart Robertson, Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra - Richard Rodney Bennett: The Mines of Sulphur (2005)
Stewart Robertson, Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra - Richard Rodney Bennett: The Mines of Sulphur (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 425 Mb | Total time: 56:42+50:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHSA 5036(2) | Recorded: 2004
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 425 Mb | Total time: 56:42+50:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHSA 5036(2) | Recorded: 2004
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett’s Gothic opera The Mines of Sulphur is reminiscent of suspense thrillers from Edgar Allan Poe to Alfred Hitchcock. Love, longing, and dark as well as light comedy abound in this macabre tale of greed and retribution set in a haunted manor house in the West of England. The title of the tale, taken from Shakespeare’s Othello, refers to the theme of gradual corruption.
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett is one of Britain’s most prolific composers, whose best-known works include the film scores for Four Weddings and a Funeral and Murder on the Orient Express. The gypsy Rosalind has tried to escape from the abusive landowner, Braxton, but is driven back to the isolated house by the winter weather. Her companions – Boconnion, an army deserter, and the tramp Tovey – stealthily enter the house intent on stealing Braxton’s jewels and other valuable possessions. Boconnion murders Braxton and while the three try on their newly acquired finery, there is the sound of a distant horn followed by a knock on the door. Sherrin, the leader of a troupe of travelling actors, enters seeking shelter for the group. Boconnion agrees to this request in exchange for the performance of a play. Sherrin chooses The Mines of Sulphur, a comedy about a wealthy antiquarian who selects a young wife as ‘the loveliest thing in [his] collection’. In the play, the young Haidee and the valet, Hugo, have an illicit affair, and upon discovery are about to kill the older husband. At this point the similarities between the play and reality are too much for Rosalind and Tovey and they stop the performance. One of the actors indicates that he knows Boconnion’s real identity and what has happened in the house. Bocconion draws a bayonet and moves threateningly towards the actors, intending to imprison them in the house and burn it down, in order to destroy all evidence of his crime. However, the actors escape leaving behind Jenny. Boconnion taunts Rosalind by kissing Jenny, who then explains that she has the plague. Rosalind, Boconnion and Tovey are left with the realisation that in fact they are the ones for whom there is no escape, and they pray in vain for mercy.
"Though just 28 when he composed this work, Sir Richard showed a sure grasp of dramatic pacing and an intuitive feeling for character. He confidently adapted the 12-tone idiom to his distinctive musical and dramatic aims, reining in a wayward Bergian language with ravishing moments of tonal mooring. The vocal writing shifts naturally between sputtered outbursts and ruminative lyricism.
The excellent cast is headed by Brandon Jovanovich (Boconnion), Kristopher Irmiter (Braxton), Beth Clayton (Rosalind) and James Maddalena (Tovey). Mr. Robertson conducts a vividly colored and inexorable performance."- Anthony Tommasini, NEW YORK TIMES
Performer:
Braxton, a landowner - Kristopher Irmiter
Rosalind, a gypsy - Beth Clayton
Boconnion, a deserter - Brandon Jovanovich
Tovey, a tramp - James Maddalena
Sherrin, a manager (in the play: the Count) - Kristopher Irmiter
Leda, an actress (in the play: Mrs Traxel) - Dorothy Byrne
Fenney, an actor (in the play: Hugo) - Brian Anderson
Tooley, an actor (in the play: a Flunkey) - Michael Todd Simpson
Jenny, an actress (in the play: Haidee) - Caroline Worra
Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra
Conductor - Stewart Robertson
Tracklist:
Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012)
The Mines of Sulphur
CD1:
01. Act 1. No. 1. Introduction
02. No. 2. Slut! You slut!
03. No. 3. Easy and quietly
04. No. 4. The key!
05. You see! What did I tell you?
06. No. 5. Old goat!
07. No. 6. The cup it is white and the ale it is brown…
08. No. 7. Am I beautiful?
09. A horn!
10. No. 8. Good evening, sir
11. No. 9. I once played Romeo, in Chester
12. No. 10. It looks very well on you
13. Act 2. No. 11. Overture
14. No. 12. Good morning, your Excellency!
15. No. 13. Recitative. Item: A fountain in the Palladian style
16. No. 14. Duet. Good morning, your Excellency
17. This morning I was passing the square - / No. 15. O when will I a lover know
18. No. 16. Well?
19. No. 17. Haidee!
20. No. 18. Your eyes are shining, Rosalind
21. No. 19. (Enter Trim and Tooley to prepare the bed…)
CD2:
01. No. 20. Nocturne 1
02. No. 21. Good morning, my doves
03. No. 22. Hugo!
04. No. 23. Nocturne 2
05. No. 24. I said to the cook: who does he think he is?
06. No. 25. Nocturne 3 - In the moonlight they are beautiful
07. No. 26. Get up! and quickly, do you hear me
08. No. 27. Stop! Make them stop!
09. No. 28. We must get away from here
10. No. 29. I am very sorry, Colonel Boconnion
11. Well now, Colonel
12. You would do better to save your new coat
13. Act 3. No. 30. Back! Back against the wall where I can watch you
14. No. 31. This house is made of wood / No. 32. What will you gain by killing us
15. All correct, Colonel - / No. 33. I want to leave this house / No. 34. We must wait till morn
16. Ah! The poor little mute - / No. 35. (Trim obeys. He dances jerkily and awkwardly.) - / No.
17. I lived as a boy in a village by the sea
18. Act 3. Tovey! Bring down the girl - / No. 37. I want to leave this house
19. Tovey! Into the cellar with them - / No. 38. All correct, Colonel
20. What was your question, in the play?
21. No. 39. Once, once long ago some actors came riding
22. No. 40. The horn! Their horn!
23. Then look! Soldier, look!
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Stewart Robertson, Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra - Richard Rodney Bennett: The Mines of Sulphur (2005)
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