The Nightingale And The Rose

This operatic fable, based on a fairy story by Oscar Wilde, highlights the differences between the diametrically opposed perceptions of Love represented by the emotionally committed world of nature and the artificial monetary valuations of society. The text draws entirely from Wilde's original, without any additions from other sources, and lasts around three-quarters of an hour. It features other soloists from Welsh National Opera, together with an orchestra drawn from live sampled performances which have been carefully balanced and adjusted in collaboration with the composer to obtain as close a result to the sound of an actual orchestra as possible, with results that Brian Wilson writing for MusicWeb International described as completely convincing. The work was originally written in 1976 but, apart from excerpts, has not been performedcomplete before now; the recording was originally scheduled for the composer's seventieth birthday in 2020, but has been delayed by the recent pandemic.

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Format: CD
Artist: Paul Corfield Godfrey
Release Date: 13 January 2023
Genre: Classical Music
Label: Prima Facie
Distributor: MGM Music