Special offer. Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
Jessye Norman (Jocaste), Thomas Moser (Oedipus), Alexandru Ionita (Shepherd), Michel Piccoli (narrator)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Colin Davis
Awards:
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Building a Library, May 2018, Also Recommended
The pace is unerringly right, the rhythms never monotonously mechanical, the score's phrasing and accents scrupulously realized...Jocastas notoriously tend to unsteadiness, but Jessye Norman...
Special offer. Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
Jessye Norman (Jocaste), Thomas Moser (Oedipus), Alexandru Ionita (Shepherd), Michel Piccoli (narrator)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Colin Davis
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Awards:
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Building a Library, May 2018, Also Recommended
The pace is unerringly right, the rhythms never monotonously mechanical, the score's phrasing and accents scrupulously realized...Jocastas notoriously tend to unsteadiness, but Jessye Norman...
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- Michel Piccoli (narrator), Thomas Moser (tenor), Roland Bracht (bass), Siegmund Nimsgern (bass), Jessye Norman (soprano), Alexandru Ionita (vocals)
- Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
- Sir Colin Davis
- Recorded: 27-28 January / 26 June 1983
- Recording Venue: Herkulessaal, Munich, Germany
Prologue - Act I
Track length23:42
This track is only available as an album download.
Act II
Track length25:33
This track is only available as an album download.
Awards and reviews
June 1984
The pace is unerringly right, the rhythms never monotonously mechanical, the score's phrasing and accents scrupulously realized...Jocastas notoriously tend to unsteadiness, but Jessye Norman is never tempted to push urgency of attack to the point where the actual sound becomes rough or distorted...The performance achieves a good balance between neo-classical stylization and vivid dramatic force
