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Adès: Powder Her Face

Jill Gomez (Duchess), Valdine Anderson (Maid), Roger Bryson (Hotel Manager), Niall Morris (Electrician)

Aleida Ensemble, Thomas Ades

This mordant satire on the decline and fall of the Duchess of Argyll would be twice as incisive at half the length. But it is unlikely to be better done than here. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2011, 4 out of 5 stars
  • Release Date: 18th Apr 2011
  • Catalogue No: 0271702
  • Label: Warner Classics
  • Series: British Composers
  • Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

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Adès: Powder Her Face

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  • Valdine Anderson (soprano), Roger Bryson (bass), Niall Morris (vocals), Jill Gomez (soprano), Almeida Ensemble (lead vocals)
  • Thomas Adès
  • Recorded: 1995-12-20
  • Recording Venue: December 1995/Rosslyn Hill Chapel, London London

Powder Her Face (an Opera in two acts) Op.14, ACT I: Overture (Orchestra)

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Nineteen ninety: Oo, aa! ha ha ha ha ha (Maid / Electrician)

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Nineteen ninety: I see. This is what it has come to

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Nineteen ninety: Take it from me (Duchess / Electrician / Maid)

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Nineteen ninety: Interlude (Orchestra)

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Nineteen thirty-four: Of course she's done well

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Nineteen thirty-four: I could never grow bored of dukedoms (Confidante / Lounge Lizard / Duchess)

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Nineteen thirty-four: I hear him coming (Pantomime) (Duchess / Confidante / Lounge Lizard / Duke)

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Nineteen thirty-four: Interlude (Orchestra)

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Nineteen thirty-six: Fancy, fancy being rich (Waitress)

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Nineteen thirty-six: Interlude - Scene 4: Nineteen fifty-three ...mm...ah!...How may I help you? (Duchess / Laundryman / Other Guest)

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Nineteen thirty-six: ...mm..ah!...Room service?

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Nineteen thirty-six: What have you got there?

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Nineteen thirty-six: Come here (Duchess / Waiter)

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Nineteen thirty-six: Interlude (Orchestra)

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Nineteen fifty-three: Is Daddy squiffy?

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Nineteen fifty-three: Are you saying the Duchess is a whore?

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Nineteen fifty-three: Ha ha ha ha...(Paper chase) (Mistress / Duke)

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Nineteen fifty-five: Did she?...Of course she did (Rubberneckers)

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Nineteen fifty-five: Order. Silence

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Nineteen fifty-five: But now I have heard something new (Judge)

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Nineteen fifty-five: Did you hear - What he said? (Rubberneckers)

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Nineteen fifty-five: So that is all (Duchess / Rubberneckers)

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Nineteen fifty-five: Interlude (Orchestra)

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Nineteen seventy: I'd like to make one thing entirely clear

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Nineteen seventy: Ah! None left (Duchess / Society Journalist / Delivery Boy)

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Nineteen seventy: Interlude Fifty-eight, seventy-nine (Duchess)

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Nineteen ninety: Agh - Who are you? (Duchess / Hotel Manager)

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Nineteen ninety: That will do. You may go (Duchess)

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Nineteen ninety: Broken. It's broken (Duchess / Hotel Manager)

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Powder Her Face (an Opera in two acts) Op.14, Act II, Ghost Epilogue: Enough...Or too much! (Maid / Electrician)

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