Michael Hurd: The Aspern Papers & The Night of the Wedding

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Two Chamber Operas

Owen Gilhooly (Harry Jordan), Pippa Goss (Mrs Prest), Clare McCaldin (Miss Tina/Servant), Louise Winter (Juliana Bordereau), Nicholas Morton (Count Gervaise de Polisson), Garry Humphreys (Antoine, his manservant), Rhian Lois (La Marquise de Belle Poitrine), Matthew Buswell (Le Marquis), Simon Lepper...

The juicy stuff lies in the orchestral writing (beautifully played), often suffused with a wistful melancholy distantly suggesting the moodier film scores of Bernard Herrmann…George Vass's team... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2015 More…

Release Date: 8th Jun 2015
Catalogue No: SRCD2350
Label: Lyrita
Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

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Hurd: The Aspern Papers

Work length1:34:15

Louise Winter, Owen Gilhooly, Clare McCaldin, Pippa Goss
Ulster Orchestra
George Vass

Act 1 Scene 1

Track length16:08

Act 1 Scene 2

Track length13:30

Act 2 Scene 1

Track length17:01

Act 2 Scene 2

Track length12:21

Act 2 Scene 3

Track length10:32

Act 3 Scene 1

Track length13:56

Act 3 Scene 2

Track length10:47

Hurd: The Night Of The Wedding

Work length16:40

Rhian Lois, Garry Humphreys, Matthew Buswell, Nicholas Morton
Ulster Orchestra
Ronald Corp

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Michael Hurd was born in Gloucester on 19 December 1928. He studied at Pembroke College, Oxford (1950-53) with Sir Thomas Armstrong and Dr Bernard Rose and became President of the University Music Society. In addition, he took composition lessons from Lennox Berkeley. Following a six-year term (1953-59) as Professor of Music Theory at the Royal Marines School of Music in Deal, he settled in West Liss, Hampshire, dedicating the rest of his life to a variety of musical pursuits - composing, writing, conducting, lecturing and broadcasting. He travelled widely and was a frequent visitor to Australia where he helped to found the Port Fairy Music Festival which staged the first performances of his last two operas. He died in Petersfield, Hampshire on 8 August 2006, at the age of 78.

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Ulster Orchestra, George Vass, Ronald Corp

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September 2015

The juicy stuff lies in the orchestral writing (beautifully played), often suffused with a wistful melancholy distantly suggesting the moodier film scores of Bernard Herrmann…George Vass's team do all their best for this modest and thoughtful opera.

Offer,Michael Hurd: The Aspern Papers & The Night of the Wedding

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