Robert Saxton: Caritas, Violin Concerto

Robert Saxton: Caritas, Violin ConcertoThis addition to NMC's Ancora series reissues Robert Saxton's opera Caritas based on Arnold Wesker's drama about a walled up anchoress of the 13th century alongside his Violin Concerto, Music to Celebrate the Resurrection, In the Beginning and the set of choral motets I Will Awake the Dawn. AUDIO Cast of Caritas Eirian Davies Christine Jonathan Best Bishop Henry of Norwich Christopher Ventris Robert Lonle, Christine's fiance Linda Hibberd Agnes,

‘John Tomlinson is sonorous and imposing in the dual roles of the Green Knight and Bertilak

as well as Chris Dench's complex Topologies

Les Illuminations was recorded 18 May 1941 at ISCM Festival

Released by arrangement with BBC Music

The Mask of Orpheus was commissioned by English National Opera with the help of funds provided by the Arts Council of Great Britain and the RVW Trust

‘a great portrait CD compilation of works from the first decade of our musically wonderful new century

The centrepiece of this disc sets Dylan Thomas's defiant In my craft or sullen art for tenor and string quartet

mandolin and accordion

semi-abstract musical argument as in discerning the sublets nuances of Apollinaire's poetry in the Apollinaire Choruses

'Howarth and his fine cast (John Tomlinson

The Way to the Sea

Deborah Kayser mezzo-soprano