Helen Field - Brian: The Cenci - Music & Performance - CD
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| Management number | 254785536 | Release Date | 2026/11/07 | List Price | US$11.98 | Model Number | 254785536 | ||
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The Cenci (1951-52) is Havergal Brian's operatic realisation of Shelley's gruesome tale of incest and parricide in Renaissance Italy. The score calls it simply an 'Opera in Eight Scenes', but it rarely goes in for grand tunes; instead, it's dark colours reflect Shelley's fascination with the struggle between good and evil. Stylistically, it is an unusual but highly effective hybrid: a music-drama focused on the intense delivery of Shelley's text, with the declamatory style of the vocal lines echoing such recent oratorios as Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher, and the freewheeling orchestral writing producing something of a vocal symphony.
- Helen Field - Brian: The Cenci - Music & Performance - CD
- Music
- Toccata
- Classical
| Performer | Helen Field |
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| Music genre | Classical |
| Music subgenre | Opera |
| Media format | CD |
| Is collectible | Y |
| Has parental advisory label | N |
| Track listing | Coming Soon! |
| Record label | Toccata |
| Composer | Havergal Brian |
| Track name | The Cenci~Overture (Preludio Tragico), The Cenci~Scene 1: An apartment in the Cenci palace, Rome, The Cenci~Scene 2: A garden of the Cenci palace, The Cenci~Scene 3: A magnificent hall in the Cenci palace, Rome: A banque, The Cenci~Scene 4: An apartment in the Castle of Petrella (among the Apulian Apennines), The Cenci~Scene 5: Before the Castle of Petrella, The Cenci~Scene 6: An apartment in Orsino's palace, The Cenci~Scene 7: The Hall of Justice, The Cenci~Scene 8: A hall of the prison |
| Digital audio file format | CD |
| Music media format | CD |
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