Merchant Of Venice (bluray)
Label: EUROARTS Catalog: 2072704 Format: Wiener Symphoniker; Nielsen; AngasComposed by: André Tchaikowsky Despite his initial success as a concert pianist, André Tchaikowsky’s real passion was composition. “The Merchant of Venice”, after Shakespeare, was to remain his only opera. The score, intricate and dark with moments of brutality, lyricism and flashes of acerbic wit, defies attribution to any one 20th century compositional style, intelligently drawing on Britten, Stravinsky and Debussy. “An elite cast make (this) posthumous (world) premiere…“a restitution to remember” - London Telegraph Price: $37.98 |