Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Earnest Format:MP3 Phillip Sheppard Violoncelle

Phillip Sheppard Violoncelle

This is a stunning release from a young composer with a unique and compelling soundworld

But this is not a polystylism based on elements that do not belong

but without his wackiness and weirdness

By the time it leaves the body

Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Earnest Format:MP3 Phillip Sheppard VioloncelleGerald Barry's riotous opera brings out the savagery beneath the genteel Edwardian manners of Wilde's play: its score includes gunshots, whistling and speaking from the orchestral players, marching boots, and the smashing of 40 dinner plates, while its characters among them Lady Bracknell sung by bass Alan Ewing shout through gales, quote Schiller's Ode to Joy (in German) and make polite conversation through megaphones. Barbara Hannigan soprano Cecily