Glanville-Hicks / Polaski / Orquestra Gulbenkian Sappho CD

Sappho the last grand opera of Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-90) was written in her stone cottage on the island of Mykonos in 1963. Polaski who creates the role of the aging Sappho describes the opera as 'the kind of music that singers want to sing'.

1. Overture 2. Hurry, Joy, Hurry!... Is Your Lady Up? 3. Now, at Last You Are Here 4. My Sleep Is Fragile Like An Eggshell Is 5. Minos! 6. So, Phaon's Back 7. It Must Have Seemed Like That to Them 8. Phaon, How Is It Kreon Did Not Ask You to Stay 9. Introduction... Phaon Has Become Much Thinner... the Nymph in the Fountain 10. Boy! Bring Us the Laurel!... What Are the Fortunes of the World We Live In? 11. Wait, Hear Me First!... the Epigram Contest 12. Sappho! Sappho!... If Death Be Noble 13. Ah, It Is You 14. Nay, But Always and Forever 15. Inroduction... What Are You Making?... Here's Minos Coming! 16. Hail to Pittakos! 17. Sea Begotten Heroes 18. Admit It Now... Now, Where Is His Brother of Mine 19. Ah, Here You Are at Last 20. You Think I Do Not Feel... Sappho! Sappho! 21. Diomedes, Oh Diomedes, What Have You Done? 22. Sleep Now 23. Priestess of the Oracle... Invocation 24. Oh Mask! 25. Introduction 26. The Voting Must Be Over 27. I Am Very Tired 28. Sappho! Sappho! It Is Exile 29. Now Everything Is Silence and Remoteness