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Crosse 'Purgatory' Opera in One Act
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Catalogue Number
SRCD313
| Review | "The libretto of Purgatory - a one-acter - is by the composer after the 1938 play by W. B. Yeats. It is sung, spoken and hoarsely whispered with great accomplishment and unerring concentration by Bodenham and Hargreaves...this succinct opera stands somewhere between Vaughan Williams' Riders to the Sea and Berg's Lulu or Wozzeck. This edgy, ruthless, creepy and dissonant little two-hander is presented to best advantage. One cannot imagine needing another recording after this despite its three decades' vintage." Rob Barnett, musicweb-international.com *** PENGUIN GUIDE 2010 |
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Purgatory, Introduction - "Half-door, hall door
Purgatory, So you have come this path before?
Purgatory, But there are some Who do not care…
Purgatory, My mother that was your grand-dam owned it
Purgatory, My God, but you had luck!
Purgatory, I stuck him with a knife
Purgatory, Deaf, both deaf!
Purgatory, My father and my son on the same jack-knife!
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