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Ed Hughes: When the Flame Dies (Live)

Label Catalogue Number:
MSV77203

Running Time: 00:58:31

Release Date: November 2013
Originally recorded in 2021

Composer
Edward Dudley Hughes

Solo Soloist
Edward Grint

Solo Soloist
Lucy Williams

Conductor Conductor
Carlos del Cueto

Chamber Chamber
New Music Players

Venue Venue
Canterbury Festival 2012, Augustine Hall, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Kent, England, United Kingdom

Genre:
Classical
Opera

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HUGHES, E.D.: When the Flame Dies

EDWARD DUDLEY HUGHES

When the Flame Dies

1.

Can't write (Poet)

02:09

2.

My love is dead (Poet)

02:04

3.

If only (Princess, Poet)

04:16

4.

Before you pull the trigger (Princess, Poet)

03:10

5.

Eternal Orpheus (Poet)

03:46

6.

Interlude 1

01:41

7.

I am Orpheus (Orpheus, Poet)

03:44

8.

I am forever the singer (Orpheus, Eurydice, Princess)

04:34

9.

You wanted her dead! (Poet, Orpheus)

03:36

10.

Interlude 2 … I am the killer in the poet's mask (Poet, Eurydice, Princess)

03:43

11.

Our perfect hours (Princess)

03:49

12.

Aren't you going to answer it? (Princess, Poet)

05:50

13.

There are no memories (Princess, Poet)

02:19

14.

The rising of the sap (Raymond, Princess, Poet)

06:12

15.

Killer in the poet's mask (Eurydice, Orpheus, Princess, Raymond, Poet)

01:48

16.

The candle is burnt out (Princess, Raymond, Poet)

05:50

Solo: Edward Grint Soloist

Solo: Lucy Williams Soloist

Conductor: Carlos del Cueto Conductor

Chamber: New Music Players Chamber

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Reviews

“Morris’s libretto is extensive and often intricate in content, thereby placing a premium on the composer’s ability to convey dramatic meaning at the same time as sustaining a convincing theatrical continuity. This Hughes achieves admirably, whether in terms of maintaining a satisfactory balance between voices and instruments or of enriching the vocal lines with writing which sustains an intrinsic musical interest. The cast here is a persuasive one – dominated by Edward Grint’s emotive and increasingly self-regarding Poet, and the sensuous yet calculating appeal of Lucy Williams’s Princess. Hopefully Hughes’s piece will soon secure a full staging: in the meantime, this release enables one to get to grips with one of the more arresting and distinctive chamber operas to have emerged in the UK over recent years.” Richard Whitehouse - International Record Review

“The device with video and light projections is the best possible approach to this beautiful piece. Brilliant, energetic music, whose most immediately noticeable quality is its clarity the language is open and attractive, very harmonically inventive. Five young singers, all excellent an instrumental ensemble very precise and directed with great attention and we have here all the ingredients for a production of high standing.” Pierre Rigaudière - L’avant-scène Opéra

“An intriguing Cocteau-esque opera that resists reaching for easy harmonic comforts there is no gainsaying the vocal skills of the persuasive soloists, notably the mezzo-soprano Lucy Williams, who characterises her role with conviction.” Barry Forshaw - Classical CD Choice-North London Press

“It is the exciting orchestral treatment which wins through in this short chamber opera, with the shimmering timbres of the twelve instrumentalists of New Music Players, often bolstered by electronics. Edward Grint, recently seen at the Musée d’Orsay in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience, proves very comfortable in the main role, while Lucy Williams [as Princess Death] leads the game with authority. Andrew Radley, as Raymond Radiquet, gives a good performance and is rewarded with a long soliloquy near the end of the work.” Laurent Bury - Forum Opera

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