Boughton: The Queen of Cornwall (complete music-drama)
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RUTLAND BOUGHTON
Boughton: The Queen of Cornwall (complete music-drama)
Heather Shipp, Joan Rodgers, Jacques Imbrailo / New London Orchestra, Members of The London Chorus, Ronald Corp
[ Dutton Epoch / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Saturday 20 August 2011
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To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the composer Rutland Boughton (1878-1960), during summer 2010 Dutton Epoch brought a notable team of soloists to the fine acoustic of London's St Jude-on-the-Hill to make a complete recording of Boughton's opera The Queen of Cornwall under the sympathetic baton of Ronald Corp. Based on the play of the same name by Thomas Hardy, Boughton's glorious, lyrical score is vividly realised with Joan Rodgers (Iseult of Brittany), Jacques Imbrailo (Sir Tristram), Neal Davies (King Mark) and Heather Shipp (Queen Iseult) in the leading roles. This is a notable discovery, and all lovers of Boughton's music will want to explore this lovely score. Included in this deluxe 2-CD set is a 32-page booklet containing the full libretto text, plus rare pictures from the Boughton family archive showing the original 1924 Glastonbury Festival Production of The Queen of Cornwall.
World premiere recording: recorded at St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, 8th - 10th July 2010
"One of the high points here is the singing of Jacques Imbrailo. His firm voice is well supported and cleanly produced, and his holding a good line is to be praised...Shipp catches Iseult well, her basically soft-grained tone takes on a harder edge when it needs to...[Corp] brings full-blooded playing from the orchestra as is fitting but also draws quieter response in intimate scenes."
(Interntaional Record Review)
"If you can ignore the words, the writing for both voices and orchestra has a surging confidence that's very appealing, and the musical substance grows on one with repeated hearings. In a strong cast, Heather Shipp as the eponymous Queen and Joan Rodgers as the other Iseult stand out...this is admirably full-blooded performance."
(BBC MUsic)
"The Queen of Cornwall dates from 1924, by which time Boughton had moved on to a full and productive assimilation of Wagner's instrumental conception of opera and flexible vocal declamation...For me this opera was quite a revelation and it makes one wonder what other treasures of Boughton await rediscovery."
(Editor's Choice Gramophone Sept 2011)
To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the composer Rutland Boughton (1878-1960), during summer 2010 Dutton Epoch brought a notable team of soloists to the fine acoustic of London's St Jude-on-the-Hill to make a complete recording of Boughton's opera The Queen of Cornwall under the sympathetic baton of Ronald Corp. Based on the play of the same name by Thomas Hardy, Boughton's glorious, lyrical score is vividly realised with Joan Rodgers (Iseult of Brittany), Jacques Imbrailo (Sir Tristram), Neal Davies (King Mark) and Heather Shipp (Queen Iseult) in the leading roles. This is a notable discovery, and all lovers of Boughton's music will want to explore this lovely score. Included in this deluxe 2-CD set is a 32-page booklet containing the full libretto text, plus rare pictures from the Boughton family archive showing the original 1924 Glastonbury Festival Production of The Queen of Cornwall.
