The Tigers (complete opera recorded 1983)
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HAVERGAL BRIAN
The Tigers (complete opera recorded 1983)
Teresa Cahill, Marilyn Hill-Smith, Alan Opie & Kenneth Woollam / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Lionel Friend
[ Testament / 3 CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 11 March 2015
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Testament is proud to present the first CD release of Havergal Brian's opera The Tigers (composed 1917-19, orchestrated 1928-29), from its BBC Radio 3 studio premiere performance recorded in May 1983. Lionel Friend conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers, together with a huge cast of some of the finest British soloists of the day. The original performance was enabled by the Havergal Brian Society's rediscovery of the full score, lost since WW2, and this release is issued with the Society's generous support.
"The BBC performance, with multiple roles taken by a cast which includes some of the finest British opera singers of the time, is immensely competent. There are no star performances as such, more a succession of cameos, but Friend gave the whole teeming performance real energy and drive." (The Guardian)
"this 1983 BBC studio recording, issued on CD for the first time, reveals a stunningly inventive, eclectic score, performed here with gusto by a A-team cast of 1980s ENO regulars under Lionel Friend. Irresistible." (The Times)
