five Novelists
With Peggy Reynolds.
5: James Joyce. The Irish novelist studied singing and loved opera.
Music permeates all his work, from The Dead and A Portrait of the Artist to Ulysses and the great river music of his final masterpiece, Finnegans Wake. Including excerpts from: Verdi Esultate! (Otello) John O'Sullivan (tenor)
Flotow Ach so Fromm (Martha)
Roberto Alagna (tenor),
LPO, conductor Richard Armstrong Meyerbeer 0 Beau Pays de la Touraine (Les Huguenots) Joan Sutherland (soprano), New Philharmonia, conductor Richard Bonynge
Mozart La Ci Darem la Mano (Don Giovanni ) London Concert Artists Berio Chamber Music
Cathy Berberian (soprano), ensemble Plus the voice of Joyce himself.
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