Concert performances of two musical dramas commissioned by the Princesse de Polignac Socrate
Symphonic drama
Libretto and music by Erik Satie after victor COUSINS'S translations of PLATO (sung in French)
KOENIG ENSEMBLE leader PAUL BARRITT conducted by JAN LATHAM-KOENIG
9.10* Interval Reading
9.15* Les malheurs d'Orphee Chamber opera in three acts Words by ARMAND LUNEL
Music by Darius Milhaud (sung in French)
Orpheus is a French pharmacist and vet. Eurydice a gypsy girl who gives up the nomadic life for him but dies of an illness even Orpheus cannot cure.
Other parts sung by JANIS KELLY (soprano)
MARILYN DE BLlECK (meZZO-SOp) SUSAN TYRRELL (contralto) NEIL JENKINS (tenor)
JOHN HANCORN (baritone) IAN COMBOY (bass)
KOENIG ENSEMBLE leader PAUL BARRITT conducted by JAN LATHAM -KOENIG (Given in November 1984 at St John 's. Smith Square, London)