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Henze at the Barbican

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The Raft of the Frigate Medusa
An oratorio in two parts (1968) on a true story of 154 sailors left to die by their officers. (Sung in Desmond Clayton 's English version).
La Mort.... Beverty Morgan (soprano) Jean-Charles, a mulatto sailor
David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
Charon..................... lain McDiarmid
Finchley Children's Music Group/Ronald Corp BBC Singers chorusmaster Simon Joly BBC SO/Ulf Schirmer
1: Embarkation for Disaster
8.10 Julian Barnes discusses the celebrated painting by Gericault immortalising the events in Henze's oratorio, adapted from his book A History of the World in Ten Chapters.
8.30 2: The Ninth Night and the Morning

Contributors

Unknown:
Desmond Clayton
Baritone:
David Wilson-Johnson
Unknown:
Simon Joly
Unknown:
Julian Barnes
Source: Radio Times

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