Music inspired by legends of bravery, vanity, love and retribution, as told in the Metamorphoses.
Dittersdorf Symphony:
The Rescue of Andromeda by Perseus
MAINZ CO/GUNTER KEHR
Roussel Pan (Joueurs de flute) SUSAN MILAN (flute)
CLIFFORD BENSON (piano)
Szymanowski The Fountain of Arethusa (Myths, Op 30) KAJA DANCZOWSKA (violin) KRYSTIAN ZIMERMAN (piano)
Saint-Saens Symphonic poem: Phaeton, Op 39
PHILHARMONIA/CHARLES DUTOIT
Interspersed with excerpts from Britten's Six Metamorphoses after Ovid
JANET CRAXTON (oboe) Records