Chamber Opera in one act Libretto and music by Gustav Hoist. More than half a century before Britten based Curlew River on a traditional subject from an Eastern ^culture, Hoist wrote Savitri, drawing on an episode from the ancient Hindu sacred book, the Mahabharata.
WOMEN'S VOICES OF THE PURCELL
SINGERS, ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, conducted by IMOGEN HOLST : record