Handel Dixit Dominus
4.10*
Seiber Ulysses
A cantata for tenor, chorus, and orchestra
Matyas Seiber 's cantata Ulysses is probably his most important large-scale work. Completed in 1847, the text comes from the penultimate chapter of James Joyce 's book of the same name, and because it includes a great deal of scientific jargon. might appear unrewarding material to select for setting to music. However, with what imagination and subtlety the composer has met the challenge, and how untimely his sudden death in 1960. A. F-G.
MARGARET PRICE (soprano)
MARJORIE THOMAS (contralto) ALEXANDER YOUNG (tenor)
AMBROSIAN SINGERS
Hubert Dawkes (harpsichord and organ continuo)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Leader, Raymond Cohen
Conducted by ERICH SCHMID
Nineteenth of twenty-four programmes