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Composer of the Week: Stravinsky

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3: Donald Macleod introduces two works inspired by Greek mythology. The opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex of 1927 has a libretto by Jean Cocteau , based on Sophocles's play and translated into Latin. And the first performance in Paris of Apollo in 1928 was a major event for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes as it was theirfirst new Stravinsky ballet in five years. Oedipus Rex, Act 1
Orchestra of St Luke's, conductor Robert Craft
Ballet: Apollo
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor Simon Rattle
Repeated on Tuesday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Introduces:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Jean Cocteau
Conductor:
Simon Rattle
Narrator:
Paul Newman(spoken Role)
Oedipus:
Jon Humphrey(tenor)
Tiresias:
John Cheek(bass)
Creon:
John Ostendorfj
Shepherd Jon:
Garrison (tenor)
Source: Radio Times

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