Composer: Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson
Performer: Ian Caddy, Alexander Oliver, Cynthia Buchan, John Winfield, Thomas Lawlor, Anthony Smith
Orchestra: RTE Sinfonietta, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones, Nicholas Cleobury
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8660510
Release: 2022
Size: 351 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Caprice péruvien
Le carosse du Saint-Sacrement (Sung in English)
02. Scene 1: The Auditors Are Here
03. Scene 2: Balthasar I Want My New Velvet Suit
04. Scene 3: Alright, Since It Seems I Have No Choice
05. Scene 4: It Is Strange I Can’t Come to See How You Are
06. Scene 5: Oh That Angel Treats Me Just the Way She Likes
07. Scene 6: Your Highness, the Licencié Thomas d’Esquivel Is Here
08. Scene 7: Good Morning, Your Highness
09. Scene 8: You First, My Dear Señora
Lord Berners was an eccentric novelist, painter and aesthete, but it is as a composer that he is best remembered. Berners saw Prosper Mérimée’s play Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement in 1917 and “was at once fascinated by the grace, the spirit and the character of this little work”. Abandoning operatic tradition, this light and transparently orchestrated version of the narrative unfolds concisely and continuously. The amusing tale is one of domestic bickering and a minor miracle brought about by an act of charity, “held together in the style of a symphonic poem”.