Composer: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Performer: Christopher Robson, Henry Herford, Lesley-Jane Rogers, Deborah Miles-Johnson, John Bowley, Mark Rowlinson, Mary Carewe, Della Jones, Gerald Finley, Martyn Hill, Neil Jenkins, Jonathan Best
Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8660359-60
Release: 2014
Size: 435 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Resurrection
CD 01
Prologue
01. Mam
02. Dad
03. Sister
04. Brother
05. Headmaster
06. Vicar
07. Doctor
08. Chorale
Resurrection
09. Transition and Surgeons’ Introduction to the Act
Act
10. Abbot, Minister, Croesus, Comrade Serbsky
11. Political Rally
12. Revivalist Rally
CD 02
Act
01. Sex History
02. Hymn of Satisfaction
03. Song of the New Resurrection
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies began work on his parodic opera Resurrection whilst studying at Princeton in the early 1960s but it wasn’t until the 1980s that he resumed composition. Its violent diversity is aimed at several different targets – the state, Church, and media – and is often delivered through deliberate juxtapositions of opposing material. The opera is expressed through a dazzling masque-like succession of scenes, and the blackly comic pastiche of hymn tunes, marching band music, saccharine waltzes and banal TV advertisements.
Resurrection is about the conformity of an individual when brow beaten by the social and political forces that rage against him. The music helps anchor the plot to recognisable themes and uses many different styles and genres. This is the only recording that is currently available.