Composer: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Performer: Neil Mackie, Christopher Keyte, Ian Comboy
Orchestra: Members of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8660354
Release: 2014
Size: 260 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
The Lighthouse
Part 1
01. Prologue. The Court of Enquiry (Officer 1, Officer 2, Officer 3)
Part 2
02. The Cry of the Beast (Arthur, Blazes, Sandy, Voice of the Cards)
03. Blazes’ Song (Blazes, Sandy, Arthur)
04. Sandy’s Song (Sandy, Arthur, Blazes)
05. Arthur’s Song (Arthur, Sandy, Blazes, Officer 1, Officer 2, Officer 3)
On a routine tour of duty in December 1900 the supply ship Hesperus discovered the Flannan Isles lighthouse in the Outer Hebrides to be empty, the three keepers apparently having disappeared into thin air. Peter Maxwell Davies’ haunting and thrilling chamber opera The Lighthouse is heard here in its classic première recording. It shows what might have become of the three men, marooned in their storm-bound tower and overwhelmed by ghostly visions and crazed desperation, creating a dramatic imagining of a story which remains a mystery to this day.