Odysseus remembers
Malcolm Hayes

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Cantata

Additional Information

Narrative cantata for 4 soloists and orchestra

Text by the composer, after the Odyssey of Homer (Books X-XII)

Narrator (Odysseus), soprano (Circe), mezzo-soprano (Anticleia), countertenor (Teiresias) and orchestra

1(with low B).2picc(II=fl.2).alto fl.2.corA.2.2 bass clt.2.cbsn./4.3.3.1./timp.(5 drs., 2 plyrs)/6-7 perc./2 hp./pf./strs.: 16.14.12.10.8.

Commissioned by BBC Radio 3

fp: BBC Maida Vale Studios, 3 February 2006: Roderick Williams (Odysseus), Claire Booth (Circe), Andrew Watts (Teiresias), Susan Bickley (Anticleia), BBC Symphony Orchestra, cond. Edward Gardner

to listen online (extracts): www.malcolmhayes.co.uk - submenu 'Listen to Music'

CD recording: available from composer

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Minutes
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