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Gerald Barry - The Intelligence Park

 
Gerald Barry - The Intelligence Park-Voices and Orchestra-Opera Collection
ID: NMCD122 (EAN: 5023363012225)  | 2 CD | DDD
Released in: 2005
LABEL:
NMC
Collection:
Opera Collection
Subcollection:
Voices and Orchestra
Composers:
BARRY, Gerald Anthony
Interprets:
CLAPTON, Nicholas | JACKSON, Richard (bass-baritone) | TUNSTALL, Angela (soprano)
Ensembles:
Almeida Ensemble
Other info:

The Intelligence Park, recorded in the 1990 Almeida Opera production and setting Vincent Deane's libretto of 18th-century Dublin, explores the relationship between an opera composer and the increasingly independent life of the characters he has created.

Set in 1753, (although the music is not fashioned on that of the era) the story is an old-fashioned ‘opera-seria’ on the subject of conflict between head and heart, duty and inclincation, based around a composer who falls in love with a castrato.
Tracklist
 

CD 1
BARRY, Gerald Anthony (b.1952) 
1. Jeremy Budd, treble/ Richard Jackson, bass baritone/ Paul Harrhy, tenor/Almeida Ensemble/ Robert Houlihan, conductor Act 1 sc i. Treble: Fathers beget2:56 
2. Jackson / Harrhy/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act 1 sc i. Paradies: I cannotwork, D'Esperaudieu5:46 
3. Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Interlude: The Banquet of Dummies1:26 
4. Stephen Richardson, bass/ Jackson/ Harrhy/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act 1sc ii. Cramer: To greater and to richer heights2:39 
5. Angela Tunstall, soprano/ Richardson/ Jackson/ Harrhy/ Almeida Ensemble/Houlihan Act 1 sc ii. Cramer: But ye must forgive me, sirs2:08 
6. Tunstall/ Richardson/ Jackson/ Harrhy/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act 1 sc ii: Cramer: Play for us, Paradies2:23 
7. Buddug Verona James, contralto/ Tunstall/ Richardson/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act 1 sc ii. Jerusha: The smiling Dawn3:01 
8. James/ Jackson/ Harrhy/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan - Act 1 sc ii. Faranesi: I would have you know, sirs 4:48 
9. Nicholas Clapton, countertenor/ Richardson/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act 1 sc ii. Serafino: L'onda dal mar divisa2:06 
10. Chorus/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Interlude. Chorus: To board! To board!1:19 
11. Jackson / Harrhy/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act 1 sc iii. D'Esperau And i said, Madam3:13 
12. Jackson / Harrhy/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act 1 sc iii. D'speraudieu through the evening5:12 
13. Richardson/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Intelude. Cramer: Mourn! Mourn! Day is with Darkness fled.1:59 
14. Clapton/ James/ Jackson/ Harrhy/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act 1 sc iv. Paradies: Begin: Daub's Bower6:02 

CD 2
1. Clapton/ Tunstall/ James/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act II sc i. Serafino, Jerusha: Gatto cieco1:10 
2. Tunstall/ James/ Clapton/ Richardson/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act II sc i. Jerusha, Faranesi: Fina...sera...rosa...2:00 
3. Tunstall/ James/ Richardson/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act II sc i. Jer L'onda dal mar divisa2:07 
4. Tunstall/ James/ Richardson/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act II sc i. Cr The tawny Nassau sun3:05 
5. Clapton/ James/ Jackson / Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act II sc ii. Para Daub. Daub.1:47 
6. Harrhy/ Jackson / Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act II sc iii. D'Esperau The boy abandons me4:12 
7. Harrhy/ Jackson / Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Interlude: D'Esperaudieu: Truly Dublin, you begin to bore me0:46 
8. Harrhy/ James/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act II sc iv: D'Esperaudieu: White bird featherless2:35 
9. Jackson / James/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act II sc v. Paradies: But this is foolishness!2:50 
10. Harrhy/ Jackson / Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act II sc v. D'Esperau Such passion! My! my! my!2:16 
11. Richardson/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act II sc v. Cramer: Sweet loving Jesus!1:16 
12. Jackson / James/ Harrhy/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act II sc v. Para My father's will annulled1:19 
13. Richardson/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act II sc v. Cramer: Burst Heavens asunder1:48 
14. Clapton/ Tunstall/ Jackson/ Richardson/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act II sc Daub: Gia vicino è il momento2:49 
15. Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act 3: Prelude - Paradies' room1:46 
16. Harrhy/ Jackson / Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act 3 Station I. D'Esperau Nature inanimate1:53 
17. Clapton/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act 3 Station II. Serafino: Piu non sembra0:43 
18. Richardson/ Chorus/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act 3 Station III. Chorus: Bz! Bzz! Bzzz! Bzzzz!2:36 
19. Clapton/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act 3 Station IV. Serafino: Non sembra ardito e fiero0:51 
20. Tunstall/ Clapton/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act 3 sc i. Jerusha: Dublin Packet Bari cruel finesse3:35 
21. Jackson / Harrhy/ Chorus/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act 3 sc ii. Paradies:Returned!1:25 
22. James/ Jackson/ Richardson/ Chorus/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act 3 sc iii. Chorus: Deal. Deal. Deal. Deal.6:11 
23. Richardson/ Harrhy/ Chorus/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act 3 sc iii. Chorus: Pallid the Sun3:16 
24. Richardson/ Harrhy/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act 3 sc iii. Cramer devil take your damned medicines!1:23 
25. Chorus/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Interlude. Chorus: Mourn! Mourn!1:56 
26. Clapton/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act 3 sc iv. Serafino: L'onda dal mar2:17 
27. Clapton/ Angela Tunstall/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act 3 sc iv. Serafino: Conservami il tuo amore0:30 
28. Jackson/ Clapton/ Tunstall/ Almeida Ensemble/ Houlihan Act 3 sc v. Paradies: Calma del cor2:02 

Review:
 

"It seems an even better piece now than it did 15 years ago: one moment grotesquely funny; the next touchingly beautiful. There is real pathos in some of the characters too, while an air of absurdity is ever-present."
The Guardian, 2005


 

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