Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex

Great, even definitive performance, with Pears in the title role and Modl as Jocasta giving immensely impressive accounts. The narration is in German, there are no notes, but it’s an indispensable disc. Michael Tanner

Michael Tanner

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:03 pm

COMPOSERS: Stravinsky
LABELS: Archipel
ALBUM TITLE: Stravinsky
WORKS: Oedipus Rex
PERFORMER: Pears, Mödl, Rehfuss, von Rohr, Krebs, Hessenland; Male Choir of NW German Radio; Cologne Radio SO/Stravinsky (1951)
CATALOGUE NO: ARPCD 0228

Great, even definitive performance, with Pears in the title role and Modl as Jocasta giving immensely impressive accounts. The narration is in German, there are no notes, but it’s an indispensable disc. Michael Tanner

Michael Tanner

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.
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