Hurd - The Aspern Papers
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Special offer. Michael Hurd: The Aspern Papers & The Night of the Wedding
Two Chamber Operas
Owen Gilhooly (Harry Jordan), Pippa Goss (Mrs Prest), Clare McCaldin (Miss Tina/Servant), Louise Winter (Juliana Bordereau), Nicholas Morton (Count Gervaise de Polisson), Garry Humphreys (Antoine, his manservant), Rhian Lois (La Marquise de Belle Poitrine), Matthew Buswell (Le Marquis), Simon Lepper...
The juicy stuff lies in the orchestral writing (beautifully played), often suffused with a wistful melancholy distantly suggesting the moodier film scores of Bernard Herrmann…George Vass's team... —
