Barry: Alice's Adventures Underground

Barry: Alice’s Adventures Underground

£8.00 – £14.00

Signum Classics is proud to announce a new label partnership and recording debut with Irish National Opera, presenting the world-premiere recording of Gerald Barry’s opera, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, based on the famous book by Lewis Carroll.

Irish National Opera is Ireland’s newest and most enterprising opera company. It champions Irish creativity in its casting, its choice of creative teams and in its commitment to the presentation of new operas.

André de Ridder’s stylistic versatility, projects and collaborations make him much in demand by the BBC Proms, the Holland, Sydney and Manchester International Festivals, and orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, Chicago and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, among others.

“Barry’s artistic voice is shocking, enchanting and often downright weird. He revels in contrasting the hilariously absurd with the heart-wrenchingly beautiful to create a surreal musical language that is perfectly suited to the fantasy world of Lewis Carroll.” Toby Young, composer

★★★★★ Performance, ★★★★ Recording “[Such] musical references are so beautifully integrated they enhance the referential nature of Carroll’s original narrative arc” – BBC Music Magazine

★★★★★ “An explosive version of Alice in Wonderland…the album version of this memorable lyrical comedy is brilliantly conducted by André de Ridder at the head of an unleashed Irish Chamber Orchestra…Barry pulls off brilliant satire saturated with ferociously destructive nonsense with panache.” –  Classica

★★★★★ “I missed it on stage, but this recording does the work theatrical justice simply because it is a theatrical score, full of surprises delights the ear. André de Ridder conducts the Irish Chamber Orchestra with total control of the chaotic score” – Musical Opinion

SKU: SIGCD695

Irish National Opera

Irish Chamber Orchestra

Release date: 05/11/2021

Catalogue number: SIGCD695

Barcode: 635212069523

 

“The work gets a performance of extraordinary brilliance from a cast and orchestra at the top of their virtuoso abilities…most listeners are likely to find their attention gripped” – Opera Magazine

“Soprano Claudia Boyle as Alice delivers an astonishing, mesmerising performance…credit should go to the rest of the cast – Clare Presland’s Blackadder-like Red Queen, Hilary Summers’s doleful Dormouse, Gavan Ring’s brilliantly bonkers Mad Hatter and Stephen Richardson’s quixotic White Night just some of the highlights in a performance brilliantly marshalled by Andre de Ridder and the Irish Chamber Orchestra that is chock-full of shocks and surprises” – Gramophone

“This recording, masterfully conducted by André de Ridder, thrives on the interaction between the Irish Chamber Orchestra, bursting with playfulness, and an excellent vocal team: Clare Presland, Hilary Summers, Peter Tantsits, Stephen Richardson and Alan Ewing each toss the vocal balls to each other in several roles. But the centrepiece is Claudia Boyle’s Alice, whose stunning extreme heights are in a class of their own”– Orpheus Magazin.de

[1] “I shall be too late!… Down!”
[2] “Drink!”
[3] “Which way? Which way?”
[4] A Mad Tea-Party… “Nurse it for a bit.”
[5] The Queen’s Piano and Croquet Masterclass
[6] The Lobster-Quadrille
[7] The Trial – Who Stole the Tarts?
[8] Jabberwocky in Russian
[9] The Garden of Live Flowers… Chorus of Daisies
[10] “When you get to the Eighth Square, you’ll be a Queen.”
[11] Jabberwocky in French
[12] Jabberwocky in German
[13] “Remember who you are! Goodbye.”
[14] Tweedledum and Tweedledee
[15] “Bread and butter,”
[16] Humpty Dumpty
[17] “I’ve sent them all!”
[18] The White Queen Running Across the Country… “Look, look!”
[19] “Ahoy! Ahoy! Check!”
[20] “Without the frost, the blinding snow,”

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