Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) - Oedipus Rex (1994)
Cover Front Album
Composer Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Conductor Seiji Ozawa
Orchestra / Ensemble I Saito Kinen Orchestra
Length 52:27
Format CD
Genre Vocal; Opera
Chorus I Shinyukai Male Choir
Chorus Master Shin Sekiya
Index 514
Out of Print Yes
Musicians
Soloist Schreier; Norman; Terfel; Peetes; Swensen; Tatara; Wilson
Credits
Producer Willhelm Hellweg
Label Philips
Track List
01 Prologue: "Spectateurs" 00:59
02 Act I: "Caedit nos pestis" 03:29
03 Act I: "Liberi, vos liberabo" 03:15
04 Act I: "Voici Creon" 00:25
05 Act I: "Respondit Deus" 03:34
06 Act I: "Non reperias vetus scelus" 03:25
07 Act I: "Oedipe interroge la fontaine" 00:37
08 Act I: "Delie exspectamus" 01:56
09 Act I: "Dicere non possum" 02:51
10 Act I: "Invidia fortunam odit" 02:34
11 Act I: "Gloria" 00:58
12 Act II: "La dispute des princes" 01:10
13 Act II: "Gloria!" 00:57
14 Act II: "Nonn' erubescite, reges" 07:28
15 Act II: "Trivium, trivium..." 03:04
16 Act II: "Le temoin du meurtre sort " 00:44
17 Act II: "Adest omniscius pastor" 05:37
18 Act II: "In monte reppertus est" 02:07
19 Act II: "Et maintenant" 01:45
20 Act II: "Divium Jocastae" 03:14
21 Act II: "Ecce! Regem Oedipoda" 02:18
Personal
Purchase Date 12/16/1998
Value $16.50
Store BMG
Condition 100%
Librettist Jean Cocteau
Nationality Russian
"Form" Opera-Oratorio in Two Acts
Language Latin
Period 20th Century
Details
Studio Canora Hall, Okaya, Japan
Catalog Number 438 865-2
Live No
Recording Date 9/1/1992
Spars DDD
Reissue No
Sound Stereo
Notes
Oedipus: Peter Schreier
Jocasta: Jessye Norman
Creon: Bryn Terfel
Tiresias: Harry Peeters
Shepherd: Robert Swensen
Messenger: Michio Tatara
Narrator: Georges Wilson

Poem after Sophocles

Notes, text and translation

Essay: "A Tragedy of Epic Impersonality" by Max Harrison