Instrumentation

timp - perc(2): t.bell/cyms/tam-t/TD/BD/susp.cym - harpsichord - strings

Availability

Full score 0-571-51099-X and vocal score 0-571-50521-X on sale, parts for hire

Reviews

". . .has an extraordinary bleakness, like cold stone in winter sunlight. The instruments, mainly strings and percussion, are systematically drained of color, yet the final moments offer some of the most delicate orchestration ever written." Bernard Holland, The New York Times, 19 February 1994

Phaedra

St John the Baptist Church (Little Missenden, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom)

Richard Hetherington/Christine Rice

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Phaedra

possibility of more dates

Stoller Hall, Chetham's School of Music (Manchester, United Kingdom)

Karen Cargill/Manchester Camerata/Simone Menezes