Research Catalog

Black Pentecost

Title
Black Pentecost / Peter Maxwell Davies.
Author
Davies, Peter Maxwell, 1934-2016
Publication
  • [Hong Kong] : Naxos, [2014]
  • ℗1993

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
Request for On-site Use
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?
AudioUse in library CD25841Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors
  • Brown, George Mackay
  • Jones, Della
  • Wilson-Johnson, David
  • BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, performer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf
Description
1 audio disc (76:44) : digital; 4 3/4 in.
Uniform Title
Works. Selections
Alternative Title
Works.
Subject
  • Brown, George Mackay > Musical settings
  • Songs (Medium voice) with orchestra
  • Vocal duets with orchestra
Note
  • The 1st work for mezzo-soprano, baritone, and orchestra ; the 2nd for mezzo-soprano and orchestra.
  • Text of the 1st work taken from the novel Greenvoe by George Mackay Brown ; text of the 2nd work from Old Norse inscriptions on the prehistoric monument Maeshowe in Orkney.
  • Title from disc label.
  • Notes in English, song texts, and transliterations and translations for the 2nd work (7 pages, with portraits) inserted in container.
Credits (note)
  • Veronica Slater, producer ; John Timperley, engineer ; Mark Edwards, editor.
  • Re-issue ; originally issued as Collins Classics 13662 in 1993.
Language (note)
  • The 1st work sung in English ; the 2nd work sung in Old Norse.
Contents
Black Pentecost (54:00) -- Stone litany: "runes from a house of the dead" (22:44).
LCCN
747313235971
OCLC
  • ocn889924997
  • 889924997
  • SCSB-13637130
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries