The Greeks Have Left The Plain
Dame Janet Baker (above) is Cassandra and Raimund Herincx is Chorebus in the great monologue and duet from Berlioz's PRISE DE TROIE, sung in English and conducted by Sir Colin Davis. The broadcast dates from
When I first received this recording from an English friend many, many years ago, I immediately put it on the old reel-to-reel deck. After the opening chorus, there is a dramatic orchestral interlude and then Dame Janet intoned her first line: "The Greeks have left the plain..."; this sent such a chill thru me that I stopped the tape. It took a couple of weeks before I listened again and found that the entire scene was so soul-wrenching that it became one of my great favorites in my enormous collection of operas and vocal music.
PRISE DE TROIE scene in English J Baker R Herincx Colin Davis BBC 1966
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