Gustav Holst, Felicity Palmer, Philip Langridge, Stephen Varcoe, The Richard Hickox Singers, Colin Matthews, Patrizia Kwella, City Of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox – Sāvitri / The Dream-City (M/VG+)

Sāvitri / The Dream-City is an LP by Gustav Holst, Felicity Palmer, Philip Langridge, Stephen Varcoe, The Richard Hickox Singers, Colin Matthews, Patrizia Kwella, City Of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox from 1983 released on the Hyperion label.

About this album

Holst’s Sāvitri / The Dream-City presents two concentrated works that show his strikingly individual modern voice beyond the best-known orchestral pieces. Sāvitri, a chamber opera drawn from the Mahābhārata, is intense, economical and haunting, with Felicity Palmer, Philip Langridge and Stephen Varcoe among the principal performers. The Dream-City expands Holst’s dramatic imagination in a more ambitious theatrical setting, here led by Richard Hickox with the City of London Sinfonia and the Richard Hickox Singers. Issued in 1983, this recording helped bring renewed attention to Holst’s stage music and his ability to combine direct melody with austere, forward-looking harmony.

Genre: Classical