Beowulf - Toby Young - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

This recording of a new musical telling of the story, composed by Toby Young, blurs traditional sense of the genre of classical music by merging it with folk and popular music. This fusion is what makes Beowulf a fantastic story. The greatest versions of the story are not the simple good verses bad, but the ones which involve slight ambiguous points; ones which allow the reader/listener to mkae his/her mind up about what is exactly going on. The combination of Toby Young’s score and Jennifer Thorp’s libretto create this perfectly.

Tracklist

1. Beowulf - Prologue (02:37)
2. Beowulf - Celebration (02:31)
3. Beowulf - Hwaet! Listen (00:47)
4. Beowulf - Great Hall (03:42)
5. Beowulf - Refrain (00:29)
6. Beowulf - Interlude: the Fight (04:04)
7. Beowulf - Grendel's Bad Deeds (02:37)
8. Beowulf - Sweet Song (01:19)
9. Beowulf - Unferth's Row (01:49)
10. Beowulf - Refrain (01:29)
11. Beowulf - Grendel-Beowulf Battle (03:33)
12. Beowulf - When I Was King (04:42)
13. Beowulf - Interlude: Triumph (02:35)
14. Beowulf - Rousing Song (01:49)
15. Beowulf - Refrain (01:09)
16. Beowulf - Presentation of Hrunting (01:55)
17. Beowulf - Grendel's Mother (03:06)
18. Beowulf - Rise Up (03:21)
19. Beowulf - Hrothgar's Sermon (01:57)
20. Beowulf - Interlude: Searching (05:26)
21. Beowulf - Chorus of Soldiers (02:34)
22. Beowulf - Refrain (01:26)
23. Beowulf - My Lord Has Gone (01:34)
24. Beowulf - Final Chorus (03:25)

Label: Signum Classics | Origin: Holland

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