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Purves/WNO Orchestra and Chorus/Negus: MacMillan: The Sacrifice | CD review

(Chandos, 2CDs)The jury is still out on James ÂMacMillan's emotive 2007 opera, which controversially projects a tale from the Mabinogion on to a futuristic Âvision of Britain as a paramilitary tribal Âdystopia. Considered overwhelming by some in the theatre, it comes over as Âintermittent at best on disc. MacMillan has acknowledged that Elektra was on his mind at the time of composition, and like Strauss's masterpiece, The Sacrifice deals with the self-perpetuating nature of uncheck...

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Purves/WNO Orchestra and Chorus/Negus: MacMillan: The Sacrifice | CD review

Guardian Music — (Chandos, 2CDs)The jury is still out on James ÂMacMillan's emotive 2007 opera, which controversially projects a tale from the Mabinogion on to a futuristic Âvision ... more info

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