Saxton: The Wandering Jew – review

Williams/BBC Singers and SO/de Ridder(NMC, 2 CDs)Robert Saxton's "radio opera" took a long time – more than 20 years – to reach fruition. Commissioned by the BBC, it was assembled in the studio and first broadcast on Radio 3 last year, and this is that recording of the hugely ambitious, 100-minute work. With a text by Saxon himself examining the antisemitic medieval legend of the Wandering Jew, who taunted Christ on his way to the crucifixion and so was condemned to walk the earth until the ...

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