Duke Bluebeard's Castle
Béla Bartók, Gwynne Howell, Sally Burgess, BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Mark Elder
Artists
Album Info
Release Date: 1993Label: BBC Music Magazine
Total Playing Time 65:09Recorded live at St. David's, Cardiff, 11 January 1992. First broadcast on Radio 3 on 7 May 1992.
℗ 1993 BBC
© 1993 BBC
Exclusive CD only available from BBC Music Magazine
CD was shipped with BBC Music Magazine issue of 2 October 1993.
CD is packaged in a standard, plastic black-tray jewel case along with a single page cover insert, notes on back in English, and a back inlay sleeve.
The prologue narration is spoken initially in Hungarian and then also in English over it. Neither narrator is credited.
John Lloyd Davies is credited with the translation but only Sally Burgess sings his version. Gwynne Howell sings a different (uncredited) English translation. For a version where both singers sing the Lloyd Davies translation see Béla Bartók, John Tomlinson, Sally Burgess, Orchestra Of Opera North, Richard Farnes - Bluebeard's Castle.