703610876019

Port Bou

Elliott Sharp

Regular
£12.99
Sale
Regular
£12.99
Sold Out
Unit Price
per 

Format: CD

Cat No: CDIS1010

Release Date:  16 December 2016

Label:  Infrequent Seams Records

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  703610876019

Genres:  Classical  

  • Description

    The opera PORT BOU by Elliott Sharp presents the last moments in the life of philosopher Walter Benjamin at Port-Bou in 1940 as he was fleeing Nazi-occupied France. PORT BOU features the astounding bass-baritone Nicholas Isherwood with virtuoso Jenny Lin on piano and William Schimmel on accordion as well as electro-acoustic backing tracks by Sharp. In his spoken introduction to the Berlin performance of PORT BOU, Volker Schlörndorf, director of The Tin Drum stated: "Anybody's agony, the night before closing the door on the world, is hard to transcribe in musical notes, I thought, even more so a philosopher's Angst. Yet, it can be done, and his voice, this particular voice, roaming a hotel room in exile, is proof of it. A metaphysical achievement. "

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Port Bou - Overture
      • 2. A Room
      • 3. Sh
      • 4. Words
      • 5. Ajsa
      • 6. Creation
      • 7. Reproduction
      • 8. Translation