Composers: Hans Werner Henze
Compositions: The Raft of the Medusa
Performers: Camilla Nylund s, Peter Schöne bar, Peter Stein nar, SWR Symphonieorchester/Péter Eötvös
Catalogue Number: SWR CLASSIC SWR19082CD

Hans Werner Henze (1926-2012) wrote his oratorio Das Floß der Medusa (The Raft of the Medusa) in 1968, a tumultuous year of student unrest in Europe. It was inspired by Le Radeau de la Méduse, painted 150 years earlier by Théodore Géricault, and depicting the horrific, scandalous shipwreck of the Méduse off the West African coast in 1816, during which 147 people were brutally set adrift...