Composers: Pauline Viardot
Compositions: Le Dernier Sorcier
Performers: Trudie Styler narr, Eric Owens b-bar, Jamie Barton ms, Myra Huang p, Liana Pailodze Harron p
Catalogue Number: Bridge BRIDGE9515

This premiere recording of Pauline Viardot’s 1867 Le Dernier Sorcier (The Last Sorcerer) is a delight. With a libretto by Ivan Turgenev, it tells the story of a sorcerer, Krakamiche, whose forest home comes at the expense of its rightful inhabitants, the fairies. Now with diminished powers, he is unable to fend them off any longer. A classic story of redemption, he learns the importance...