Enoch Arden

Enoch Arden

Melodrama for Speaker and Piano

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Read by: Benjamin Luxon, Frederick Moyer - piano

Language: English

Length: 1 hour and 12 minutes

Publisher: JRI Recordings

Release date: 2012-01-24

Continuing a collaboration started years ago with a performance at Tanglewood of Schubert' Die Schone Mullerin, Benjamin Luxon and Frederick Moyer now turn to the little-explored genre of music for piano and narrator.

Enoch Arden first came to international attention with a recording by Claude Raines and Glenn Gould, but it has since drifted back to obscurity. This is a work that both Luxon and Moyer have loved for many years. The poem is immediately accessible to any audience and tells a heart-wrenching story of friendship, love, separation, and sacrifice. The masterful score creates a powerful soundtrack to the saga. Music by Richard Strauss, performed on piano by Frederick Moyer.