John Metcalf’s 2014 opera based on Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood.
(2 CDs)
Michael Douglas Jones (bass-baritone) – Captain Cat; Karina Lucas (mezzo) – Rosie Probert, Mrs Cherry Owen, Mrs Willy Nilly, Mrs Utah Watkins; Eamonn Mulhall (tenor) – Reverend Eli Jenkins, Mog Edwards; Richard Morris (baritone) – Mr Waldo, Mr Ogmore, Cherry Owen, Utah Watkins, Tom-Fred, Inspector of Cruelty; Elizabeth Donovan (soprano) – Polly Garter, Myfanwy Price, Mrs Butcher Beynon, Mrs Floyd; Helen-Jane Howells (soprano) – Gossamer Beynon, Lily Smalls, Mrs Pugh; Gweneth-Ann Jeffers (soprano) – Mrs Ogmore Pritchard, Mrs Organ Morgan, Bessie Bighead, Mae Rose-Cottage; Paul Carey Jones (baritone) – Sinbad Sailors, Dancing Williams, Mr Pritchard, Mr Pugh, Mr Floyd, Willy Nilly, Fisherman; Wyn Davies (light tenor) – Organ Morgan, music director; Parmela Attariwala (viola, violin, crwth); Deian Rowlands (harp, Lever harp); Jose Zalba Smith (flutes); Paul Stoneman (percussion)
Recorded at St German’s Church, Cardiff, 9-10 April 2014
Total duration: 109.43 [60.13 + 48.58]