Roger Marsh: Pierrot Lunaire Format:2CD University of Cambridge for its

University of Cambridge for its generous support of this recording

Catalogue number: NMC D082

Spanish-inflected Paseo

The Royal Opera Chorus

It is coupled with Wood's dramatic setting of Milton's masque Comus

Roger Marsh: Pierrot Lunaire Format:2CD University of Cambridge for itsRoger Marsh, long fascinated by the poems which Schoenberg set for his Pierrot Lunaire, has completed a setting of Albert Girauds brilliant and allusive original texts, ignored by Schoenberg commentators over the years. Marshs settings use both the original French and a new English translation specially commissioned from Kay Bourlier sometimes simultaneously and feature solo voice, choirs, a human beatbox and a narrator in the role of the poet