Second release on Challenge Classics by Dutch leading composer Willem Jeths. After a survey of his symphonic music (CC 72693), this new disc is devoted to his most recent opera. ‘Portrait’ is an opera that focuses on the legendary figure of Luisa Casati, a richest Italian woman living at the beginning of 20th Century and muse of many great artists of her timeJeths’ music is fully approachable and imbued with references to the great music of Ravel and Strauss era.

• - 1 -

  • 1. Scene 0: Warm Welcome (03:41)
  • 2. Scene 1: Party At the Palazzo (12:15)
  • 3. Scene 2: a Break By Brooks (22:00)
  • 4. Scene 3: Three is a Crowd (08:23)
  • 5. Scene 4: the End of an Era (06:50

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  • 1. Scene 5: the Two of Us Together (18:50)
  • 2. Scene 6: Battlefield Deliberation (37:51)