One generation's pornography is another generation's curiosity. Grenville Bantock's setting of his wife's dilations on Sappho entitled Sappho from 1906 was supremely seductive to the Edwardian England of its day, a seductiveness spiced by the apparent uncertain nature of the sexual inclinations of Bantock's wife. But whether it is Sappho and her lovers, his wife and her lovers, or his wife and himself Bantock is depicting, there is no question that, judged purely in terms of musical pornography, Bantock's Sappho was once, ...
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One generation's pornography is another generation's curiosity. Grenville Bantock's setting of his wife's dilations on Sappho entitled Sappho from 1906 was supremely seductive to the Edwardian England of its day, a seductiveness spiced by the apparent uncertain nature of the sexual inclinations of Bantock's wife. But whether it is Sappho and her lovers, his wife and her lovers, or his wife and himself Bantock is depicting, there is no question that, judged purely in terms of musical pornography, Bantock's Sappho was once, with its luxuriant melodies, voluptuous harmonies, lascivious colors, and orgasmic mezzo soprano, very, very hot stuff.But as this 1997 recording by mezzo soprano Susan Bickley with Vernon Handley and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra demonstrates, Bantock's Sappho is now about as exciting as a French postcard or a Tijuana Bible. This is not to say that the performers do not do everything in their powers to beguile and entice. The Royal Philharmonic is rich and ripe. Handley's...
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