Judith Weir: The Vanishing Bridegroom Otaka; Tadaaki Recording Producer: STEPHEN ADAMS

Recording Producer: STEPHEN ADAMS

I suggest you couldn’t do better’ Gramophone

and the phantasmagorical sequence Traumwerk

London on 5th August 1970

and to The Zochonis Charitable Trust for its support of this series

Judith Weir: The Vanishing Bridegroom Otaka; Tadaaki Recording Producer: STEPHEN ADAMSJudith Weir's opera, commission by Glasgow District Council for the 1990 City of Culture celebrations, takes three Scottish folktales, all concerned with disappearance: The Inheritance features a runaway bride, a singing forest and a lost sum of gold; The Disappearance tells of a man abducted by supernatural forces; and The Stranger is the story of an independent minded girl wooed by a sinister stranger. Weir's writing combines lush descriptive