「神話」組曲

語り手と作曲家、二人の才能が生み出した新たなギリシャ神話の世界

『The Mythos Suite』はオーディオ・ネットワークがスティーヴン・フライの語り手としての才能と作曲家としてOBEを受章したデビー・ワイズマンの手腕を結びつけたユニークなプロジェクトです。音楽はスティーヴン・フライがギリシャ神話を書き直し、進展させた世界的ベストセラーの作品『Mythos』を元にデビー・ワイズマンにより作曲されました。世界の始まり(カオス)の音楽物語、同様にアポロンとマルシュアス、ペルセポネ、レア、シシュフォスの音楽物語の5トラックの組曲がナショナル交響楽団の演奏で披露されます。このCDではさらに楽器のみの5トラックも加えられています。

ギリシャ神話が現代の読者にもわかりやすく書き直されたスティーヴン・フライの著書『Mythos』はフランス、ドイツ、イタリア、中国の他、23ヵ国で翻訳され発売されています。
ユニバーサル・ミュージック/IMS

The success of this release is doubtless due to the presence of popular actor, comedian, writer and (importantly) voice-over artist, Stephen Fry, a figure of catholic (although not Catholic) interests who can inspire interest in almost any topic from football (soccer) to Lewis Carrolls Cheshire Cat. That explanation should not, however, blind listeners unfamiliar with the Fry magic to the albums virtues. He tells five Greek myths, and it is likely true that if those myths had been taught this way in schools, they would be more familiar than they are now, but theres more to it: Frys tales are accompanied by little soundtracks by composer Debbie Wiseman, generally in a film soundtrack style, and divided by Wisemans short interludes on the same mythic theme as the preceding tale. These were composed earlier, inspired by a Fry book on myths, but they seem entirely unified with the tale accompaniments, and it is this, even as the music and text have been sliced and diced in various ways, that gives the whole its power. This is a release that will be welcomed not only by Fry fans, not even only by lovers of myth, but by anyone interested in innovative ways of joining music to nonmusical arts.