“Gordon Getty’s cantata Joan and the Bells is a distinctive and musically appealing version of the Joan of Arc story, beginning with her trial for heresy and witchcraft, and building to a startling climax as she faces death at the stake...The second section, an eight-minute monologue for Joan...displays thematic unity and a consistent melodiousness. [Joan and the Bells] is dramatically assured, structurally sound, and likable without being obvious...eminently recommendable.”
Joshua Rosenblum
Opera News, October 2003
Joan and the Bells – RNO, Lisa Delan, Konstantin Shushakov
Footage from a performance featuring the Russian National Orchestra and the Yurlov State Academic Choir, under the baton of Mikhail Pletnev and starring soprano Lisa Delan and baritone Konstantin Shushakov.
