Armonico Consort / Timothy West / Elin Manahan Thomas / Christopher Monks

Toby Young: Beowulf Armonico Consort / Timothy West / Elin Manahan Thomas / Christopher Monks

This recording of a new musical telling of the story, composed by Toby Young, blurs traditional sense of the genre of classical music by merging it with folk and popular music. This fusion is what makes Beowulf a fantastic story. The greatest versions of the story are not the simple good verses bad, but the ones which involve slight ambiguous points; ones which allow the reader/listener to mkae his/her mind up about what is exactly going on. The combination of Toby Young's score and Jennifer Thorp's libretto create this perfectly.