Orlando

by Virginia Woolf

Read by Laura Paton

Orlando is one of the most unforgettable creations of twentieth-century literature. He emerges as a young man at the court of Queen Elizabeth I and progresses, with breathtaking ease, through three centuries until, by now a woman, she arrives in the bustle and diversion of the 1920s. For Virginia Woolf, a leading figure of the Bloomsbury Group, Orlando was more than a fantastic flight of imagination. It was a roman à clef, a love letter for her lover, the charismatic, eccentric bisexual, Vita Sackville West. Orlando’s journey, from wondrous youth barbed by love, to fêted writer, settled in her femininity, is a wild and curiously relevant fable for our times.

Music: Dowland, Galliard, Vivaldi, Couperin, Marcello, C. P. E. Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Coates, Ravel

2 CDs
Running Time: 2:29:04
ISBN: 9-62634-004-5
Catalogue no: NA200412
US SRP: $17.98 / CANADA SRP: Can$23.95