Hans Werner Henzes The Raft of the Medusa is directly inspired by Théodore Géricaults famous painting The German composer sets to music the fate of 150 people who have been shipwrecked and ...

Extraction: The Raft of the Medusa portrays a brief moment of euphoria as the occupants on the raft spot a glimpsic illusion for their drift, hoping and praying to be rescued. We can almost hear ...