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George Frideric HANDEL ALEXANDER BALUS
THE LASTEST EDITION IN THE OUTSTANDING HANDEL SERIES ON NEWPORT PREMIER
Rudolph Palmer conducts the 1748 English oratorio by George Frideric Handel with period instruments orchestra and fine American cast assembles by John Ostendorf.
Julianne Baird, CLEOPATRA • Jennifer Lane, ALEXANDER • D’Anna Fortunato, ASPASIA • Lorie Gratis, MESSENGER • Frederick Urrey, JONATHAN & Peter Castaldi, PTOLOMEE, MESSENGER SYCOPHANT COURIER
PALMER SINGERS / BREWER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Edward Brewer, harpsichord RUDOLPH PALMER, conductor
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85625/2 (2CD SET)
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HANDEL: FURY WITH RED SPARKLING EYES
Dramatic Arias
Jenny Lane, mezzo-soprano • Edward Brewer, harpsichord Brewer Chamber Orchestra • Rudolph Palmer, conductor
Lascia ch’io pianga, RINALDO • Fury with red sparkling eyes, ALEXANDER BALUS • O Mithra, ALEXANDER BALUS • Act I Introduction, JOSHUA • Con Lui volate, MUZIO SCEVOLA • Ah, dolce nome, MUZIO SCEVOLA • Overture: Gigue, SIROE • Se ben mi lusinga, FARAMONDO Warlike Flourish, JOSHUA • Voglio che sia, BERENICE • Where e’re you walk, SEMELE • Si, tra I ceppi, BERENICE
Jennifer Lane has always found the operas and oratorios of Handel a source of extremely satisfying vocal material. She says that a recording represents a frozen moment and that she hopes that all who listen will enjoy what Maestro Palmer and she have captured on this disc. All the words for the arias are to be found in English in the CD booklet.
Catalogue Number: NPD 85628
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George Frideric HANDEL
HANDEL ~ MUZIO
The First Recording of Handel’s First London Opera
Julianne Baird • Eric Mills • Andrea Matthews •D’Anna Fortunato • Jennifer Lane • Frederick Urrey •JohnOstendorf
The Brewer Baroque Chamber Orchestra (Original Instruments)
Edward Brewer, harpsichord Rudolph Palmer, conductor
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85540/2 ~ (2 CD SET)
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HANDEL ~ SOSARME
First Digital Issue
This work comes from the peak of Handel’s years in London. A tale of violent court intrigue - civil strife, frustrated love, treacherous ambition, and suicide - Handel’s original setting in contemporary Portugal proved so embarrassing to King George II that the composer was forced to reset the story in ancient Persia
Prize winning Baroque conductor Johannes Somary directs a distinguished American cast led by Julianne Baird, John Aler and countertenor Drew Minter. D’Anna Fortunato • Jennifer Lane • Nathaniel Watson and Raymond Pellerin complete the superb cast.
Features the Amor Artis Orchestra and the Taghanic Chorale
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85575/2 ~ (2 CD SET)
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HANDEL ~ BERENICE
(OPERA IN THREE ACTS)
PREMIERE RECORDING FEATURING JULIANNE BAIRD
Julianne Baird • Jan Opalach • Drew Minter
The Brewer Chamber Orchestra Rudolph Palmer, conductor
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85620/3 ~ (3 CD SET)
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HANDEL ~ ACIS & GALATEA
RE-ISSUE ~ NEW PACKAGING ~ 2CD SET
Julianne Baird, Galatea • John Ostendorf, Polyphemus •
Grayson Hirst, Acis • Stephen Oosting, Damon • Jeffrey Dooley, Alto
AMORATIS ORCHESTRA ~ Johannes Somary, conductor
Composed in 1718 to a libretto by John Gay, this in a finely and intimately scaled masque intended to provide entertainment and edification within the framework of an entire evening of festivities. Julianne Baird, John Ostendorf, and Jeffrey Dooley, accompanied by the Amor Artis Orchestra - Johannes Somary, conductor
Performed on Period Instruments
CATALOGUE NO.: NCD 60045/2 ~ (2 CD SET)
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George Frideric HANDEL ~ JOSHUA
English Oratorio in three acts (1747)
Premiere recording / period instruments - Critically Acclaimed as the Best on CD
John Aler • Julianne Baird • D’Anna Fortunato • John Ostendorf
The Palmer Singers The Brewer Chamber Orchestra Edward Brewer, harpsichord
Rudolph Palmer, conductor
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85515/2 ~ (2 CD SET)
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HANDEL ~ ENGLISH ARIAS WHERE’RE YOU WALK
English Arias from the Oratorios & Masques of George Frederic Handel, performed by a cast of America’s finest Early Music Vocalists.
Brewer Chamber Orchestra
Edward Brewer, harpsichord Rudolph Palmer, conductor
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85610
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HANDEL ~ "FAVOURITE ARIAS"
JULIANNE BAIRD, Americas finest Early Music Soprano sings celebrated masterpieces from the operas and oratorios of George Frederic Handel. Julianne Baird is accompanied by a period-instrument orchestra led by Baroque specialist RUDOLPH PALMER in a programme assembled and produced by John Ostendorf.
Dopo notte atra e funesta - ARIODANTE Act II (1735) • Come, Divine Inspirer, Come - JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN Act I (1744)
Gigue - SIROE Act 1 • Overture/Fugue - MUZIO SCEVOLA Act III Introduction - JOSHUA Part I • Myself I Shall Adore - SEMELE (1744) • Oh Had I Jubal’s Lyre - JOSHUA Part III,
Julianne Baird, soprano
Brewer Chamber Orchestra • Rudolph Palmer, conductor
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85568
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NEWPORT CLASSICS CATALOGUE
Dominick Argento / J.S. Bach Robert Baska Amy Beach Benjamin Britten Daniel Catan Luigi Cherubini Gaetano Donizetti Lukas Foss G.F. Handel Joseph Haydn Victor Herbert William Herschel Jacques Ibert Gian Carlo Menotti
Andre Messager Douglas Moore J.P. Rameau Ned Rorem A. Scarlatti Franz Schubert R. Schumann William Grant Still Georg Telemann G. Verdi A. Vivaldi Alec Wilder
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DOMINICK ARGENTO ~ A Water Bird Talk • Six Elizabethan Songs
Manhattan Chamber Orchestra • Richard Auldon Clark, conductor
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85602
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Johann Sebastian BACH
J. S. BACH ~ TENOR ARIAS WITH FLUTE
DAVID GORDON, America’s finest Bach Tenor sings favourite cantata and oratorio arias. includes:- Benedictus - B MINOR MASS, BWV 232 • Presto - G MAJOR TRIO SONATA • Frohe Hirten - CHRISTMAS ORATORIO • Allegro - G MAJOR TRIO SONATA
Emily Newbold, flute • Charlotte Mattax, harpsichord • Loretta O’Sullivan, solo cello
Bethlehem Bach Festival Orchestra • Greg Funfgeld, conductor
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85582
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ROBERT BASKA ~ FOR WINDS
CHAMBER WORKS FOR SOLO WINDS
Alto Sax Sonata
Quintet for Clarinet & Strings
Oboe Sonata
Quintet for Bassoon & Strings
Paquito D’Rivera, alto sax • Pablo Zinger, piano • Paul Gallo, clarinet
Marsha Heller, Oboe • Elizabeth Wright, piano • William Scribner, bassoon
Bronx Arts Ensemble
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85624
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AMY BEACH / WILLIAM MAYER
DISTANT PLAYING FIELDS - 20TH CENTURY VOCAL WORKS
A LOVER’S LAMENT • DISTANT PLAYING FIELDS • WHEN SOUL IS JOINED TO SOUL • MESSAGE • AE FOND KISS • SEA SONG • ENTER ARIEL • NIGHT SONG AT AMALFI • THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS • GOD IS OUR STRONGHOLD
Angelina Réauz / Mary Ellen Callaham, sopranos • Robert Guarino / Christopher Pfund, tenors
Gregg Smith Singers • Gregg smith, conductor
St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble • Scott Wheeler, conductor
Many of the selections here relate to the dimension of distance, whether imposed by time, space, death, or human estrangement, hence the CD’s title "Distant Playing Fields." Both composers are without question romantics, testifying to the staying power of that world-view: no matter how often Romanticism is eclipsed, it stubbornly re-emerges in new guises-here as Post-or Neo-Romanticism.
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85626
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN ~ A CEREMONY OF CAROLS
Benjamin Britten’s classic setting of Old English verses for chorus of women’s voices, soloists and harp – and a collection of other festive carols for chorus, performed by the celebrated Boston Cecilia, Donald teeters, conductor.
A CEREMONY OF CAROLS - Procession • Wolcum Yole! • There is no Rose • That Uonge Chold • Balulalow • As Dew In Aprille • Tis Little Babe • Interlude • In Freezing Winter • Spring Carol • Deo Gracias • Recession
NEW ENGLAND CHRISTMAS HYMNS - Boston • Infant Saviour • Milford
GERMAN CHRISTMAS HYMNS - In Dulci Jubilo • Es ist ein Ros • O Jesulein suss
FRENCH CAROLS - Noel Entranger • Entre le boeuf • Cantique de Noel
SETTINGS OF AN OLD GERMAN CAROL - Resonet in laudibus • Joseph Leiber • Maria Wiegenleid • Stille Nacht
Carol Baum, solo harp • Karol Bennett, soprano • Marylene Altieri, alto
Boston Cecilia – Donald Teeters, conductor
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85619
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RAPPACCINI’S DAUGHTER
"La hija de Rappaccini"
Manhattan School of Music Opera Theatre
Eduardo Diazmunoz, conductor
First complete recording of the 1997 version of the evocative two-act opera in Spanish "La hija de Rappaccini" recorded live at the acclaimed spring 1997 Manhattan School of Music Opera Theatre production.
CAST:
David Alan Marshall: Dr. Rappaccini
Olivia Gorra: Beatriz Rappaccini
Brandon Jovanovich: Giovanni
Julian Rebolledo: Dr. Baglioni
Natalie Levin: Isabella
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85623/2
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Luigi CHERUBINI ~ "MÉDÉE"
Opera in three acts
First performed at the Theatre Feydeau, Paris, March 13, 1797
First complete recording of the original French commemorating the 200th anniversary of Luigi Cherubini’s dramatic masterpiece, with Opera Quodtannis’ cast & period-instrument orchestra based on the Brian Morgan production.
Libretto by Francois-Benoit Hoffmann • Music by Luigi Cherubini
Luigi Cerubini’s (1760-1842) seminal opera, Médée, was first performed in Paris on March 13th, 1797, only six years after Mozart’s Die Zauberflote, more than a decade before Beethoven’s Fidelio and a generation prior to the stage works of Berlioz, Weber, Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini. The work was originally conceived as an opéra-comique, in French, and with spoken dialogue between musical numbers to conform to the specification of the Théatre Feydeau, where Médée was premiered. It is in this form, for the first time on recording (based on Brian Morgan’s heavily stylised production for Opera Quotannis at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Centre, in New York City in March 1997, to commemorate the bicentennial of the opera), that Cerubini’s complete creation was finally restored and given full representation.
Cherubini’s Médée had, of course, been held in high esteem for many years as a complex, compelling stage work, famously noted for the difficulties of its role, the beauties of its orchestration and, most importantly for breaking the confines of eighteenth-century opera into the dramatic, highly charged emotionalism of the nineteenth century
Créon, King of Corinth : David Arnold • Dircé, daughter of Créon : Thais St Julien • Jason, leader of the Argonauts : Carl Halvorson • Médée, wife of Jason : Phyllis Treigle • Néris, slave of Médée : D’Anna Fortunato • Le coriphée : John Ostendorf • Une femme de Dircé : Jayne West • Une autre femme de Dircé : Andrea Matthews
Brewer Chamber Orchestra • Chorus Quotannis • Bart Folse, conductor • Brian Morgan, conductor
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85622/2
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DONIZETTI ~ Il Campanello di notte (The Night Bell)
Gaetano Donizetti’s one-act comic opera (THE NIGHT BELL) is the hilarious tale of a young suitor, determined to win back the hand of the new bride of a wealthy, cranky, town pharmacist - disguises, musical highjinks, gorgeous melodies, and the constant ringing of the pharmacy’s night bell - all in the finest Italian opera buffo style.
Christopher Larkin conducts the Cast & Orchestra of the acclaimed April ‘96 Manhattan School of Music production.
Shon Sims, Enrico • Samuel Hepler, Don Annibale • Madeline Bender, Serafina • Barbara Kokolus, Madame Rosa • James Powell, Spiridione
Manhattan School of Music Opera Theaatre • Christopher Larkin, conductor - Recorded Live
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85608
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LUKAS FOSS ~ The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Folk-Opera based on the Mark Twain Short Story
The First Complete Recording of LUKAS FOSS’ delightful 1950 folk opera (with a reading of excerpts from the MARK TWAIN short story, upon which Jean Karsavina based the libretto) ~ cast and produced by John Ostendorf.
With :- Julianne Baird • Frederick Urrey • Kevin Deas • Peter Castaldi •Geoffrey Friedley • Christopher Arneson • Mark Moliterno.
Manhattan Chamber Orchestra • Richard Auldon Clark, conductor
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85609
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HAYDN ~ CREATION - ORIGINAL 1797 ENGLISH TEXT
Brenda Harris, soprano • Carl Halvorson, tenor • John Cheek, bass • Fairfield County Chorale
Amor Artis Orchestra – PERIOD INSTRUMENTS • Johannes Somary, conductor
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), a devout man, took its composition with utmost reverence: "I was never so religious as during the composition of The Creation" he observed to a friend. "Daily I fell on my knees and asked God for strength." With characteristic humility, he gave full credit for this sublime masterpiece to the Almighty. On hearing a public performance of The Creation in 1808, the enfeebled master was quite overcome: At the glorious C major illumination of the works "and there was light" he exclaimed, "It was not I, but a Power above who created that!" Haydn spent almost two years, 1797 and 1798 working on The Creation. When asked why he was taking so long, he replied "Because I intend it to last for a long time."
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85627/2 (2CD SET)
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Premiere Recording JOSEPH HAYDN
A DELIGHTUL OPERATIC RELEASE LA CANTARINA ("THE DIVA")
(Includes SYMPHONY NO. 1 and an attributed FLUTE CONCERTO)
Brenda Harris • Jon Garrison • D’Anna Fortunato • Joyce Guyer
Emily Newbold, flute
The Palmer Chamber Orchestra • Rudolf Palmer, conductor
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85595
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VICTOR HERBERT ~ EILEEN
ROMANTIC COMIC OPERA IN THREE ACTS (1917)
The first recording of the 1917 romantic comic opera, set in 19th century Ireland, in a reconstruction & realization by Quade Winter and James Stuart – from live performances at the Ohio Light Opera Company, in a two-CD set produced by John Ostendorf
Ohio Light Opera-Resident Professional Company of the College of Wooster • James Stuart, artistic director
EILEEN On January 1st, 1917 at Cleveland’s Colonial Theatre, Victor Herbert conducted the matinee and evening performances of his new operetta Hearts of Erin, which, following the premiere was re-titled Eileen. Hearts of Erin arrived at a time in America when live theatre and the movies were competing for the public’s attention. After a tour, Eileen opened at New York’s Schubert Theatre on March 19th, with the composer again conducting. The New York Times reviewer observed that the score was in Herbert’s "best vein", its Irish flavour contributing to much of its charm. Eileen ran for 54 performances until the end of the 1917 Broadway season. A tour began in Hartford in September and ended in Drayton on January 16th, 1918, when a fire in the Victoria Theatre destroyed scenery, costumes and instruments.
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85615/2 (2CD SET)
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VICTOR HERBERT ~ "THINE ALONE"
Songs and Orchestral Works
A warm, wonderful and sentimental collection of works and songs by the "Irish Wagner"
Irish Rhapsody • When You’re Away • Romany Life • Panamerican • Kiss Me Again • The Moon Will Help You Out • Thine Alone • The President’s March • Butterfly Waltz • Moonbeams - A Serenade • Cannibal Dance • The World’s Progress
The Manhattan Chamber Orchestra • Richard Auldon Clark, conductor • Magic Circle Opera Ensemble • Andrea Matthews, soprano
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85572
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MUSIC OF WILLIAM HERSCHEL
Music by the Father of Modern Astronomy
First recording of orchestral chamber works by the celebrated 18th-century composer/astronomer
WILLIAM HERSCHEL
OBOE CONCERTO in C major - Richard Woodhams, solo oboe
CHAMBER SYMPHONY in F major
OBOE CONCERTO in & E-flat major -Richard Woodhams, solo oboe
JOSEPH HAYDN : Symphony No. 23
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85612
JACQUES IBERT
CONCERTINO DA CAMERA -Allegro con moto • Larghetto-Animato molto
CONCERTO FOR CELLO AND WIND INSTRUMENTS -Pastorale • Romance • Gigue
DIVERTISSEMENT -Introduction • Cortège • Nocturne • Valse • Parade • Finale
SYMPHONIE CONCERTANTE FOR OBOE AND STRING ORCHESTRA
Allegro con moto • Adagio, ma non troppe • Allegro brillante
Gary Louie, saxophone • Humbert Lucarelli, oboe • Nathaniel Rosen, cello
Manhattan Chamber Orchestra • Richard Aulden Clark, conductor
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85598
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JACQUES IBERT ~ VIVE IBERT!
While Jacques Ibert is probably best known for his delightful Divertissements, he composed countless works for radio, stage, film, as well as for the concert hall. The talented musicians of the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Richard Auldon Clark present some of these hidden masterpieces - several of which receive their digital premieres on this CD.
Includes:-"Elizabethan Suite" • "Concerto for Flute and Orchestra" • "Suite Symphonique "Paris" • "Capriccio for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, String Quartet and Harp"
Manhattan Chamber Orchestra
Richard Aulden Clark, conductor
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85531
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THE UNICORN, THE GORGON & THE MANTICORE
Virgil THOMPSON
PARSONS WEEMS & THE CHERRY TREE
Two Musical Fables : Menoti’s fancifil choral masterwork set in medieval times, and Virgil Thompson’s ballet score Parson Weems & The Cherry Tree – featuring the superb Boston Cecilia Chorus & Chamber Ensemble
Virgil THOMPSON
Parsons Weems & The Cherry Tree
Ballet by Erick Hawkins
Boston Cecilia Chorus & Chamber Ensemble
Donald Teeters, conductor
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85621
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Gian Carlo MENOTTI
THE CONSUL
FIRST COMPLETE RECORDING
Berkshire Opera Company
Camerata New York Orchestra • Joel Revzen - Conductor
Includes libretto and programme notes.
The Consul, Menotti's finest lyric composition, was first performed in the Spring of 1950 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre and was awarded both Pulitzer Prize for Music and Drama Critics Awards. The Consul is a Kafka-like drama of political intrigue, desperate love and mind numbing frustration - all the ingredients necessary for a successful opera.. The Iron Curtain may have fallen but oppression and fascist politics have not disappeared from our world and this work speaks to many issues still sadly familiar at the end of this century.
Catalogue Number: NPD 85645/2 (2CD SET)
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Gian Carlo MENOTTI
HELP, HELP, THE GLOBOLINKS!
First recording of the space-age comic opera • Madison Opera • John Demain, conductor
Cast: Rachel Joselson – Mme Euterpova • Erin Windle – Emily • Paul Radulescu – Dr Stone • David Small – Tony • Mark Schmandt – Timothy • Terry Kiss Frank – Miss Newkirk • Bert Adams – Mr Lavender-Gas • Kenneth Church – Dr Turtlespit.
Gian Carlo Menotti’s delightful Space-Age comic opera. John Demain leads Madison Opera’s Spring 1998 production in the work’s first recording produced by Joihn Ostendorf. The story begins with the arrival of unknown flying objects from another planet and creatures identified so far, only as Globolinks. It turns out that Globolinks are frightened of music – the moral of the story appears to be that if we keep music in our hearts we have nothing to fear. A delightful romp through Menotti’s music.
Catalogue Number: NPD 85633
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André MESSAGER ~ VERONIQUE
FRENCH COMIC OPERA
J. Lynn Thompson, conductor • James Stuart, Artistic Director
Charles Kondek, English Version
The first recording of the 1898 romantic French comic opera, set in 19th century Paris, performed in a delectable new English version by Charles Kondek – from live performances at the Ohio Light Opera Company, in a two-CD set produced by John Ostendorf.
PLOT: The story Véronique focuses on an impoverished aristocrat who is forced to marry. The viscount Florestan de Valaincourt, to avoid being sent to prison for debt, has become engaged to a young lady be has never seen, a Hélène de Solanges. For her part, Hélène is determined to win his heart, in cahoots with her aristocratic, but fun-loving, aunt Emerance, the two disguise themselves as shop assistants – Veronique and Estelle- to the most celebrated florist in Paris……………….
Catalogue No.: NPD 85635/2
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Douglas MOORE ~ THE BALLAD OF BABY DOE
First New Recording in nearly 40 years -
from the stage where the opera was premiered
Cast & orchestra of CENTRAL CITY OPERA • John Moriarty, conductor
FIRST ALL-DIGITAL RECORDING
Like many American operas, Douglas Moore’s The Ballad of Baby Doe contains both local interest and the anecdotal, but it has other qualities which have lifted it above the commonplace and which have won it a place in the repertoire and in opera history. Using the story of Tabors as a springboard, the opera deals with universal truths and values. It is a story of undying love (Baby’s), suffocating pride (Agusta’s) and hubris punished by the gods (Horace’s). It was the genius of Moore to create a musical score, touching in its simplicity, which provides colour, a feeling of period and soaring lyricism
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85593/2 (2CD SET)
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DOUGLAS MOORE ~ THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER
Dramatic one act opera of love, possession and diabolical trickery performed by the acclaimed Lyric Opera of Kansas City in a 1995 production.
Lyric Opera of Kansas City
Russell Patterson, conductor
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85585
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Concert Royal Orchestra and Chorus
LE BERGER FIDÈLE
LA DANSE
Howard Crook, tenor • Anna Monoyios, soprano
Christine Brandes, soprano • Nathaniel Watson, bass-baritone
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85555
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NED ROREM ~ "MISS JULIE"
WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING OF THE OPERA "MISS JULIE"
Recorded Live - Manhattan School of Music Opera Theatre - David Gilbert, conductor
"Recorded Live,...a good conservatoire production with some fine solo voices, that at last allows this corner of the American operatic repertoire to be explored".GRAMOPHONE MAY 1996
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85605/2
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NED ROREM ~ TWO ONE-ACT OPERAS
A CHILDHOOD MIRACLE - (Libretto Elliott Stein)
THREE SISTERS WHO ARE NOT SISTERS - (Libretto Gertrude Stein)
First Recording of the two whimsical one-act operas by Ned Rorem, America’s foremost living composer for the voice.
Magic Circle Opera Orchestra & Soloists
Andrea Matthews, soprano • Frederick Urrey, tenor
Ray Evans Harrell, conductor
CATALOGUE NO. NPD 85594
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Alessandro SCARLATTI ~ "ISHMAEL"
The First Recording of Alessandro Scarlatti’s dramatic 1683 Old Testament score
A cast of America’s finest Early Music singers & period instrumentalists - assembled by John Ostendorf and conductor Rudolph Palmer - performs the dramatic Italian opera, with two delightful Scarlatti recorder sonatas.
Julianne Baird • Brenda Harris • D’Anna Fortunato • Erie Ellis • Elissa Berardi
Edward Brewer, harpsichord • Louise Schulman, violin/leader
Brewer Baroque Chamber Orchestra • Rudolph Palmer, conductor • Original Instruments
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85558/2
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Franz SCHUBERT ~ WINTERREISE
Schubert’s original 1827 version of the Wilhelm Muller poem cycle, sung by soprano Julianne Baird with fortepianist Andrew Willis
Winterreise, D911
Moments Musicaux, D 780
Julianne Baird, soprano • Andrew Willis, fortepiano
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85614
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PIANO WORKS BY ROBERT SCHUMANN
ABEGG VARIATIONS, OP. 1 • PAPILLIONS, OP. 2 •
PAGANINI STUDIES,OP. 3 • INTERMEZZI, OP. 4
John Van Buskirk, fortepiano
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85611
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WILLIAM GRANT STILL ~ THE AMERICAN SCENE
Manhattan Chamber Orchestra
includes:- The American Scene : The Southwest • From the Hearts of Women • Mother and Child • The American Scene : The Far West • The Citadel • Phantom Chapel • Golden Days • Serenade • The American Scene : The East
Margaret Astrup, soprano
Richard Auldon Clark, conductor
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85596
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TELEMANN ~ "PIMPINONE"
Another triumph for Julianne Baird and John Ostendorf in Telemann’s comic opera in three acts.
John Ostendorf, Pimpinone
Julianne Baird, Vespetta
Baroque Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Original Instruments
CATALOGUE NO.: NCD 60117
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VERDI : ARIAS
LA FORZA DEL DESTINO – Pace, pace, mio dio • ERNANI - Ernani, involami • AIDA - O patria mia • MACBETH - Act I Prelude • MACBETH - Una macchia
Darcy Dunn, soprano - Peter Castaldi, baritone • LA FORZA DEL DESTINO – Madre pietosa Manhattan Chamber Chorus • LA TRAVIATA - Act I Prelude • LA TRAVIATA - Addio del passato • IL TROVATORE - Tacea la notte Mary Polis, mezzo-soprano • UN BALLO IN MASCHERA – Morró, ma prima in grazio
Christine Weidinger, soprano
Manhattan Chamber Orchestra • Richard Auldon Clark, conductor
WITH ASSISTING ARTISTS - Darcy Dunn, soprano • Mary Polis, Mezzo-soprano • Peter Castaldi, baritone
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85581
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VIVALDI ~ Magnificat & Gloria
Antonio Vivaldi’s choral masterpieces : Gloria and Magnificat, in the rarely heard 1734 Venice version, with the Concerto for Two Trumpets
MAGNIFICAT, RV 611, Venice Version
CONCERTO IN C MAJOR for 2 trumpets, Op.46/1
GLORIA, RV 589
Julianne Baird, soprano • Lorie Gratis, mezzo-soprano • Georgeta Stoleriu
AMA DEUS chorus and period instrument ensemble
Valentin Radu, conductor
Bronwyn Fix-Keller, harpsichord
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85617
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ALEC WILDER (1907-1980)
Of all the musical genres, none if more distinct than the one held by Alec Wilder – an unconventional cocktail of jazz, spoken word and American popular song. Few composers have the ability to express themselves so prolifically in forms ranging from brass quintets to operas and ballets. As a composer, Wilder was likened to many of the more notables of the time, including Gershwin, and Villa-Lobos. Born on February 16th, 1907, Alexander Lafayette Chew Wilder studied music only briefly. As a composer, he was largely self taught. In the early years of his career he lived in NYC where he made the legendary Algonoquin Hotel his home. It was Frank Sinatra who was responsible for bringing Wilder’s music to a wider and more diverse audience. As a fan and supporter, he engineered a recording of Wilder’s solo wind works with strings with Columbia in 1945. The two became life-long friends and Sinatra went to perform many of Wilder’s popular songs. It was Wilder’s intimacy with both classical and jazz musicians as well as notable singers that made him such an interesting composer. His career involved such names as Stan Getz, Cab Calloway, Johnny Mercer and others and he was greatly admired by Peggy Lee, Tony Bennett and Mabel Mercer. Not least of all was Wilder’s love of children. "A Child’s Introduction to the Orchestra," as well as the song book "Lullabies and Night Songs," illustrated by Maurice Sendak attest to the versatility of his talent.
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85630
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FOR THE FRIENDS OF ALEC WILDER ~ Orchestral works by Alec Wilder
Alexander Lafayette Chew Wilder was American to the core - from his fondness for trains and American folk song to his devotion to jazz, popular music and the many great artists who performed such music. Few composers in the modern age, apart from Bernstein perhaps, have proved to be so articulate in such a wide range of styles as Wilder.
Works on this cd include pieces dedicated to Zoot Sims, Mitch Miller and Julius Baker. The five works which Frank Sinatra conducted in 1946
Humbert Lucarelli, oboe • Eugenia Zukerman, flute • Gary Louie, tenor saxophone • Kenneth Pasmanick, bassoon
The Manhattan Chamber Orchestra • Richard Auldon Clark, conductor
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85570
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NEWPORT CLASSICS CATALOGUE
Miscellaneous • Piano • Novelties • Soundtracks
New Age • Big Band • Americana etc.
KLEZMER NUTCRACKER SHIRIM
The CD notes say that KLEZMER music is soulful and rocking dance music of the Eastern European Jews. NUTCRACKER is the soulful and rocking ballet of Russian composer Peter Tchaikovsky. This CD contains17 tracks full of fun and surprises for those not familiar with Klezmer and the most unusual versions of well known pieces of classical music. These pieces were arranged for an annual December 25th concerts which have become a tradition in Boston. The concerts take place in the heart of the Boston area's Jewish community. Many of the classical pieces on this CD have strong folk roots. Here are Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Satie, Mahler, Chopin as you have never heard them before.
Instrumental Ensemble consists of:
Clarinet - Glenn Dickson • Trombone - David Harris • Piano and accordion - Michael McLaughlin • Banjo - Pete Fitzpatrick •Drums - Eric Rosenthal
Tuba - John Manning & Jim Gray
Catalogue No.: NPD 85640
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HORNSMOKE
Music of Peter Schickele performed by The Chestnut Brass Company and the Composer
"Hornsmoke" (A Horse Opera for Brass Quintet)
Peter Schickele, composer, musician, author, satirist is a prolific composer having written over 100 works for symphony orchestras, choral groups, chamber ensembles, voice, the cinema and television. Schickele is acknowledged as one of the great satirists of the 20th Century and the music on this CD bears testimony to that title. "Hornsmoke" (A Horse Opera for Brass Quintet) is an ‘opera’ without voice in which the characters play to each other rather than sing. It has all the characters and characteristics of all the ‘Westerns’ we have ever seen – tongue in cheek of course!
Brass Calendar
The dates on this calendar reflect American events but New Year’s Day, Valentine’s Day, Halloween are all dates which ‘travel’ well and anyone who has filled in their own income tax form will recognise the mounting panic and confusion which ‘Income tax Day’ conveys.
This is a great CD – lots of fun, lively and just what we need to brighten up the dark days of January.
Catalogue No.: NCD 85638
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FANTASY
John Nauman - piano
Liszt - Tarantella - Au bord d'une source - Reminiscences 0f Norma (Bellini)
Scriabin - Fantasy in B minor Opus 28 - Sonata no 4 in FT Opus 30
Wagner / Liszt - Isolde's Liebestod
Schumann / Liszt -Widmung
First track launches the listener into Liszt's sparkling Tarantella which immediately establishes Nauman as a virtuoso artist. Track 2 is the compelling and dramatic Fantasy in B min by Scriabin written to make peace with his close friend Balaieff. Track 3 is Liszt's magical Au bord d'une source…….the CD ends with the beautiful and evocative Widmung (Schumann / Liszt).
Catalogue No.: NPD 85637
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CHARLES TOMLINSON GRIFFES
GODDESS OF THE MOON
Exotic Chamber Music based on Japanese, Druid and Indian Themes,
Perspectives Ensemble
The ensemble comprises:Celeste è Harp è Cello è Bass è Tom-tom è Horn è Clarinet è Oboe è Flute Viola è Clarinet è Piano è Violin
Three Sketches on Indian Themes • Sonata For Piano • The Kairn of Koridwen • Three Japanese Melodies ~ First recordings
When Griffes was born in New York in 1884 Richard Wagner had just died, Brahms was alive and well in Vienna, R Strauss was 20 years old, Schoenberg was only 2,Debussy was 22 and Scriabin a 12 year old youth in Russia. This puts Griffe into a musical context. He may well have been influenced by these composers but, having been briefly influenced by the German Romantic tradition he moved toward Impressionism and then found a congenial source of material in the music of the Orient as well as the poetry of the Scottish-Celtic writer Fiona MacLeod and finally into the realm of absolute music, exhibiting a stark, dissonant style. (from the CD booklet)
Griffes’ music is wholly accessible. The soaring violin in the second movement of his Three Sketches on Indian Themes is reminiscent of Vaughan Williams’ ‘Lark Ascending’. It is hauntingly beautiful with little hint of the dissonant style of the absolute music of his later period. The third movement of this piece has a primitive energy – again hauntingly beautiful tunes are to be found in this movement. It is well worth spending time listening to this music – the reward is finding something that you will go back to again and again.
Catalogue Number: NPD 85634
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CENTERING - THE MUSIC OF EARLE BROWN
The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
Stephen I. Mosko, Music Director • Stephen I. Mosko and Earle Brown, conductors • Joan La Barbara, mezzo-soprano • Roy Malan, Violin
Centering (1973) for solo violin and flute, clarinet, bassoon, french horn, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola, cello and piano
Roy Malan, violin • Earle Brown, conductor
Windsor Jambs (1980) for voice, flute, bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano/celeste and percussion
Joan La Barbara, mezzo-soprano • Earle Brown, conductor
Tracking Pierrot (1992) for flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, cello, piano, vibraphone and marimba
Stephen I. Mosko – Conductor
Event: Synergy (1967-68) for two ensembles:
a) Flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon and string quartet.
b) Flute, oboe, E flat and B flat clarinet, bassoon and string quartet.
Stephen I. Mosko and Earle Brown, conductors
Catalogue No.: NPD 85631
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FASCINATING RHYTHMS
William Noll Jazz Orchestra
Big Band Favourites conducted by William Noll
IT DON’T MEAN A THING • CARAVAN • PUTTIN’ ON THE RITZ • MACK THE KNIFE • FASCINATING RHYTHMS • GEORGIA ON MY MIND • STARDUST • ST. LOUIS BLUES MARCH • BOOGIE WOOGIE BUGLE • ROUTE 66 • KANSAS CITY • GETTING SENTIMENTAL • BUT BEAUTIFUL • NEED A LITTLE CHRISTMAS
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85618
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THE ALL-AMERICAN MUSIC OF IRVING BERLIN
Dwight Thomas, Paramount Wurlitzer Organ
America’s finest theatre organist and the most wonderful instrument of its kind team up with the heartfelt, enthusiastic rendition of songs by Berlin.
Alexander’s Ragtime Band • Let’s Face The Music • This Is The Army • Change Partners • Always • Heat Wave • Annie Get Your Gun • Puttin’ on the Ritz • With You • Me • Top Hat Medley • Slummin’ on Park Avenue • Russian Lullaby • Give Me Your Tired/God Bless America
CATALOGUE NO.: NCD 60078
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ON THE BOARDWALK
THE PARAGON RAGTIME ORCHESTRA
Music from the Arthur Pryor Orchestra Collection
Chatterbox Rag • The Memphis Blues • George M. Cohan Medley • Paragon Rag • Heart of America • Made in America • In the Hills of Old Kentucky Medley • Aggravation Rag • Slippery Hank • On the Level You’re a Little Devil • An Operatic Nightmare : Desecration Rag No. 2 • Snookums Rag • Mr. Black Man • Kentucky Home • That Epidemic Rag! • Under the Mellow Arabian Moon • That Eccentric Rag • Black and White Rag • "Old Timers" Waltz Medley • The St. Louis Rag • On Jersey Shore • Chatterbox Rag
CATALOGUE NO.: NCD 60039
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THE WHISTLER AND HIS DOG
THE PARAGON RAGTIME ORCHESTRA
More music from the Arthur Pryor Orchestra Collection
Dynamite Rag • Bring Me Back my Lovin’ Honey Boy • Aviation Rag • Smiles • Pine Apple Rag • Triplets • The Love Kiss • La Belle Parisienne • The Whistler and His Dog • Banana Peel Rag • A Symphonic Nightmare : Desecration Rag No. 1 • The Jogo Blues • The Winter Garden Rag • Black Rock • Oh You Drummer! • I Wonder Whether I’ve Loved You All My Life? • Grizzly Bear Rag • The Junk Man Rag • Old Chestnuts • Gold Dust Twins Rag
Rick Benjamin, Director
CATALOGUE NO.: NCD 60069
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ZONE 5 ~ PAULA HATCHER, flute
Features the Paula Hatcher Jazz Quintet, with Ashton Fletcher, Bill Biesecker, Willie Barber and guest Charles Covington
CATALOGUE NO.: NCD 60049
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CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85537
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MICRO CLASSICS - THE CLASSIC BUSKERS
Arrangements and Derangements of Some of the World’s Most Beloved Melodies
Michael Copley • Ian Moore
22 tracks include : Overture to The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart) • Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod) • Badinerie (Bach) • The Elephant (Saint-Säens) • Finale from Violin Concerto (Tchaikovsky)
CATALOGUE NO.: NPD 85559
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