NEWPORT CLASSIC - RECENT RELEASES
This is a scrolling list, not in any particular order.  Here you will find most of the major New Releases on the Newport Classic label since MID 2000.  Last revised April 2002.

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NPD 85655/2

Emerich Kalman       THE BAYADERE (2CD)

The first recording of the 1921 romantic comic opera - the seduction of a worldly Parisian actress by an exotic Indian Prince, in a new English version by James Stuart.

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NPD 85661/2

Johann Strauss          A NIGHT IN VENICE (2CD)

Johann Strauss opera set in 18th century Venice in a new English translation by James Stuart.

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NPD 85665/2

Lionel Monckton        THE ARCADIANS (2CD)

The first recording of Lionel Monckton’s comic opera, set in idyllic Arcady and posh, snooty London - featuring tuneful and bawdy Edwardian melodies.

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NPD 85675/2

Gilbert & Sullivan       PRINCESS IDA (2CD)

Based on Tennyson’s satire and featuring some of Sullivan’s most gorgeous melodies, this is the first complete recording on CD, recorded live in 1999.

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NPD 85670

FRANK MARTIN - LE VIN HERBE (2CD)

Based on the Tristan and Isolde legend.

I Cantori di New York, cond. Mark Shapiro

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NPD 85654

SWEETHEARTS

Favourites from operettas by Sigmund Romberg and Victor Herbert, made famous by Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, performed by the husband and wife team of Elizabeth Futra, soprano and Steven White, baritone. Recorded on stage at New York’s historic Town Hall, with Robert Twten at the piano and the Rudolph Palmer Chamber Choir.DAVID

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NCD 60153

NICOLAS FLAGELLO - THE PIPER OF HAMELIN
Children's Opera

Manhattan School of Music, cond. J. Strasser  (Narration by Bob McGrath)

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NPD 85646

GLORIOUS HANDEL

A further selection of Handel Arias sung by Julianne Baird

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NPD 85652

FANNY MENDELSSOHN - LIEDER
Songs and "songs without words" for voice and fortepiano

Julianne Baird, soprano;  Keith Weber, fortepiano

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NPD 85641

BERNSTIEN - TROUBLE IN TAHITI

Manhattan School of Music Opera Theatre, cond. Glen Cortese

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NPD 85657

NED ROREM "SUN"   -   First recording
Manhattan School of Music Opera Theatre, cond. Glen Cortese
NED ROREM STRING QUARTET #3
Mendelssohn String Quartet

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NPD 85663

NED ROREM - CHAMBER MUSIC
"END OF SUMMER";  "WAR SCENES";  "DAY"

From the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival

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NPD 85656

MICHAEL COHEN - I REMEMBER
Song cycle based on the Diary of Anne Frank - First recording

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NPD 85660

JOHN DAVIS PLAYS BLIND TOM
First Commercial Recording of a selection of works by the Georgia slave Tom Bethune,
one of the most famous and controversial performing pianists of the late 19th Century.
This CD reveals  that Blind Tom, treated then as a kind of "freak", was not simply a mimic
but was capable of creating works comparable with those of Gottschalk or Joplin.

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NPD 85640

SHIRIM - KLEZMER NUTCRACKER
The Nutcracker Suite and other classical compositions arranged for Klezmer Band

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NPD 85653

SHIRIM - OY IT'S GOOD
Traditional Jewish Songs (plus some originals) arranged for Klezmer Band.
Music by the group SHIRIM has been used by Woody Allen in "Deconstructing Harry".

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