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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
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Gershwin - Porgy and Bess / White · Haymon · Blackwell · Baker · LPO · Sir Simon Rattle
: essential recording:An uncut Porgy & Bess may well be too long in the theater. On CD, though, you can play one act at a time, letting Gershwin's wide-eyed, inexhaustibly inventive score run its course at leisure in the comforts of your rumpus room. Some listeners might find Sir Simon Rattle's tempos on the draggy side, but he's got Gershwin's syncopated idiom down cold. Similarly, the singers fuse Gershwin's prodigious musical demands with effortless, characterful diction more succesfully than in other recordings, abetted by engineering that is both atmospheric and richly ...
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Thomas & Beulah / Rita Dove and Amnon Wolman
: essential recording:An uncut Porgy & Bess may well be too long in the theater. On CD, though, you can play one act at a time, letting Gershwin's wide-eyed, inexhaustibly inventive score run its course at leisure in the comforts of your rumpus room. Some listeners might find Sir Simon Rattle's tempos on the draggy side, but he's got Gershwin's syncopated idiom down cold. Similarly, the singers fuse Gershwin's prodigious musical demands with effortless, characterful diction more succesfully than in other recordings, abetted by engineering that is both atmospheric and richly ...
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Tippett: A Child of our Time
from: Chandos
: :This, one of Tippett's earliest acknowledged works, is one of his most popular. The music relates the true story of a young German Jew who, terrified and enraged at the treatment of his mother, kills a Nazi officer and touches off a violent pogrom. Tippett adopts the structure of Bach's Passions, in which arias alternate with choruses and Lutheran hymns (chorales), although in place of the chorales Tippett substitutes magnificently moving Negro spirituals. 'A Child of our Time' offers music of rage, poignancy, and deep compassion. As the title itself implies, ...
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Mendelssohn: Symphonies
from: Chandos
: :This, one of Tippett's earliest acknowledged works, is one of his most popular. The music relates the true story of a young German Jew who, terrified and enraged at the treatment of his mother, kills a Nazi officer and touches off a violent pogrom. Tippett adopts the structure of Bach's Passions, in which arias alternate with choruses and Lutheran hymns (chorales), although in place of the chorales Tippett substitutes magnificently moving Negro spirituals. 'A Child of our Time' offers music of rage, poignancy, and deep compassion. As the title itself implies, ...
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Elektra (Dig)
: :This, one of Tippett's earliest acknowledged works, is one of his most popular. The music relates the true story of a young German Jew who, terrified and enraged at the treatment of his mother, kills a Nazi officer and touches off a violent pogrom. Tippett adopts the structure of Bach's Passions, in which arias alternate with choruses and Lutheran hymns (chorales), although in place of the chorales Tippett substitutes magnificently moving Negro spirituals. 'A Child of our Time' offers music of rage, poignancy, and deep compassion. As the title itself implies, ...
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Centenary Edition 1988-1997, Vol. 10
from: Capitol
: :This, one of Tippett's earliest acknowledged works, is one of his most popular. The music relates the true story of a young German Jew who, terrified and enraged at the treatment of his mother, kills a Nazi officer and touches off a violent pogrom. Tippett adopts the structure of Bach's Passions, in which arias alternate with choruses and Lutheran hymns (chorales), although in place of the chorales Tippett substitutes magnificently moving Negro spirituals. 'A Child of our Time' offers music of rage, poignancy, and deep compassion. As the title itself implies, ...
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Where the Music Comes From
from: Polygram Records
: :This, one of Tippett's earliest acknowledged works, is one of his most popular. The music relates the true story of a young German Jew who, terrified and enraged at the treatment of his mother, kills a Nazi officer and touches off a violent pogrom. Tippett adopts the structure of Bach's Passions, in which arias alternate with choruses and Lutheran hymns (chorales), although in place of the chorales Tippett substitutes magnificently moving Negro spirituals. 'A Child of our Time' offers music of rage, poignancy, and deep compassion. As the title itself implies, ...
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Puccini - La bohème / Haymon · O'Neill · Opie · McLaughlin · A. Miles · Dazeley · Shore · PO · Parry
: :A thoughtful ensemble cast stars in this tender, introspective reading of La Bohème, and maestro David Parry ekes all of the emotionalism out of the opera's sadder moments. One might ask for more rambunctious comedy in the light scenes, especially those featuring Musetta--although Marie McLaughlin certainly sings beautifully enough--but then again, we might not be able to understand the words as well if the cast were allowed to run free. As it stands, Dennis O'Neill is an ardent Rodolfo missing only some sheer loveliness of sound, Cynthia Haymon's Mimi is handsomely ...
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Donzetti: Don Pasquale
from: Chandos
: :A thoughtful ensemble cast stars in this tender, introspective reading of La Bohème, and maestro David Parry ekes all of the emotionalism out of the opera's sadder moments. One might ask for more rambunctious comedy in the light scenes, especially those featuring Musetta--although Marie McLaughlin certainly sings beautifully enough--but then again, we might not be able to understand the words as well if the cast were allowed to run free. As it stands, Dennis O'Neill is an ardent Rodolfo missing only some sheer loveliness of sound, Cynthia Haymon's Mimi is handsomely ...
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