- Works. Selections
- Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981.
- Don Mills, Ont., Canada : West Hill Radio Archives, p2011.
- Description
- Music recording — 8 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 CD-ROM (PDF files, ill., ports. ; 4 3/4 in.)
- Summary
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- CD 1. Vanessa : op. 32. Acts I-III (1:18:16)
- CD 2. Vanessa : op. 32. Act IV (Eleanor Steber, Nicolai Gedda, Rosalind Elias, Regina Resnik, Giorgio Tozzi, George Cehanovsky ; Metropolitan Opera ; Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor) (41:00) ; Medea : op. 23, orchestral suite (New Symphony Orchestra of London ; Samuel Barber, conductor) (25:00) ; Medea's meditation and dance of vengeance : op. 23a (New York Philharmonic ; Mitropoulos, conductor) (12:53)
- CD 3. Overture to the school for scandal : op. 5 (Janssen Symphony Orchestra of Los Angeles ; Werner Janssen, conductor) (8:13) ; Symphony in one movement : op. 9 : (original version) (NBC Symphony Orchestra ; Artur Rodzinski, conductor) (21:00) ; Symphony in one movement : op. 9 : (original, revised versions) (New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter, conductor) (20:00) ; Adagio for strings : op. 11 (NBC Symphony Orchestra ; Arturo Toscanini, conductor) (7:05) ; Essay no. 1, op. 12 (NBC Symphony Orchestra ; Toscanini, conductor) (8:01) ; Essay no. 2, op. 17 (New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra ; Bruno Walter, conductor) (11:08) ; Commando march (Boston Symphony Orchestra ; Serge Koussevitzky, conductor) (3:48)
- CD 4. Symphony no. 2 : ("Flight symphony") : op. 19 (original version) (Boston Symphony Orchestra ; Koussevitzky, conductor) (27:00) ; Symphony no. 2 : ("Flight symphony") : op. 19 (revised version) (New Symphony Orchestra of London ; Barber, conductor) (27:00) ; Symphony no. 2 : ("Flight symphony") : op. 19 (revised version, rehearsal) (Boston Symphony Orchestra ; Barber, conductor ) (25:37)
- CD 5. Die natali : op. 37 (Boston Symphony Orchestra ; Charles Munch, conductor) (19:38) ; Prayers of Kierkegaard : op. 30 (Leontyne Price, soprano ; Jean Kraft, mezzo-soprano ; Edward Munro, tenor ; Boston Symphony Orchestra ; Boston Cecilia Society Chorus ; Munch, conductor) (17:00) ; Concerto for violin and orchestra, op. 14 : (original version) (Albert Spalding, violin ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Eugene Ormandy, conductor) (23:00)
- CD 6. Concerto for violin and orchestra, op. 14 : (revised version) (Ruth Posselt, violin ; Boston Symphony Orchestra ; Koussevitzky, conductor) (25:00) ; Capricorn concerto : op. 21 (Julius Baker, flute ; Mitchell Miller, oboe ; Harry Freistadt, trumpet ; CBS Orchestra ; Barber, conductor) (14:00) ; Concerto for violoncello and orchestra, op. 22 (Zara Nelsova, violoncello ; New Symphony Orchestra of London ; Barber, conductor) (28:00)
- CD 7. Sonata for violoncello and piano, op. 6 (Orlando Cole, violoncello ; Vladimir Sokoloff, piano) (20:00) ; String quartet in B minor, op. 11 (Curtis Quartet) (22:00) ; Excursions : op. 20 (Rudolf Firkusny, piano) (11:00) ; Souvenirs : op. 28 (Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale, piano) (17:00)
- CD 8. Dover Beach : op. 3 (Samuel Barber, baritone ; Curtis String Quartet) (7:50) ; Knoxville, summer of 1915 : op. 24 (original version) (Eileen Farrell, soprano ; CBS Symphony Orchestra ; Bernard Herrmann, conductor) (16:55) ; Knoxville, summer of 1915 : op. 24 (revised version) (Eleanor Steber, soprano ; Edward [i.e., Edwin] Biltcliffe, piano) (15:24) ; Knoxville, summer of 1915 : op. 24 (Leontyne Price, soprano ; New York Philharmonic ; Thomas Schippers, conductor) (14:38) ; Orchestrated songs. Sure on this shining night : op. 13, no. 3 (2:10) ; Nocturne, op. 13, no. 4 (3:37) ; I hear an army : op. 10, no. 3 (2:28) (Jennie Tourel, mezzo-soprano ; CBS Orchestra ; Barber, conductor) ; Statement by Gian Carlo Menotti, Mar. 9, 1980 (5:58) ; Interview with Samuel Barber by James Fassett, Mar. 16, 1958 (9:48)
- CD 9, CD-ROM. Notes on the performances in English by Barbara B, Heyman and in French by Pierre Brevignon, 2011 WHRA CD catalog.
- Online
Music Library
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MCD 24499 | Unknown |