Samuel Barber

(1910-81)

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Barber - Violin Concerto

Barber - Violin Concerto


Barber:

Violin Concerto, Op. 14

Itzhak Perlman (violin)

Bernstein:

Serenade (after Plato's 'Symposium')

Foss:

Three American Pieces


Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa

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Samuel Barber

Samuel Barber


Barber:

Adagio for Strings, Op. 11

Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24

Barbara Hendricks

Violin Concerto, Op. 14

Overture to The School for Scandal, Op. 5

First Essay for Orchestra Op. 12

Medea's Dance of Vengeance, Op.32a


London Symphony Orchestra & Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin & Michael Tilson Thomas

Samuel Barber (1910-1981) is best-known today for his Adagio for Strings, which was originally written as the slow movement for an early string quartet, and has become one of most played pieces of classical music. The Adagio was first perfomed in its orchestral form by Toscanini, with the Essay for Orchestra in the same concert. These works are typical of Barber's output, being overtly European in outlook and language.Barber composed music in most genres: two symphonies; concertos for piano, cello and violin, two grand operas; ballets; choral works; chamber music and a great number of songs. This selection of works includes the beautifully reflective Knoxville: Summer 1915, written to a sensitive text from James Agee's unfinished novel A Death in the Family. Also included is the Violin Concerto with it's lovely slow movement and the Overture to a School for Scandal, which was the first of Barber's works to be performed by a major orchestra.

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The American Virtuoso

The American Virtuoso


Barber:

Nocturne, Op. 33

Ballade Op. 46

Piano Sonata, Op. 26

Glass, P:

Piano Concerto No. 2, After Lewis and Clark

Tower:

From No Longer Very Clear


Paul Barnes (piano)

American pianist Paul Barnes performs his own solo transcription of Philip Glass’s Piano Concerto No 2 in a virtuosic recital devoted to US composers. Besides this premiere, he plays the landmark 1950 Sonata for piano and the haunting Ballade and Nocturne by Samuel Barber, and two short colourful pieces from Joan Tower’s No Longer Very Clear

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Michael Sheppard

Michael Sheppard


Barber:

The Daisies

arranged Sheppard

St. Ita's Vision

arranged Sheppard

Nocturne, Op. 33

arranged Sheppard

Bolcom:

Graceful Ghost

Corigliano:

Etude Fantasy

Crumb:

Dream Images

Rodgers:

The Carousel Waltz

arranged Hough

My Favorite Things

arranged Hough

Wild:

Porgy and Bess Fantasy


Michael Sheppard (piano)

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Barber - Songs

Barber - Songs


Barber:

There's Nae Lark

Beggar's Song

In the Dark Pinewood

Bessie Bobtail

Hermit Songs, Op. 29

Rain has fallen

Sleep Now

I hear an army

Mélodies passagères, Op. 27

The Daisies

With rue my heart is laden, Op. 2 No. 2

Four Songs, Op. 13 - Nocturne, 'Sure on this shining night'

Dover Beach, Op. 3


Gerald Finley (baritone) & Julius Drake (piano)

The Aronowitz Ensemble

The wonderful Gerald Finley, described recently as ‘the best living baritone currently at the peak of his powers’ (The Globe and Mail), brings his ‘glorious sound and great dramatic instinct’ to this fascinating selection of songs, sensitively accompanied by Julius Drake.

This is a pretty stunning achievement. At his most mellifluous and focused, Gerald Finley has beauty of tone to spare. But he is also at his most expressive – hollowing out the voice for the hopelessness of the song “Bessie Bobtail”, letting it splinter with anger at the climax of the brief, furious “Sea Snatch”. Throughout, Julius Drake proves a predictably accomplished, thoughtful partner. The pair move easily and logically from the prettiness of the very early songs through the complexities of the Hermit Songs and the pensive Mélodies passagères. It’s a canny move to place Dover Beach as the final track. The introduction of the string quartet to close the disc shifts the mood, sending us off in another direction. It comes as a hopeful reminder of the wonder of love, even with a sting in its tail. Entirely appropriate for a bittersweet, marvellous collection. - Gramophone Magazine

GGramophone Magazine

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Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op. 11, etc.

Barber:

Adagio for Strings, Op. 11

Copland:

Quiet City

Cowell:

Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 10 for oboe and strings

Creston:

A Rumor

Ives, C:

Symphony No. 3 'The Camp Meeting'


Celia Nicklin (oboe & cor anglais) & Michael Laird (trumpet)

Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner

Recorded: Smith Square, London, October 1975

“Few anthologies find room for a symphony; but this one does, and in doing so offers us a very good one, Ives's Third: three gently affectionate movements (for once no jokes, no revolutions) ... it is music of great charm, and given exactly that quality in the continuously eloquent performance of Neville Marriner's Academy... there is also playing of the very first order in Barber's Adagio, with an intensity of string tone at the climax hardly to be believed possible with the number of players likely involved. The Copland is splendid too, trumpet and cor anglais exceptionally well balanced with each other - projecting their solos with a long-lined beauty matching that of the string players. Creston's A Rumour is in a sense a party piece for the orchestra... perhaps in this little piece Creston has produced the record's second triumph of good nature; hardly comparable in scope with the Ives, but an effective one nevertheless. Its performance and recording are of an equal standard to that of the whole disc: impeccable”. Gramophone July 1976

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Korngold: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, etc.

Barber:

Violin Concerto, Op. 14

Korngold:

Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35

Walton:

Violin Concerto


James Ehnes (violin)

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey

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Barber & Walton - Violin Concertos

Barber & Walton - Violin Concertos


Barber:

Violin Concerto, Op. 14

Bloch, E:

Baal Shem

Walton:

Violin Concerto


Joshua Bell (violin)

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, David Zinman

Recorded: Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore, January 1996

Building a Library

First Choice - January 2002

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Copland: Quiet City, etc.

Barber:

Adagio for Strings, Op. 11

Four Songs, Op. 13

Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24

Copland:

Quiet City

Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson


Barbara Hendricks

London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas

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Barber - Orchestral Works

Barber - Orchestral Works


Barber:

Adagio for Strings, Op. 11

Violin Concerto, Op. 14

Second & Third Essays for Orchestra

Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance, Op. 23a

Summer Music, Op. 31


Elmar Oliveira

Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin

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