Offer,Samuel Barber: Historical Recordings 1935-1960
Albert Spalding (violin), Zara Nelsova (cello), Samuel Barber (baritone), Rudolf Firkušný (piano), Eileen Farrell (soprano), Orlando Cole (cello), Vladimir 'Billy' Sokoloff (piano), Eleanor Steber (Vanessa), Rosalind Elias (Erika), Nicolai Gedda (Anatol), Giorgio Tozzi (The Doctor), Regina Resnik...
A treasure-trove of historic Barber recordings...A real discovery is the broadcast of the Adagio for strings and the First Essay with the NBC Symphony under Toscanini on November 5, 1938. These... — More…
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Barber: Vanessa
- Rosalind Elias (mezzo-soprano), Giorgio Tozzi (bass), Regina Resnik (mezzo-soprano), Eleanor Steber (soprano), George Cehanovsky (baritone), Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
- Metropolitan Opera
- Dimitri Mitropoulos
- Recorded: 01 February 1958
- Recording Venue: New York
Act I: Potage creme aux perles (Erika)
Act I: No, I cannot understand (Vanessa)
Act I: Must the winter come so soon? (Erika)
Barber: Medea Orchestral Suite, Op. 23
- New Symphony Orchestra of London
- Samuel Barber
- Recorded: 12 December 1950
- Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London
I. Parodos
II. Choros: Medea and Jason - III. The Young Princess, Jason
IV. Choros
V. Medea
VI. Kantikos Agonias
VII. Exodos
Barber: Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance, Op. 23a
- New York Philharmonic
- Dimitri Mitropoulos
- Recorded: 16 March 1958
- Recording Venue: Carnegie Hall
Barber: Overture to The School for Scandal, Op. 5
- Los Angeles Janssen Symphony Orchestra
- Werner Janssen
- Recorded: 11 March 1942
The School for Scandal, Op. 5
Barber: Symphony No. 1, Op. 9
- NBC Symphony Orchestra
- Artur Rodzinski
- Recorded: 02 April 1938
- Recording Venue: Studio 8H
I. Allegro ma non troppo
II. Allegro molto
III. Andante tranquillo
IV. Con moto
Barber: Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 (revised version)
- New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
- Bruno Walter
- Recorded: 12 March 1944
- Recording Venue: Carnegie Hall
I. Allegro ma non troppo
II. Allegro molto
III. Andante tranquillo
IV. Con moto
Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op. 11
- NBC Symphony Orchestra
- Arturo Toscanini
- Recorded: 05 November 1938
- Recording Venue: Studio 8H
Barber: First Essay for Orchestra Op. 12
- NBC Symphony Orchestra
- Arturo Toscanini
- Recorded: 05 November 1938
- Recording Venue: Studio 8H
Barber: Second Essay for Orchestra, Op. 17
- New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
- Bruno Walter
- Recorded: 16 April 1942
- Recording Venue: Carnegie Hall
Barber: Commando March
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Sergey Koussevitzky
- Recorded: 30 October1943
- Recording Venue: Boston Symphony Hall