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Mozart - The Da Ponte Operas / Cosi fan Tutte, Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro - Peter Sellars, Wiener ...

1 review
Susan Larson, Janice Felty

Decca, 2005

Mozart-Da Ponte-Sellars--a superb collaboration
When I first saw these operas on public television in 1990, I was struck immediately by the way in which Sellars updated them, setting them in New York City and its environs with contemporary costumes, but adhering carefully to the plots so delicately constructed by Da Ponte. The singing is superb, especially in La Nozze (my favorite of the three), with a fine cast with palpable chemistry. The ...

Histoire du Soldat (Suite); Renard

2 reviews
David Evitts, Wilbur Pauley, ...

Naxos, 2007

Stravinsky Miniatures & Arrangements
The Stravinsky works collected on this excellent Naxos release are all either little-known or presented in less familiar arrangements - with the exception of 'Histoire du Soldat' which is probably more often heard as a suite (as here) than in the complete version with narrator. It is actually kind of a strange catch-all CD with a mixed bag of miniature oddments and curios alongside better-known ...

Igor Stravinsky: The Composer, Volume VII
David Evitts, Frank Morelli, ...

Music Masters Jazz, 1995

There are several wonderful works on this seventh installment of the Music Masters series of historic Stravinsky recordings. Probably the most famous is Stravinsky's jazz take on the Faust legend, The Soldier's Tale . There are other delights as well: his arrangement of La Marseillaise , the French national anthem, for solo violin; his serene Mass setting; the childlike Cat's Lullabies ; and Monument , a homage to the notorious Italian ...

Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro / Sanford Sylvan, Susan Larson, Jeanne Ommerle, Sue Ellen Kuzma, Frank Kelley, ...

4 reviews
Sanford Sylvan, Jeanne Ommerle

Decca, 2005

Peter Sellars at his best
So I have to say that I have never, ever in my life seen an opera production that resonated with me so much. Actually, I'll qualify that. I've never seen, ever, a production of a music theater piece that has touched me this way before. Sellars has moved the action from Seville in the 18th century to 1980's New York City, before you groan, stay with me. In Trump Tower, Count Almaviva lives ...

Marlboro Music Festival: 50th Anniversary -- Beethoven, Dvorak, Janacek / Serkin, Schneider

3 reviews
David Evitts, Sanford Sylvan, ...

Sony, 2000

Marlboro's History & The Choral Fantasy
Amazon's review of Beethoven's Choral Fantasy on this CD does not mention the significance of the piece for the Marlboro Music Festival. For almost 40 years, the Choral Fantasy was the last piece in the last concert of the summer. Especially in recent years when Marlboro has been exclusively a chamber music festival, the Choral Fantasy was the one time during the summer when all of the ...

John Knowles Paine: St. Peter, an oratorio

2 reviews
David Evitts, John Knowles Paine, ...

G.M. Recordings, 1996

New England Romanticism
This piece was premiered in Boston in 1873--the work of a young man from Portland MA who had studied composition in Germany in the early 1860's and took up the first professorship of music in the country--at Harvard University. It apparently received good reviews by Boston music critics, but soon faded into obscurity. This titanic oratorio is an attempt by an American composer to combine the ...