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Serenade to music.
LIBRA MMG 10055 CD
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Musical settings.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Vocal ensembles with orchestra.
- String orchestra music.
- Songs (High voice) with chamber orchestra.
- Genre:
- Musical settings.
- String orchestra music.
- Sound recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : MMG Vox Cum Laude, [1987]
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- stereo
- digital recording
- Contents:
- Serenade to music / Ralph Vaughan Williams (13:33)
- Serenade in E minor for string orchestra, op. 20 / Edward Elgar (12:35)
- Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, op. 31. Prologue ; Pastoral ; Nocturne ; Elegy ; Dirge ; Hymn ; Sonnett ; Epilogue / Britten ; words by Cotton (2nd part), Tennyson (3rd), Blake (4th), anon. 15th cent. (5th), Jonson (6th), and Keats (7th) (25:09).
- Participant:
- Mary Shearer, Karen Williams, Carlotta Wilsen, Andrea Matthews, sopranos, Karen Brunssen, Trudy Weaver, Melissa Thorburn, Virginia Dupuy, contraltos, Grayson Hirst, Marcus Haddock, Frederick Urrey, Ronald Naldi, tenors, Thomas Stallone, Stephen Owen, Nickolas Karousatos, Herbert Eckoff, basses, Joel Pitchon, solo violin (in the 1st work) ; Grayson Hirst, tenor, L. William Kuyper, horn (in the 3rd) ; New York Virtuosi Chamber Symphony ; Kenneth Klein, conductor.
- Notes:
- Label name on container spine: MMG. Label name on program notes book and container back: Vox Cum Laude MMG.
- The 1st work for 16 vocal soloists (SSSSAAAATTTTBBBB) and orchestra (with solo violin); the 2nd work for string orchestra; the 3rd work for tenor, horn and strings.
- The 1st and 3rd works sung in English; words of the 1st by Shakespeare, from The merchant of Venice, Act V, Scene 1; words of the 3rd by various poets.
- Compact disc.
- Digital recording.
- Program notes by Lewis M. Smoley and notes on the performers (7 p. : ill.) inserted in container.
- Contains:
- Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958. Serenade to music.
- Elgar, Edward, 1857-1934. Serenades, string orchestra, op. 20, E minor
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Serenade, tenor, horn, string orchestra, op. 31
- OCLC:
- 19174399
- Publisher Number:
- 4716300552
- MCD 10055 MMG
- MCD 10055 MMG Vox Cum Laude
- MCD 10055 Vox Cum Laude MMG
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