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Three essays for orchestra ; Excerpts from "Vanessa" ; Music for a scene from Shelley ; Medea's mediatation and dance of vengeance / Samuel Barber.
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981.
- Series:
- Naxos Music Library.
- Standardized Title:
- Orchestra music. Selections
- Language:
- No linguistic content
- Subjects (All):
- Orchestral music.
- Operas--Excerpts.
- Operas.
- Incidental music.
- Ballets--Excerpts.
- Ballets.
- Genre:
- Orchestral music.
- Sound recordings.
- Excerpts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 audio file)
- Place of Publication:
- Colchester, Essex, England : Chandos, [1992, 1994, c2001]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Contents:
- First essay, op. 12 (8:10)
- Second essay, op. 17 (9:35)
- Third essay, op. 47 (11:58)
- Vanessa. Intermezzo (3:19)
- Vanessa. Under the willow tree (3:22)
- Music for a scene from Shelley, op. 7 (10:13)
- Medea's meditation and dance of vengeance, op. 23a (13:01).
- Participant:
- Detroit Symphony Orchestra ; Neeme Järvi, conductor.
- Notes:
- The 2nd work from the opera Vanessa ; the 3rd work is incidental music to Shelley's Act II, Scene 5 of Prometheus Unbound ; the fourth work is the orchestral movement from the 1946 ballet.
- Recorded in Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall, 8-9 Nov. 1991 (1st work), 24-25 April, 1993 (2nd-3rd works), and 16 Jan. 1994 (4th work).
- Vanessa awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music, 1958
- Description based on hard copy version record.
- Other Format:
- Source record: Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981. Orchestra music. Selections. Three essays for orchestra.
- OCLC:
- 811244033
- Publisher Number:
- GBLWD0103801
- GBLWD0103802
- GBLWD0103803
- GBLWD0103804
- GBLWD0103805
- GBLWD0103806
- GBLWD0103807
- CHAN9908 Chandos
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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