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Music of Samuel Barber.

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Format:
Sound recording
Author/Creator:
Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981, composer.
Agee, James, 1909-1955, author.
Contributor:
McNair, Sylvia (Soprano), singer.
Levi, Yoel, 1950- conductor.
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, instrumentalist.
Series:
Naxos Music Library.
Standardized Title:
Works. Selections
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Orchestral music.
Songs (High voice) with orchestra.
String orchestra music, Arranged.
Overtures.
Agee, James, 1909-1955--Musical settings.
Agee, James.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 sound file)
Place of Publication:
Cleveland, OH : Telarc, [1992]
System Details:
digital
audio file
Contents:
Overture to "The school for scandal," op. 5 (8:43)
Knoxville: summer of 1915 : op. 24 (17:11)
(First) essay for orchestra, op. 12 (8:09)
Second essay, op. 17 (10:06)
Adagio for strings, op. 11 (8:15)
Medea's dance of vengeance, op. 23A (12:52).
Participant:
Sylvia McNair, soprano (in the 2nd work) ; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra ; Yoel Levi, conductor.
Notes:
Principally for orchestra; the 2nd work for high voice with orchestra; the 5th work an arrangement for string orchestra of a movement from his String quartet, op. 11.
Text of the 2nd work by James Agee.
Recorded in Woodruff Memorial Arts Center, Atlanta, Ga., 1991 April 13 (1st, 3rd, 6th works), and 1991 March 4 (2nd, 4th-5th works).
Contains:
Container of: Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981. School for scandal.
Container of: Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981. Knoxville, summer of 1915.
Container of: Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981. Essay, orchestra, no. 1
Container of: Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981. Essay, orchestra, no. 2
Container of: Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981. Quartets, violins (2), viola, cello, no. 1, op. 11, B minor. Adagio; arranged
Container of: Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981. Medea's meditation and dance of vengeance.
OCLC:
1429907750
Publisher Number:
USTE10301250
USTE10302250
USTE10303250
USTE10304250
USTE10305250
USTE10306250
00888072447929 Telarc
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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