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Music of Samuel Barber

Vanguard Classics, p1991

Musical Sound Recording(Compact Audio Disc)

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Note

For orchestra (1st-2nd works); for male chorus and instrumental ensemble (3rd); for mixed chorus and orchestra (4th)

Sung in English (3rd-5th works)

Title from spine of container

Text by Stephen Spender (3rd work); Emily Dickinson (4th); Gian Carlo Menotti (5th)

Patricia Neway, soprano (5th work) ; Eunice Alberts, contralto (5th) ; William Lewis, tenor (5th) ; Philip Maero, baritone (5th) ; Robert De Cormier Chorale (3rd) ; Washington Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys (4th) ; Symphony of the Air (1st-6th) ; I Solisti di Zagreb (7th) ; Vladimir Golschmann (1st-6th), Antonio Janigro (7th), conductors

Recorded in USA

Compact disc; analog recording

Program notes in English

Texts and libretto in English

Vanguard Classics: OVC 4016

Contents of Works

  • Second essay for orchestra : op. 17
  • Music for a scene from Shelley : op. 7
  • A stopwatch and an ordnance map : op. 15
  • Let down the bars, o death!
  • A hand of bridge : op. 35 : (chamber opera)
  • Serenade for string orchestra, op. 1
  • Adagio for strings, op. 11

Details

  • NCID
    BA41234174
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    1 sound disc (52 min.)
  • Size
    4 3/4 in.
  • Attached Material
    1 leaflet
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