Samuel Barber - Historical Recordings, 1935-1960
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Label: Music and Arts
Cat No: WHRA6039
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 8
Release Date: 20th June 2011
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Contents:
Adagio for Strings, op.11
Recorded live on 5th November 1938
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
Capricorn Concerto
Recorded live on 2nd May 1945
CBS Orchestra, Samuel Barber
Violin Concerto, op.14
Recorded 7th February 1941
Albert Spalding (violin)
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy
Cello Concerto, op.22
Recorded 11th December 1950
Zara Nelsova (cello)
New Symphony Orchestra, Samuel Barber
Die Natali, op.37
Recorded live on 23rd December 1960
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch
Dover Beach, op.3
Recorded 13th May 1935
Samuel Barber (baritone)
Curtis String Quartet
First Essay for Orchestra op.12
Recorded live on 5th November 1938
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
Second Essay for Orchestra, op.17
Recorded live on 16th April 1942
New Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter
Excursions op.20
Recorded 17th November 1950
Rudolf Firkušný (piano)
Knoxville: Summer of 1915, op.24
Recorded live 19th June 1949
Eileen Farrell (soprano)
CBS Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Herrmann
Medea Orchestral Suite, op.23
Recorded 12th December 1950
New Symphony Orchestra, Samuel Barber
Overture to The School for Scandal, op.5
Recorded 11th March 1942
Janssen Symphony, Janssen Victor
Prayers of Kierkegaard, op.30
Recorded live on 3rd December 1954
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch
Cello Sonata in C minor, op.6
Recorded live on 28th January 1973
Orlando Cole (cello), Vladimir 'Billy' Sokoloff (piano)
String Quartet, op.11
Recorded live on 14th March 1938
Curtis Quartet
Symphony no.1, op.9
Original version; recorded live 2nd April 1938
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski
Symphony no.2, op.19
Original version; recorded live on 4th March 1944
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky
Vanessa
Recorded live on 1st February 1958
Eleanor Steber (Vanessa), Rosalind Elias (Erika), Nicolai Gedda (Anatol), Giorgio Tozzi (The Doctor), Regina Resnik (The Old Baroness), George Cehanovsky (Nicholas), Robert Nagy (Footman)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera House, Dimitri Mitropoulos
Violin Concerto, op.14
Revised version; recorded 7th January 1949
Ruth Posselt (violin)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky
Knoxville: Summer of 1915, op.24
Revised version; recorded live in October 1958
Eleanor Steber (soprano)
Edwin Biltcliffe
Knoxville: Summer of 1915, op.24
Revised version; recorded live on 15th November 1959
Leontyne Price (soprano)
New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Schippers
Symphony no.1, op.9
Revised version; recorded 12th March 1944
New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruno Walter
Symphony no.2, op.19
Revised version; recorded 13th December 1950
New Symphony Orchestra, Samuel Barber
Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance, op.23a
Recorded live on 16th March 1958
New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitri Mitropoulos
Sure on this shining night, op.13 no.3
Four Songs, op.13, no.4 (Nocturne)
I hear an army
Recorded live on 2nd May 1945
Jennie Tourel (mezzo)
CBS Symphony Orchestra, Samuel Barber
Commando March
Recorded live on 30th October 1943
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky
Souvenirs, op.28
Recorded on 15th August 1952
Gold & Fizdale Duo
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