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The Shakespeare Concerts Series 2 - The Fair Ophelia

Summer / Guthrie / Sekera / Van Horn
Release Date: 11/19/2013 
Label:  Navona   Catalog #: 5935   Spars Code: DDD 
Composer:  Joseph Summer,  Johannes Brahms,  Richard Strauss,  Hector Berlioz,   ... 
Performer:  Kathyrn Guthrie,  Miroslav Sekera,  John McGinn,  Kellie Van Horn,   ... 
Number of Discs: 1 
Recorded in: Stereo 
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Works on This Recording

1. He Took Me By the Wrist by Joseph Summer
Performer:  Kathyrn Guthrie (Soprano), Miroslav Sekera (Piano)
2. Ophelia Songs, WoO 22 by Johannes Brahms
Performer:  John McGinn (Piano), Kellie Van Horn (Mezzo Soprano)
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1873; Austria 
3. They Bore Him Barefaced on the Bier by Joseph Summer
Performer:  Justin Vickers (Tenor), Kathyrn Guthrie (Soprano), Miroslav Sekera (Piano)
4. Lieder (6), Op. 67: Nos 1-3 "Ophelia Lieder" by Richard Strauss
Performer:  Andrea Chenoweth (Soprano), Miroslav Sekera (Piano)
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1918; Germany 
5. To My Sick Soul (Saint Valentine's Day) by Joseph Summer
Performer:  Chad Sloan (Baritone), Miroslav Sekera (Piano), Kathyrn Guthrie (Soprano),
Desiree Maira (Mezzo Soprano)
6. There is a willow grows aslant a brook by Joseph Summer
Performer:  Miroslav Sekera (Piano), Desiree Maira (Mezzo Soprano)
7. La mort d'Ophélie, Op. 18 no 2/H 92a by Hector Berlioz
Performer:  John McGinn (Piano), Kellie Van Horn (Mezzo Soprano)
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1842; France 
8. La mort d'Ophélie by Camille Saint-Saëns
Performer:  Andrea Chenoweth (Soprano), John McGinn (Piano)
Period: Romantic 
Written: circa 1857; France 
9. Gesänge (6), Op. 107: no 1, Herzeleid by Robert Schumann
Performer:  Andrea Chenoweth (Soprano), John McGinn (Piano)
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1851-1852; Germany 
10. Ophelia by John Cage
Performer:  John McGinn (Piano)
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1946; USA 

Sound Samples

He Took Me by the Wrist
5 Ophelia-Lieder, WoO 22
They Bore Him Barefaced on the Bier
6 Lieder, Op. 67, TrV 238 (text by W. Shakespeare): No. 1. Wie erkenn' ich mein Treulieb vor andern nun?
6 Lieder, Op. 67, TrV 238 (text by W. Shakespeare): No. 2. Guten Morgen, 's ist Sankt Valentinstag
6 Lieder, Op. 67, TrV 238 (text by W. Shakespeare): No. 3. Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloss
To My Sick Soul (Saint Valentine's Day)
Oxford Songs, Book 1: No. 11. There is a willow grows aslant a brook
La mort d'Ophelie, Op. 18, No. 2
La mort d'Ophelie
6 Gesänge, Op. 107: No. 1. Herzeleid
Ophelia

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