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Release Date: 01/14/1997 Label: Sony Classical Masterworks Catalog #: 62837 Spars Code: ADD Composer: Samuel Barber, Gian Carlo Menotti, Alban Berg, Vincent D'Indy Performer: Martina Arroyo Conductor: Thomas Schippers Orchestra/Ensemble: New York Philharmonic, Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Number of Discs: 1 |
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This collection is intended more as a memorial to the remarkable gifts of Thomas Schippers (1930-77) than as an anomalously filled-out anthology of music by Samuel Barber. But it could hardly avoid being the latter as well: among conductors Schippers was Barber’s pre-eminent interpreter in the latter part of both their lives, and his rhetorical, impassioned, even rather wild eloquence demonstrates how much of that quality is to be found in Barber himself, unrevealed by more temperate interpretations. Indeed, if you wanted to make a case for Barber’s orchestral music, as a corrective to the widespread current view that the best of him is to be found in his songs, you could scarcely do better than with this disc. Even the Adagio is richer, much more intensely emotional than usual, while Andromache’s Farewell (with Arroyo in vibrantly exciting voice) has an almost expressionist vehemence to it. Medea’s Dance of Vengeance also receives an unsparingly eloquent, full-throated reading, and Schippers finds turbulent passion as well as nimble neo-classical qualities in the Second Essay. Barber’s music is neither miniature nor urbane in these readings, but troubled, dark, at times nobly tragic. As you might imagine, the interlude from Wozzeck is almost overwrought in its histrionic eloquence, but d’Indy’s prelude suggests that Schippers’s gifts were not narrow: he sees how Wagnerian this music is, but underlines also its characteristically French sobriety and economy of means. The recordings are brilliant, with an impressive dynamic range but a tendency to highlight wind soloists. As a tribute to the most gifted American conductor of his generation it is striking and impressive. -- Michael Oliver, Gramophone [6/1997] |
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| Works on This Recording | Back to Top | ||||
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Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance, Op. 23a by Samuel Barber | ||||
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Conductor:
Thomas Schippers
Orchestra/Ensemble: New York Philharmonic Period: 20th Century Written: 1955; USA |
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Date of Recording: 01/26/1965 Venue: Manhattan Center, New York City Length: 12 Minutes 33 Secs. |
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Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 by Samuel Barber | ||||
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Conductor:
Thomas Schippers
Orchestra/Ensemble: New York Philharmonic Period: 20th Century Written: 1936; Rome, Italy |
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Date of Recording: 02/02/1965 Venue: Manhattan Center, New York City Length: 9 Minutes 3 Secs. |
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Essay for Orchestra no 2, Op. 17 by Samuel Barber | ||||
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Conductor:
Thomas Schippers
Orchestra/Ensemble: New York Philharmonic Period: 20th Century Written: 1942; USA |
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Date of Recording: 02/02/1965 Venue: Manhattan Center, New York City Length: 10 Minutes 43 Secs. |
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The School for Scandal Overture, Op. 5 by Samuel Barber | ||||
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Conductor:
Thomas Schippers
Orchestra/Ensemble: New York Philharmonic Period: 20th Century Written: 1931-1933; USA |
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Date of Recording: 01/26/1965 Venue: Manhattan Center, New York City Length: 7 Minutes 33 Secs. |
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Andromache's Farewell, Op. 39 by Samuel Barber | ||||
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Performer:
Martina Arroyo (Soprano)
Conductor: Thomas Schippers Orchestra/Ensemble: New York Philharmonic Period: 20th Century Written: 1962; USA |
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Date of Recording: 04/09/1963 Venue: Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC Length: 12 Minutes 13 Secs. |
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Vanessa, Op. 32: Intermezzo by Samuel Barber | ||||
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Conductor:
Thomas Schippers
Orchestra/Ensemble: Columbia Symphony Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1957; USA |
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Date of Recording: 03/14/1960 Venue: Manhattan Center, New York City Length: 4 Minutes 4 Secs. |
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Amelia Goes to the Ball: Overture by Gian Carlo Menotti | ||||
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Conductor:
Thomas Schippers
Orchestra/Ensemble: Columbia Symphony Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1936; USA |
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Date of Recording: 04/03/1961 Venue: Manhattan Center, New York City Length: 4 Minutes 15 Secs. |
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Wozzeck, Op. 7: Act 3 - Interlude by Alban Berg | ||||
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Conductor:
Thomas Schippers
Orchestra/Ensemble: Columbia Symphony Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1917-1922; Austria |
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Date of Recording: 03/14/1960 Venue: Manhattan Center, New York City Length: 3 Minutes 44 Secs. |
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Fervaal, Op. 40: Prelude by Vincent D'Indy | ||||
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Conductor:
Thomas Schippers
Orchestra/Ensemble: Columbia Symphony Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1893/1895; France |
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Date of Recording: 04/03/1961 Venue: Manhattan Center, New York City Length: 6 Minutes 32 Secs. |
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