Gottlieb, Jack > Carolina Chamber Chorale

American Classics - Gottlieb: Love Songs for Sabbath, etc

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2004-10-19

Works: Jack Gottlieb: Candle Blessings (3); Shalom Aleikhem with Candle Blessing; Love Songs for Sabbath; Set Me As a Seal; Shout for Joy; Psalmistry; Yevarechecha
Performers: Abelson, Robert; Barrick, Clinton; Chavez, Kirsten; Dent, Karl [Tenor Vocal]; Dodds, Margery; Farrell, Neil; Gilbert, John; Gottlieb, Rachel; Graves, Sarah; Huff, Harry; Rogers, Lisa; Rowe, Cheryl Be...
Conductors: Koch, Timothy; Sturk, Stephen; Davis, Kenneth
Ensemble: Carolina Chamber Chorale; Metropolitan Brass Ensemble; New York Motet Choir; Southern Jazz Ensemble; Texas Tech University Choir

"Jack Gottlieb is an unabashed populist in the Bernstein mold, which is to say his music has integrity at the same time as it makes...continue...

Menotti: The Unicorn, the Gorgon & the Manticore / Koch

1 CD / Albany Records / 2001-09-01

Works: Jack Gottlieb: Presidential Suite; R. Murray Schafer: A Medieval Bestiary, for chorus; Gian Carlo Menotti: The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore (The Three Sundays of a Poet), madrigal fable
Performers: Anderson, Eric; Burk, Jacqualine; Chavez, Kirstin; McMurtry, Lynn; Smith, Trevor
Conductors: Koch, Timothy
Ensemble: Carolina Chamber Chorale

The highlight of this disc is Menotti's "The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore." Here is one of Menotti's most accomplished works. It calls for...continue...