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Bach's Secret Files and More Crossover Fantasies

1 CD / Summit Records / 2011-04-12

Works: Joe Burgstaller: The River of Night, for jazz ensemble (after Bach's Prelude in C minor); Aria, for jazz ensemble (after Bach); Shadow Cutting, for jazz ensemble (after Satie's Gymnopédie no 1);...
Performers: Burgstaller Martignon 4; Feliciano, Brenda; Kannen, Michael
Conductors:
Ensemble: Burgstaller Martignon 4

Combine a renowned trumpeter with a Grammy-nominated pianist and you get a tasty crossover delight - classical music for jazz fans, and jazz music for...continue...
Personnel: Michael Kannen (cello).

Recording information: Bennett Studios, Englewood, NJ (06/10/2010-06/12/2010).

Crossover albums intertwining classical music and jazz are nothing new; ...continue...

Tribute to Luciano Pavarotti / Giuffredi

1 CD / Summit Records / 2008-04-08

Works: Luigi Denza: Funiculì Funiculà, for voice & orchestra (& chorus ad lib); Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly; Turandot; Manon Lescaut; Ernesto de Curtis: Torna a Surriento; Ruggero Leonca...
Performers: Giuffredi, Andrea
Conductors: Gotta, Antonello
Ensemble: Compagnia d'Opera Italiana Orchestra

An absolutely gorgeous tribute to the legendary Luciano Pavarotti from Italy's best-known trumpet player, Andrea Giuffredi....continue...

Con amore / Stewart, Sampo

1 CD / Summit Records / 2006-10-10

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; La traviata; La forza del destino; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Gaetano Donizetti: Don Pasquale; Pietro Mascagni: L'Amico Fritz; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, ope...
Performers: Sampo, Fabio; Stewart, M. Dee; Toms, Ashley

Indiana University School of Music faculty trombonist M. Dee Stewart, always seeking performing adventures, invited the co-principal trombonist of the National Radio Orchestra in Turin,...continue...

Serious Songs, Sad Faces / Mark Hetzler, Lisa Leonard

1 CD / Summit Records / 2003-05-06

Works: Hildegard von Bingen: Ordo virtutum; Johannes Ockeghem: Missa pro defunctis; John Wilbye: Adieu, sweet Amaryllis, madrigal (no 12, The First Set of English Madrigals); William Byrd: Mass for 4 Voices...
Performers: Hetzler, Mark; Leonard, Lisa

Treasures for Trumpets / Robert Sullivan, James Rensink

1 CD / Summit Records / 2002-06-04

Works: Philippe Gaubert: Cantabile et scherzetto; Jacques Ibert: Impromptu for Trumpet and Piano; André Jolivet: Air de bravoure for Trumpet and Piano; George Gershwin: Preludes (3) for Piano; Leonar...
Performers: Rensink, James; Sullivan, Robert

"Robert Sullivan, associate principal trumpet of the New York Philharmonic, has a sweet tone and a sense of ease that allows these works to sound...continue...

Queen of the Night - Electric Eclectic Opera / B.J. Ward

1 CD / Summit Records / 2000-02-15

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Francesco Cilèa: Adriana Lecouvreur; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; La Rondine; Gianni Schicchi, opera; Tosca; Douglas S. Moore: The Ballad of Baby Doe, opera in...
Performers: Hearn, George; Sushel, Michael; Ward, B.J.
Conductors: Waterman, Andy [Engineer]

Stand-Up Opera - Live from Ambassador Auditorium / B.J. Ward

1 CD / Summit Records / 2000-02-15

Works: B.J. Ward: Welcoming Remarks; Puccini Intro; Dress Code; Women As Victims; Die Tote Stadt Plot; Tosca...Accidents Will Happen; The Cosi Fan Tutte Story; Rusalka Plot into La Perle Du Brésil; Ern...
Performers: Jefferson, Gregory; Sushel, Michael; Ward, B.J.

A Brassy Night at the Opera / Bacon, Hickman, Pilafian, etc

1 CD / Summit Records / 1997-05-01

Works: Johann Strauss II: Die Fledermaus; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Don Giovanni; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Turandot; Madama Butterfly; Giuseppe Verdi...
Performers: Bacon, Thomas; Hickman, David [Trumpet]; Pilafian, Sam [Tuba]
Conductors: Russell, Tim

The Golden Age of Brass Vol 3 / Michael J. Colburn

1 CD / Summit Records / 1995-06-01

Works: Simone Mantia: Auld Lang Syne; All those endearing young charms; Amilcare Ponchielli: Concerto for Flugelhorn; Giacomo Puccini: Gianni Schicchi, opera; Hugo Schmidt: Die Teufelszunge; Stephen Foster:...
Performers: Colburn, Michael J.
Conductors: Smith, Henry Charles
Ensemble: American Serenade Band