Opera/Operetta > Saxophone

Fascinating Rhythm

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2011-04-05

Works: George Gershwin: Preludes (3) for piano; Oh, Kay!; A Foggy Day (in London Town), song (from A Damsel in Distress, film); Cuban Overture; Lady, be Good; Porgy And Bess; Girl Crazy; Strike up the Band
Performers: Hemke, Frederick
Conductors:
Ensemble: Figard String Quintet

Recording information: Pick Staiger Concert Hall on the campus of Northwestern....continue...

Elliott Sharp: Binibon

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2010-12-14

Works: Elliott Sharp: Binibon, opera
Performers: Sharp, Elliott

New York composer Elliott Sharp was in the East Village café, Binibon, the night in 1981 when paroled murderer and best-selling author Jack Henry Abbott, a protégé of Norman Mailer's, k...continue...

Piazzolla: Andares; Sánchez, Angarita, Piana, Russ / Russ, Débora Russ Ensemble, et al

1 CD / Aeon / 2009-06-09

Works: Astor Piazzolla: Maria de Buenos Aires; Preludio para el año 3001 (Rinasceró); Será que estoy llorando; Ausencias; Pequeña canción para Matilde; Adios nonino; Liber...
Performers: Allemand, Lionel; Angarita, Mauricio; Guanzini, Laurent; Ruault, Benoit; Russ, Débora; Strouk, Samuel
Conductors: Angarita, Mauricio
Ensemble: Débora Russ Ensemble

With this album, aeon pursues the adventure initiated two years ago by singer Debora Russ, who interprets some of her own songs, set to music...continue...

Glass Box - Philip Glass Nonesuch Retrospective

10 CD / Nonesuch / 2008-09-30

Works: Philip Glass: Contrary Motion; Music with Changing Parts; Music in Similar Motion; Music in 12 parts; Einstein on the Beach; Closing; North Star; Dressed like an Egg; Mad Rush; MEDLEY; Koyaanisqatsi;...
Performers: Allen, Sanford; Anderer, Joseph; Arner, Leonard; Baker, Timothy; Balm, Neil; Barab, Seymour; Bargen, Karl; Bauch, Ethan; Beckenstein, Marion; Benary, Barbara; Benincasa, Rex; Bielawa, Lisa; Bielecki,...
Conductors: Riesman, Michael; Keene, Christopher; ; Davies, Dennis R.; Goldray, Martin; Ingman, Nick
Ensemble: ; American Composers Orchestra; Bruckner Orchestra; English Chamber Orchestra; Kronos Quartet; Lyric Quartet; New York City Opera Orchestra; Philip Glass Ensemble; Quena Ensemble; String Orchestra; S...

This elegantly packaged 10-disc retrospective surveys four decades of work by Philip Glass, from his earliest solo pieces to his world-renowned operas to his Oscar-nominated...continue...

Andrew Lloyd Weber - A Classical Tribute

1 CD / Decca / 2008-03-25

Works: Andrew Lloyd Webber: Evita; Cats; Phantom of the Opera; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Requiem; Sunset Boulevard; Jesus Christ Superstar; Aspects of Love; Beautiful Game; Variations fo...
Performers: Argent, Rod; Carreras, José; Clayderman, Richard; Copley, Michael; Cullen, David; Fleming, Renée; Garrett, Lesley; Hartley, Dave; Hiseman, Jon; Jenkins, Katherine; Jones, Paul; Keogh, P...
Conductors: Wordsworth, Barry; Farnon, Robert; Gemignani, Paul; Stratta, Ettore; Barlow, Stephen; Inglis, Anthony; Bateman, Paul
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra; Prague Sinfonia; Robert Farnon Orchestra; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Royal Philharmonic Pops Orchestra; Welsh National Opera Orchestra

To celebrate the 60th birthday of Andrew Lloyd Webber, this spectacular album brings together recordings made by the most sought-after classical artists, including Jose Carreras,...continue...

Allen Shawn: Music Teacher / Timothy Long, et al

1 CD / Bridge / 2008-03-01

Works: Allen Shawn: The Music Teacher
Performers: Ariola, Lloyd P.; Basthemer, Derek; Benoliel, Ross; Cordova, Elisa; Feller, Bart; Forbach, Jason; Gomez, Lino; Hartman, Steven; Jelencovich, Lauren; Knutson, Kristin; LaGrange, Whitney; Long, Timothy...
Conductors: Long, Timothy
Ensemble: Ensemble

'The Music Teacher' is a chamber opera told by two narrators twenty years or so after the events described. The plot focuses around a music...continue...

Christa Ludwig: Live Recordings, 1955-1994

3 CD / Orfeo / 2008-02-26

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Così fan tutte, K 588; Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos, Op 60; Die Frau ohne Schatten, Op. 65; Capriccio, ...
Performers: Behrens, Hildegard; Beirer, Hans; Berry, Walter; Bonisolli, Franco; Casa, Lisa della; Cathy Berns-Rund; Chauvet, Guy; Donch, Karl; Fassbaender, Brigitte [Mezzo-Soprano Vocals]; Flossman, Gilels; Gall...
Conductors: Böhm, Karl; Krips, Josef; Erede, Alberto; Karajan, Herbert von; Ludwig, Leopold; Prêtre, Georges; Heger, Robert; Maazel, Lorin; Bernstein, Leonard; Stein, Horst; Albrecht, Gerd; Mehta, Zubi...

Welcome to the Voice

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2007-05-15

Works: Steve Nieve: Welcome to the Voice
Performers: Belton, Ian; Bonney, Barbara; Cassidy, Paul; Costello, Elvis; Fulgoni, Sara; Haveron, Andrew; Manfrino, Nathalie; Nieve, Steve; Quessada, Antoine; Ribot, Marc; Roocroft, Amanda; Rothenberg, Ned; Stin...
Conductors: Teodori, Muriel
Ensemble: Brodsky String Quartet; Le choeur des amis français ; London Voices

"The true salvation is the human voice." When these words are sung by Sting on the title track of Welcome to the Voice, we are...continue...

Ancora - Casken: Golem / Bernas, Music Projects London

2 CD / NMC Classics / 2005-05-05

Works: John Casken: Golem
Performers: Beswick, Judith; Clarke, Adrian; Cotterell, Stephen; Hall, John; Harrhy, Paul; Hockings, David; Honour, Colin; Irvine, Robert; McFarlane, Belinda; Morris, Richard; Preston, Sophia; Robson, Christophe...
Conductors: Bernas, Richard
Ensemble: Music Projects, London

Berlioz: Les Troyens

3 CD / Gala / 2001-05-11

Works: Hector Berlioz: Les Troyens, opera, H. 133a
Performers: Aichberger, Ewald; Chauvet, Guy; Dernesch, Helga [Soprano]; Ludwig, Christa; Schöne, Wolfgang
Conductors: Albrecht, Gerd

Gershwin: Porgy and Bess Arrangements, etc /Fazil Say, et al

1 CD / Teldec / 2000-04-25

Works: George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess; Rhapsody in Blue, for piano & orchestra (orchestrated by F. Grofé); Rialto Ripples, rag for piano; Impromptu in Two Keys, for piano; Merry Andrew, dance for pi...
Performers: Drucker, Stanley; Regni, Al; Saporito, James; Say, Fazil
Conductors: Masur, Kurt
Ensemble: New York Philharmonic

Le Patron of the Saxaphone, Encore!

1 CD / The Classics Label / 2000-01-01

Works: Pierre Vellones: Rapsodie for alto saxophone, harp & celeste (& gong); Le Dauphin, for saxophone quartet; Pièces (2) pour Columbia, for ondes martenot & ensemble; Gabriel Pierné: Chanson d'...
Performers: B. Leonet; Bauchy; Benvenuti, Joseph; Cariven Ensemble; Chaligne; Charon [Band]; Chauvet; Gordet; Josse; L'homme Qui Valait 3 Milliard; M. Gaveau; M. Pellas-Lenom; Mule, Marcel; Paul Romby; Poimboeuf...

Personnel: Marcel Mule (saxophone)....continue...

Donizetti: Maria de Rudenz / Parry, Miricioiu, Ford, et al

2 CD / Opera Rara / 1998-10-01

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: Maria di Rudenz
Performers: Brewer, Aline; Douglas, Nigel; Ford, Bruce [Tenor Vocal]; Hargraves, Matthew; McFarland, Robert; Miricioiu, Nelly; Nathan, Regina; Stenhouse, John
Conductors: Parry, David

Maria de Rudenz is one of the strangest and yet most interesting of Donizetti's operas. It is based on 'The Bloodstained Nun,' a gruesome melodrama...continue...

Surround Spectacular - The Music, The Tests

2 CD / Delos / 1995-01-01

Works: Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra; Ottorino Respighi: Feste romane; Andrew York: Bantu, for guitar quartet; Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Alma Redemptoris mater; George Frederick Handel: W...
Performers: Lucas, Wendy Herner; Noehren, Robert; Rosenberger, Carol [Piano]; Rousseau, Eugene; Wilson, Todd [Organ]
Conductors: Schwarz, Gerard; DePreist, James; ; Keene, Dennis; Fennell, Frederick; Macal, Zdenek; Pearson, Donald
Ensemble: ; Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; Indiana Wind Ensemble; Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

Saxophone Vocalise / Rousseau, Fennell, Winds of Indiana

1 CD / Delos / 1995-01-01

Works: George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess; Bernhard Heiden: Diversion for Alto saxophone and Band; Fantasai Concertante; Max Bruch: Kol Nidrei for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 47; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; Jules Mas...
Performers: Rousseau, Eugene
Conductors: Fennell, Frederick
Ensemble: Winds of Indiana

Robert Ashley: Perfect Lives - An Opera for Television

3 CD / Lovely Music / 1991-10-01

Works: Robert Ashley: Perfect Lives
Performers: Ashley, Robert; Gordon, Peter [Saxophone]; Kroesen, Jill; Tyranny, "Blue" Gene; Van Tieghem, David

Saxophone Colors / Eugene Rousseau, Hans Graf

1 CD / Delos / 1986-01-01

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata for Flute and Basso Continuo in E major, BWV 1035; Claude Debussy: Rhapsodie for Saxophone and Orchestra; Heitor Villa-Lobos: Fantasia for Saxophone, 2 Horns and Strings...
Performers: Graf, Hans [Conductor]; Rousseau, Eugene

Personnel: Eugene Rousseau (soprano saxophone, alto saxophone); Hans Graf (piano).

Recording information: Yamaha Epicurus Studios, Tokyo, Japan (05/27/1984)....continue...