Since you are interested in Merry Mount, Op. 31, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
STEPHEN HARTKE
Hartke: The Greater Good (complete opera) Caroline Worra / John de Haan / Christine Abraham / Andrew Wentzel / Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra / Stewart Robertson [ Naxos American Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 17/Jul/2007 ] "Having amply demonstrated his ingenious skills and audacious imagination as a composer of symphonic and chamber works, Mr. Hartke emerges in this engaging live recording as an opera composer to reckon with." New York Times |
HOWARD HANSON
Bold Island Suite / Symphony No. 2 Romantic / Suite from Merry Mount Cincinnati Pops Orchestra / Erich Kunzel [ Telarc SACD / SACD - released 12/Dec/2005 ] "Erich Kunzel's taut grip on the score projects its clear symphonic structures while drawing out its wide-ranging emotions...this recording is essential." - Time Out New York |
BELLINI
La Sonnambula (complete opera recorded in 1992) Francesco Ellero d' Artegna / Alexander Papadjiakou / Raul Gimenez / Netherlands Radio Choir / Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra / Alberto Zedda [ Naxos Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2007 ] "The singing is of amazingly high quality.. Orgonasova is simply wonderful - vibrant, girlish, fluid, singing off the text and with no problem with the role's sometimes outlandish upper reaches....I can't imagine a finer current exponent of the role.... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Symphonia Domestica / Eine Alpensinfonie / Oboe Concerto / Duett-Concertino Jonathan Small (oboe) Nicholas Cox (clarinet) Alan Pendlebury (bassoon) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Gerard Schwarz [ Avie / 2 CD - released 30/Nov/2007 ] "It is a tribute to the recording that even the most cacophonous climax makes sense, and there is no impression at any time of any loss of detail. What an advert for the RLPO this set is! The cultural life of Liverpool is clearly thriving" (MusicWeb) |
DAVID SCHIFF
Schiff: Gimpel the Fool (complete opera) Richard Zeller / D'Anna Fortunato / Kevin Walsh / Thomas Glenn / Third Angle Ensemble / Kenneth Kiesler [ Naxos American Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 13/Jun/2007 ] Gimpel the Fool is a setting of the story by Polish-born American Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991). In the words of the composer, also of Polish descent, "it turned out to be world full of spirits and demons, as well as a world... |
BLOCH
Bloch: America & Concerto Grosso No. 1 Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] Swiss-born Bloch, a pupil of Eugène Ysaÿe, emigrated to the United States in 1916. Written in 1926, two years after Bloch had become an American citizen, America: An Epic Rhapsody, is the composer's tribute to his adopted country. This romantic and... |
NICOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Rimsky-Korsakov: Orchestral Suites (Incls 'Snow Maiden') Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2011 ] "The pieces are enjoyable as lollipops; perhaps they will also encourage listeners to explore Rimsky-Korsakov's operatic legacy more fully." Gramophone |
ALEXANDER BORODIN
Borodin: Symphonies Nos. 1-3 Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jul/2011 ] "This is glorious music, played with character and vitality." (The Daily Telegraph) |