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Part of the series The Harry Partch collection v. 3;Partch, Harry, 1901-1974. Works. Selections (New World Records) v. 3.
Notes:

• The 1st and 3rd works are motion picture music the 4th work is a theater piece instruments primarily constructed by the composer.
• In the 1st work: Harry Partch, voice, narrator the Harry Partch Ensemble Jack Logan, conductor. In the 2nd work: Freda Pierce, soprano chorus and instrumental ensemble John Garvey, conductor. In the 3rd work: Harry Partch, various instruments. In the 4th work: cast chorus Gate 5 Ensemble John Garvey, conductor.
• Recorded Anthology of American Music, Inc.
• Recorded in Chicago, Ill., 1958 (3rd work) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1961 (2nd work) and 1962 (4th work) and in San Diego, Calif., 1972 (1st work).
• Originally released on Gate 5 Records, Issue A (3rd work) and Issue G (2nd, 4th works) in 1962, and on New World Records NW 214 in 1978 (1st work) this compilation previously released as CRI CD 753 in 1997.
• Compact disc.
• Program notes by Bob Gilmore, bibliography, discography, and videography (19 p. : ill.) inserted in container.
• The dreamer that remains : a study in loving (10:29) — Rotate the body in all its planes : ballad for gymnasts (8:51) — Windsong (11:36) — Water! water! : an intermission with prologues and epilogues : excerpts selected by the composer (37:49).

Subjects:

• Motion picture music.
• Monologues with music (Instrumental ensemble)
• Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with instrumental ensemble.
• Instrumental ensembles.
• Music theater.

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• Title from container.
• Berliner Philharmoniker Karl Böhm, conductor.
• Recorded in Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin, June 1963 (no. 9), Feb.-Mar. 1966 (no. 5, 8), May 1971 (no. 1-2), and Nov. 1971 (no. 3-4, 6).
• Compilation previously released 1987.
• Compact discs.
• Program notes by Stefan Kunze in German, with English and French translations (36 p. : ill.) inserted in container.
• Deutsche Grammophon: 471 307-2 (471 308-2–471 311-2)
• No. 1 in D major, D 82 (29:16) — No. 2 in B flat major, D 125 (29:10) — No. 3 in D major, D 200 (27:04) — No. 4 in C minor, D 417 : Tragic (30:04) — No. 5 in B flat major, D 485 (28:23) — No. 6 in C major, D 589 : Little C major symphony (31:15) — No. 8 in B minor, D 759 : Unfinished (23:03) — No. 9 in C major, D 944 (51:03).

Subjects:

• Symphonies.
• Symphonies. fast (OCoLC)fst01140873

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Notes:

• Interview with Gheorghiu (a tribute made by WFMT Radio Network in association with EMI Classics) interspersed with opera and other vocal excerpts.
• Sung in Italian, French, Latin, Romanian, and English interview in English.
• Angela Gheorghiu, soprano various orchestras, conductors, and supporting vocalists.
• All selections previously released.
• Compact disc.
• Program notes on container.
• Manon Lescaut. Act 2, In quelle trine morbide / Puccini — Manon. Act 1, Je suis encor tout etourdie / Massenet — Boheme. Act 1, Mi chiamano Mimi Act 3, Donde lieta usci Tosca. Act 1 duet extract : Mia gelosa / Puccini — Requiem mass. Libera me Simon Boccanegra. Act 1, Vini a mirar la cerula / Verdi — La rondine. Act 1, Chi il bel sogno di Doretta Act 3, Closing scene / Puccini — Norma. Act 1, Casta diva / Bellini — Manon. Act 3, Closing scene : N’est ce plus ma main / Massenet — Carmen. Act 2, Tra-la-la-la Act 2, La-bas, la-bas, dans la montagne / Bizet — Madam Butterfly. Act 2, Un bel di — La seceris. Cate flori pe deal in sus / Brediceanu — My fair lady. Act 1, I could have danced all night / Loewe.

Subjects:

• Gheorghiu, Angela — Interviews.
• Operas — Excerpts.
• Musicals — Excerpts.
• Gheorghiu, Angela. fast (OCoLC)fst01782950
• Interviews. fast (OCoLC)fst01423832

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Notes:

• The 1st and 4th works for orchestra, the 3rd work for piano and chamber orchestra
• Lucie Kaucká, piano (3rd work) Gamavilla String Quartet (2nd work) Capella Cracoviensis (1st work) Moravian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra (3rd work) Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra (4th work) Joseph Firszt (1st work), Petr Šumník (3rd work), Toshiyuki Shimada (4th work), conductors.
• The 1st work recorded May 13, 2003, Cracow Philharmonic Hall, Cracow, Poland the 2nd-4th works recorded at Reduta Hall, Olomouc, Czech Republic, June 19, 2003 (4th work), Oct. 14-15, 2005 (2nd work), Apr. 28, 2007 (3rd work).
• Compact disc.
• Program notes by Bruce Hobson on the music and performers in English (16 p. : col. ill.) inserted in container.
• Mountain paths (2001) (15:53) — String quartet (2004) (22:42) — Contrasts (1965, revised 2007) (19:39) — Morphopoiesis (1999) (12:03).

Subjects:

• Orchestral music.
• String quartets.
• Concertos (Piano with chamber orchestra)
• Piano with chamber orchestra.

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Notes:

• Stage dialect instruction booklets by David Alan Stern copyrighted 1979 and 1983.
• [pt. 1]. New York City — [pt. 2]. American Southern — [pt. 3]. 4 Texas dialects — [pt. 4]. Boston — [pt. 5]. Down East New England — [pt. 6]. Upper class New England Kennedy-esque — [pt. 7]. Chicago — [pt. 8]. Midwest farm and ranch — [pt. 9]. Australian — [pt. 10]. Spanish — [pt. 11]. Italian — [pt. 12]. French — [pt. 13]. German — [pt. 14]. Russian — [pt. 15]. Yiddish — [pt. 16]. Polish — [pt. 17]. Norwegian and Swedish — [pt. 18]. Standard British (2nd ed.) — [pt. 19]. British North Country — [pt. 20]. Cockney — [pt. 21]. Irish — [pt. 22]. Scottish — [pt. 23]. Arabic — [pt. 24]. Persian (Farsi) — [pt. 25]. West Indian & Black African.

Subjects:

• Acting.
• English language — Dialects.

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Part of the series Lyrichord early music series;Lyrichord early music series.
Notes:

• Compact disc.
• Program notes on container.
• Cantigas 36 (Las cantigas de Santa Maria) — Kyrie (Missa sine nomine) (The two three-voice masses) / Johannes Ockeghem –Saltarello & trotto (Istanpitta! vol. 1) — Sanctus (Missa de Sancta Anna & Lamentations) / Pierre de La Rue — Credo in unum Deum / Dufay (The art of the lute / Joseph Iadone) — Kyrie / Defronciaco (French sacred music of the 14th c.) — Weep you no more sad fountain (Lute songs) / John Dowland — Who made thee, forsake the plough? (Music of William Byrd) What pleasure have great princes? (Music for voice and viol) / William Byrd — Toccata La ciate i monti Rosa del ciel Ritornello-Vi ricorda (Orfeo) / Claudio Monteverdi — Volta / Anon. (Minstrelsy!) — Hark! The ech’ing air (Aires and duets) / Henry Purcell — Ciacona (Mensa sonora) / Heinrich Biber — Moderato (Flute duets) / Georg Phillip Telemann.

Subjects:

• Music.

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Notes:

• Archiv Produktion: 415 514-2 (415 515-2–415 516-2).
• Ed. recorded: Neue Bach-Ausgabe (Kassel: Barenreiter, 1954), ed. F. Smend.
• Compact discs.
• Program notes by Christoph Wolff in German with English and French translations and texts in German, Latin, English, and French (48 p. : ill.) inserted in container.
• Nancy Argenta, Lynne Dawson, Jane Fairfield, Jean Knibbs, Patrizia Kwella, sopranos Carol Hall, Mary Nichols, mezzo-sopranos Michael Chance, Patrick Collin, Ashley Stafford, altos Wynford Evans, Howard Milner, Andrew Murgatroyd, tenors Richard Lloyd Morgan, Stephen Varcoe, basses Monteverdi Choir English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner, conductor.
• Recorded in London in the All Saints’ Church, Tooting, Feb. 1985.

Subjects:

• Masses.

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Notes:

• Norma Gentile, soprano.
• Recorded Mar. 13, 1994 (4th work), Apr. 16, 1994 (1st-3rd, 6th-11th works), and Jan. 22, 1995 (5th work).
• Compact disc.
• Program notes, in part by the performer, and English translations of texts ([8] p.) inserted in container.
• O virtus sapientie = O true wisdom (2:01) — O viridissima virga = O greenest twig (4:05) — O coruscans lux stellarum = O glistening starlight (5:30) — O rubor sanguinis = O ruby blood (1:42) — O viriditas digiti Dei = O life-green finger of God (5:57) — O Kyrie = Creator of life (2:35) — O Jerusalem (10:39) — Spiritus Sanctus vivificans vita = Holy Spirit bewtowing life unto life (4:48) — O ignis spiritus = O comforting fire of Spirit (6:40) — O ecclesia = O beloved (9:11) — O nobilissima viriditas = O verdure most noble (6:27).

Subjects:

• Gregorian chants.
• Sacred vocal music — 500-1400.

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Notes:

• Alice Ripley, J. Robert Spencer, Aaron Tveit, Jennifer Damiano, Adam Chanler-Berat, Louis Hobson Charlie Alterman, conductor, piano with accompanying instrumentalists.
• Recording produced by Kurt Deutsch, Joel Moss, David Stone.
• Recorded Feb. 11-12, 2009, Avatar Studio C, New York City.
• Compact discs.
• Synopsis and lyrics (col. ill.) in container.
• Pulitzer Prize Award for Drama, 2010.
• Prelude — Just another day — Everything else — Who’s crazy/My psychopharmacologist and I — Perfect for you — I miss the mountains — It’s gonna be good — He’s not here — You don’t know — I am the one — Superboy and the invisible girl — I’m alive — Make up your mind/Catch me I’m falling — I dreamed a dance — There’s a world — I’ve been — Didn’t I see this movie? — A light in the dark — Wish I were here — Song of forgetting — Hey #1 — Seconds and years — Better than before — Aftershocks — Hey #2 — You don’t know (reprise) — How could I ever forget? — It’s gonna be good (reprise) — Why stay?/A promise — I’m alive (reprise) — The break — Make up your mind/Catch me I’m falling (reprise) — Maybe (Next to normal) — Hey #3/Perfect for you (reprise) — So anyway — I am the one (reprise) — Light.

Subjects:

• Musicals.

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Notes:

• The 1st work originally for voice and piano, arr. for oboe and piano the 2nd and 4th works for solo oboe the last work originally composed for the film Henry IV, arr. for oboe and piano.
• Rebecca Henderson, oboe Timothy Lovelace, piano (1st, 3rd, 5th-7th works) Helen Callus, viola (5th work).
• Recorded Dec. 18-20, 2002, and Jan. 6-8, 2003 at Bates Recital Hall, The University of Texas at Austin School of Music.
• Eds. recorded: Helicon Music (1st work), Peters (4th work), McGinnis & Marx (5th work), Papagena Press (6th work), Tonos Musikverlag (7th work).
• Compact disc.
• Program and biographical notes ([14] p. : ports.) inserted in container.
• Black anemones / Joseph Schwantner (4:32) — Is but a dream / Roupen Shakarian (3:46) — Sonata for oboe and piano / Richard Henderson (11:00) — Reeds. Under the shady trees, hidden in the reeds (Job 40:21) Reeds shall grow in the parched ground (Isaiah 35:7) The golden reed (Revelations [sic] 21:15) The paper reeds by the brooks (Isaiah 19:7) A reed shaken with the wind (Matthew 11:7) / Daniel Pinkham (13:00) — Two rhapsodies for oboe, viola and piano. The pond The bagpipe / Charles Martin Loeffler (23:00) — Sonata for oboe and piano / Katherine Hoover (18:00) — Oblivión / Astor Piazzolla (4:17).

Subjects:

• Oboe and piano music, Arranged.
• Oboe music.
• Sonatas (Oboe and piano)
• Trios (Piano, oboe, viola)
• Motion picture music — Excerpts, Arranged.

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