One of Menotti's most enduring operas, The Consul had its premiere on Broadway, not in an opera house. The overtly melodramatic situation brings out the best in Menotti, and the work is a direct descendant of the verismo operas of Mascagni and Cilea. This recording includes the extension to the first interlude which Menotti added later and is not ...
Howard Hanson composed only one opera, Merry Mount, first heard in an out-of-town tryout in Ann Arbor in 1933 and produced at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on February 10, 1934. Critical and audience response to Merry Mount, which included a sizeable radio broadcast audience that also tuned into the premiere, was overwhelmingly positive, but ...
For those who already know and love Shostakovich's symphonies and who are looking for more music along the same lines, this fine disc with Gerard Schwarz leading the Seattle Symphony and Chorale may be of interest. The grimly moving "The Execution of Stepan Razin," a monumentally brutal symphonic poem for baritone soloist, chorus and orchestra, is ...
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