Modern American Vocal Works - Barber, Copland, Thomson [Original recording remastered]

Samuel Barber (Composer, Performer), Aaron Copland (Composer), Virgil Thomson (Composer, Performer), William Strickland (Conductor), Leontyne Price (Performer), William Warfield (Performer), Jennie Tourel (Performer), Eleanor Steber (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Samuel Barber, Virgil Thomson, Leontyne Price, William Warfield, Jennie Tourel, et al.
• Conductor: William Strickland
• Composer: Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson
• Audio CD (June 29, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00000J8PU
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #303,426 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #57 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Divas > Price, Leontyne

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars INCREDIBLE., March 7, 2001

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"ronpearl" (Stanford, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Modern American Vocal Works - Barber, Copland, Thomson (Audio CD)

This CD should be in every music lover's collection. If you are even remotely interested in American art song, this disc is for you. To have singers performing works with the composers at the piano is priceless. Steber's Knoxville is perfection. Do not pass up the chance to hear all of these incredible singers in their prime, singing works which oftentimes were written for them. It does not get any more definitive than this.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW!, October 3, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Modern American Vocal Works - Barber, Copland, Thomson (Audio CD)

What a fantastic re-release! To hear not only Price, Warfield, Steber, and Tourel in their prime, but the composers at the piano rendering definitive interpretations of thiese master works...well, the experience is priceless. This is one of the best recordings, and most treasured, in my entire collection!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorites - and I don't much care for vocal music, December 30, 2007

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Marko Velikonja (Yerevan, Armenina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Modern American Vocal Works - Barber, Copland, Thomson (Audio CD)

Though I'm not a huge fan of vocal music, this is one of my very favorite of over 1,200 CDs in my collection. It's a lovely collection, with no weak spot. Eleanor Steber in the first recording of Knoxville 1915 is magnificent, and I can never listen to anyone else do Copland's Old American Songs after hearing William Warfield's rendition here. The real finds here, though, are the Thomson works: Stabat Mater is brief but haunting and memorable, and Capital Capitals is inventive and hilarious. In this company, the young Leontyne Price in Barber's Hermit Songs is almost beside the point. I cannot recommend this CD highly enough.