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Renee Fleming
I Want Magic! American Opera Arias
A wide-ranging survey of American opera from one of its most passionate proponents

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Samuel Barber: "Must the winter come so soon" from Vanessa

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Conducts Hanson

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Perückenstück from The Civilian Barber

Suite from The Civilian Barber

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John Corigliano: Phantasmagoria on The Ghosts of Versailles

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Phantasmagoria: the Music of John Corigliano

CD / Sony 60747 (2000)

John Corigliano: Phantasmagoria on The Ghosts of Versailles

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Norman Fischer

Born in America 1938

CD / Gasparo 351 (2002)

Robert Ward: Ballad from Pantaloon

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The Listeners

CD / New World Records 80475 (1995)

Lulu's Song from The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

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Lukas Foss

Lulu's Song, Etc.

CD / Koch 7209 (1996)

Louis Gruenberg: "Oh Lord!... Standin' in the need of prayer" from The Emperor Jones

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Of Gods and Demons

CD / Sony 62758 (1997)

Telephone Aria from The Telephone

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Gian Carlo Menotti

In Concert 1956-1958

Eleanor Steber

2 CD / VAI 1005 (1994)

Gian Carlo Menotti: "What a curse for a woman is a timid man" from The Old Maid and the Thief

Igor Stravinsky: "No word from Tom" from The Rake's Progress

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Dawn Upshaw

Knoxville: Summer of 1915

CD / Nonesuch 79187 (1990)

Bernard Herrmann: "I have dreamt" from Wuthering Heights

Douglas Moore: Letter Song from The Ballad of Baby Doe

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I Want Magic! American Opera Arias

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Aaron Copland: Laurie's Song from The Tender Land

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The World So Wide

CD / Nonesuch 79458 (1998)

Louis Gruenberg: "Oh Lord!... Standin' in the need of prayer" from The Emperor Jones ((Lawrence Tibbett))

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Four American Baritones of the Past

CD / Preiser 89957 (1999)

Louis Gruenberg: "Oh Lord!... Standin' in the need of prayer" from The Emperor Jones

Howard Hanson: "Oh, 'tis an Earth defiled" from Merry mount

George Gershwin: excerpts from Porgy and Bess ((with Helen Jepson))

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Lawrence Tibbett: From Broadway to Hollywood

CD / Nimbus NI7881 (1999)

Louis Gruenberg: "Oh Lord!... Standin' in the need of prayer" from The Emperor Jones (Lawrence Tibbett)

Howard Hanson: "Oh, 'tis an Earth defiled" from Merry mount (Lawrence Tibbett)

Victor Herbert: Arias from Natoma (Jan Peerce, Alma Gluck, John McCormack, Reinald Werrenrath)

Frederick Shepherd Converse: Chonita's Prayer from The Sacrifice

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Walter Damrosch: Balcony scene from Cyrano (Felix Knight, Agnes Davis)

Victor Herbert: A Perfect Day from Madeline

Charles Wakefield Cadman: "Once on a time" (Spring Song) and "Out on the lake" (Ojibway Canoe Song) from Shanewis (Elsie Baker)

Deems Taylor: Arias from The King's Henchman (Lawrence Tibbett, Jan Peerce)

Deems Taylor: "I could never dedicate my days" from Peter Ibbetson (Licia Albanese)

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Souvenirs from American Opera

CD / IRCC 818 (1998)

Gian Carlo Menotti: "While I Waste These Precious Hours" from Amelia Goes to the Ball

Samuel Barber: "He has come, he has come! . . . Do not utter a word" from Vanessa

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Leontyne Price

The Prima Donna Collection

4 CD / RCA (1978)

Lukas Foss: "That was a mighty good dinner" from The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Victor Herbert: Reveries from Hearts of Eileen

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The Art of the American Singer

CD / Newport 85636 (1998)

Peter Lieberson: Triraksha's aria from Ashoka's Dream

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Lorraine Hunt Lieberson

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CD / BBC Legends 102 (2000)

Reginald De Koven: "Oh Promise Me" from Robin Hood

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John McCormack

Count John McCormack: The Final Recordings

2 CD / Pearl/Koch 9188 (1995)

Reginald De Koven: "Oh Promise Me" from Robin Hood

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John McCormack

Music of the Night

CD / Pearl/Koch 9243 (1997)

Reginald De Koven: "Oh Promise Me" from Robin Hood

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Lauritz Melchior

Complete MGM Recordings

CD / Romophone 82019 (2001)

Reginald De Koven: "Oh Promise Me" from Robin Hood

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Robert Merrill

Robert Merrill on Radio: Unpublished Broadcasts from 1940 to 1946

CD / Enterprise/Radio Years 14 (1995)

Reginald De Koven: "Oh Promise Me" from Robin Hood

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Jan Peerce

The Bluebird of Happiness

CD / Pearl 9297 (1997)

Julius Eichberg: Overture from The Doctor of Alcantara

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The Boston Brass

Stealing the Show

CD / Summitt 272 (2000)

John Adams: "I am the wife of Mao Tse-Tung" from Nixon in China

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Elin Carlson

And What Of Love

CD / Eroica Classical (1998)

Lilith (orchestral suite, composed before the opera)

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Deborah Drattell

Sorrow Is Not Melancholy: The Very Intense Music of Deborah Drattell

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CD / Delos (1995)

Samuel Barber: "Give me my robe" from Antony and Cleopatra

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Alessandra Marc

Opera Gala

CD / Delos 3240 (2000)

Samuel Barber: "Give me my robe" from Antony and Cleopatra

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Leontyne Price

The Essential Leontyne Price: Her Greatest Roles

2 CD / BMG/RCA Victor 68154 (1998)

Excerpts from Lord Byron

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Virgil Thomson

Orchestral Works

Martyn Hill, Budapest Symphony Orch./Bolle

CD / Albany 17 (1994)

Gian Carlo Menotti: "To this we've come" from The Consul

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Eileen Farrell

Eileen Farrell Sings Opera Arias & Songs

CD / Testament 1073 (1996)

Gian Carlo Menotti: Mother's Aria from The Consul

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Angelika Krichschlager

When Night Falls

CD / Sony 64498 (1999)

Gian Carlo Menotti: Lullaby from The Consul

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Nadia Pelle

Lullabies

CD / Chandos (1994)

Gian Carlo Menotti: Wir sind soweit (To this we've come) from The Consul

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Inge Borkh

Inge Borkh

2 CD / Gala (2000)

Excerpts from Reuben, Reuben

Excerpts from Juno

Excerpts from No For An Answer

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"Send for the Militia" from Parade

"A Quiet Girl" from Lunchtime Follies

The New Suit from A New York Opera

"The Russian Language/Mamasha Goose" from Goloopchik

"With a Woman to Be" from Sacco and Vanzetti

on

Marc Blitzstein

A Blitzstein Cabaret

Willims/Edwards/Lehrman

CD / Premier (1994)

Marc Blitzstein

Cradle Will Rock (Soundtrack to the 1999 film, including songs from Blitzstein's opera)

CD / Victor (1999)

Victor Herbert: "A perfect day" from Madeline

on

Frances Alda

Acoustic & Electric Recordings, 1910-198

CD / VAI 1126 (1996)

Victor Herbert: "A perfect day" from Madeline

on

Frances Alda

The Complete Victor Recordings, 1909-1915

CD / Romophone 81034 (1999)

Victor Herbert: "I list the trill in golden throat" from Natoma

on

Alma Gluck

Alma Gluck

CD / Marston 52001 (1997)

Victor Herbert: "I list the trill in golden throat" from Natoma

on

American Singers, Volume 1

CD / IRCC 810 (1994)

Victor Herbert: Paul's Address from Natoma

on

John McCormack

Aris, Recitals And Songs

CD / Nimbus 1782 (1994)

Victor Herbert: Paul's Address from Natoma

on

John McCormack

McCormack in Opera

CD / Nimbus 7820 (1992)

Victor Herbert: Paul's Address from Natoma

on

John McCormack

Cronology [sic] of a Voice

CD / Minerva 6 (2000)

Victor Herbert: Paul's Address from Natoma

on

Tenors

CD / Nimbus 1794 (1998)

Victor Herbert: Paul's Address from Natoma

on

John McCormack

The First Recordings: 1907-1914

CD / Enterprise/Vocal Archives 1129 (1996)

Victor Herbert: Excerpts from Natoma

on

Eastman-Dryden Orchestra/Hunsberger

Victor Herbert: The American Girl

CD / Arabesque 6561 (1992)

Victor Herbert: Excerpts from Natoma

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Slovak RSO Bratislava/Brion 2000

Victor Herbert: Columbus Suite

CD / Naxos 559027 (2000)

Carlisle Floyd: "Ain't it a pretty night" from Susannah

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Phyllis Curtin

Opera Arias

CD / VAI 1152 (1998)

Aaron Copland: Excerpts from The Tender Land

on

New York Philharmonic/Copland

A Copland Celebration, Volume 3

2 CD / Sony 89329 (2000)

Suite from The Tender Land

on

Aaron Copland

Appalachian Spring, Etc.

Boston Symphony Orchestra/Copland

CD / RCA 61505 (1993)

Suite from The Tender Land

on

Aaron Copland

Suite from the Tender Land, Etc.

Third Angle New Music Ensemble/Sidlin

CD / Koch 7403 (1997)

Excerpts from Einstein on the Beach

Excerpts from Satyagraha

Excerpts from Akhenaten

on

Philip Glass

Songs from the Trilogy

CD / Sony (1989)

David Carlson

Symphonic Sequences from Dreamkeepers

Utah Symphony/Robinson

CD / New World 80496 (1997)