Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Music
MusicMusic Recording
Author Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869.

Title Les nuits d'été / Berlioz. Arias / Handel.

Publication Info. [San Francisco, Calif.] : Philharmonia Baroque, [2011]
℗2011

Item Status

Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Talbott Media  CD 19875    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium 4 3/4 in.
Description digital
optical
1.4 m/s
digital recording
Note The 1st work a song cycle (acc. originally for piano).
Text of the 1st work by Théophile Gautier.
Performer Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, mezzo-soprano ; Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra ; Nicholas McGegan, conductor.
Event Recorded in performance Oct. 19,1991 and Nov. 11-12, 1995, First Congregational Church, Berkeley, Calif.
Note Compact disc.
Program notes by Scott Foglesong and Nicholas McGegan and biographical notes on the performers in English, and texts in French with English and German translations and in Italian with English, French, and German translations (31 p. : ports.) bound in container.
Contents Les nuits d'été : op. 7 / Hector Berlioz (31:17) -- Giulio Cesare. Figlio non è : L'angue offeso mai riposa (7:00) ; Ottone. Ben a raggion : Vieni, o figlio, e mi consola (9:00) ; Arianna. Mirami altero in volto (3:55) ; Giulio Cesare. La giustizia ha già sull'arco (4:33) ; Radamisto. Ombra cara di mia sposa (9:00) ; Agrippina. Ogni vento, ch'al porto lo spinga (5:18) ; Radamisto. Qual nave smarrita : (A section only) (3:17) / George Frideric Handel.
Summary The late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson is showcased in a live recording of Berlioz's Les nuits d'été from 1995 and a 1991 recording of arias from several Handel operas including Radamisto and Agrippina.
Language Sung in French (Berlioz) and Italian (Handel).
Subject Gautier, Théophile, 1811-1872 -- Musical settings.
Gautier, Théophile, 1811-1872.
Genre/Form Musical settings.
Song cycles.
Song cycles.
Subject Songs (Medium voice) with orchestra.
Songs (Medium voice) with orchestra.
Operas -- Excerpts.
Operas -- Excerpts.
Genre/Form Sound recordings.
Sound recordings.
Musical settings.
Excerpts.
Excerpts.
Added Author Gautier, Théophile, 1811-1872.
Hunt Lieberson, Lorraine, 1954-2006, singer.
McGegan, Nicholas, conductor.
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Giulio Cesare. Angue offeso mai riposa.
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Ottone. Vieni, o figlio!
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Arianna in Creta. Mirami, altero in volto.
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Giulio Cesare. Giustizia ha già sull'arco.
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Radamisto, HWV 12a. Ombra cara.
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Agrippina. Ogni vento.
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Radamisto, HWV 12a. Qual nave smarrita.
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, performer.
Added Title Nuits d'été; https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81003167 arranged
Standard No. 852188003010
Music No. PBP-01 Philharmonia Baroque