Actions for Sophie's choice : music from the book
Sophie's choice : music from the book
- Additional Titles
- Title from container: Music from Sophie's choice and Title from inset: Music from the book Sophie's choice
- Published
- [United States?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 2000?]
- Physical Description
- 2 audio discs ; 4 3/4 in.
- Additional Creators
- Jacobson, Knute, Styron, William, 1925-2006, Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827, Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897, Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750, Scarlatti, Domenico, 1685-1757, Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791, Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750, Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827, Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809, Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809, Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897, Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897, Clarke, Jeremiah, 1669?-1707, Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791, and Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759
- Contents
- Disc 1. 4th symphony. Adagio / Ludwig van Beethoven (Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie ; Heinrich Schiff) (8:36) -- 1st symphony. Adagio : Allegro non troppo ma con brio / Johannes Brahms (Berliner Philharmoniker ; Herbert von Karajan) (17:55) -- Orchestral suite no. 4. Bourrées 1 & 2 / Johann Sebastian Bach (English Baroque Soloists ; John Eliot Gardiner) (2:52) -- Sonata K. 13. Presto / Domenico Scarlatti (Ivo Pogorelich) (4:24) -- Concerto for violin & orchestra. Allegro ma non troppo (23:49) ; Larghetto (10:19) ; Rondo : Allegro (10:56) / Ludwig van Beethoven (Yehudi Menuhin, violin ; Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra ; David Oistrakh). and Disc 2. Sinfonia concertante. Allegro maestoso / Wolfgang A. Mozart (Cho-Liang Lin, violin ; Jaime Laredo, viola ; English Chamber Orchestra ; Raymond Leppard) (13:38) -- Cantata BWV 147. Jesus bleibet meine Freude / J.S. Bach (The Bach Ensemble ; Joshua Rifkin) (2:18) -- 6th symphony. Allegro ma non troppo / L.v. Beethoven (NDR Symphony Orchestra ; Günter Wand) (12:58) -- Cello concerto no. 1. Adagio / Franz Joseph Haydn (Jacqueline du Pré, cello ; English Chamber Orchestra ; Daniel Barenboim) (9:42) -- Die Schöpfung. Die Himmel erzählen / F.J. Haydn (Gundula Janowitz, soprano ; Fritz Wunderlich, tenor ; Walter Berry, bass ; Wiener Singverein ; Berliner Philharmoniker ; Herbert von Karajan) (4:02) -- Alto rhapsody / J. Brahms (Jessye Norman, contralto ; Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia ; Philadephia Orchestra ; Riccardo Muti) (12:20) -- Von ewiger Liebe / J. Brahms (Jessye Norman) (5:11) -- Trumpet voluntary / Henry Purcell (Maurice André, trumpet ; Academy of Saint-Martin in the Fields ; Neville Marriner) (2:43) -- Orfeo ed Euridice. Che farò senza Euridice? / Christoph Gluck (Derek Lee Ragin, alto ; Monteverdi Choir ; English Baroque Soloists ; John Eliot Gardiner) (3:54) -- Piano concerto no. 15. Andante / W.A. Mozart (Howard Shelley, piano ; London Mozart Players ; David Juritz, leader) (6:06) -- Messiah. I know that my Redeemer liveth / Georg Friedrich Handel (Karen Clift, soprano ; Boston Baroque ; Martin Pearlman) (5:02).
- Subject(s)
- Sound Characteristics
- digital
1.4 m/s - Digital File Characteristics
- audio file
CD audio - Note
- Title from disc label
CD set issued in two versions. In one, disc 2, track 4 is Franz Joseph Haydn cello concerto no. 1, movement 2, and disc 2, track 10 is W.A. Mozart's piano concerto no. 15, movement 2. In the second issue, track 4 has been replaced by concerto 2, movement 2, and track 10 has been replaced with piano concerto no. 27, movement 2.
First issue, with Haydn cello concerto no. 1 and Mozart piano concerto no. 15.
Compiled by Knute Jacobson. - Source of Acquisition
- Rare Books copy: Gift of James L.W. West III.
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