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Disc 01
Gimpel the Fool (Oper in 2 Akten) (Gesamtaufnahme)

01. "Overture (1. Akt)"

02. "Elka's death-bed scene"

03. "Gimpel's monologue"

04. "The people of Frampol"

05. "The Rabbi's advice"

06. "The Rabbi's daughter"

07. "Little march"

08. "Gimpel courts Elka"

09. "Little march (Reprise)"

10. "The wedding canopy"

11. "Badkhen's song"

12. "The wedding contract"

13. "The wedding song"

14. "Breaking the glass"

15. "A black moment"

16. "Mazel tov"

17. "After the wedding"

Disc 02

01. "Lullaby (2. Akt)"

02. "Pantomime"

03. "Bread song"

04. "Night music"

05. "Gimpel and the goat"

06. "Elka's gevalt"

07. "The divorce"

08. "Gimpel's second monologue"

09. "Little march (Reprise)"

10. "Pantomime"

11. "The evil one"

12. "Elka's ghost"

13. "Finale (1. Teil)"

14. "Finale (2. Teil)"

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Extra-Infos:

Act 1 & 2 / / W/ 3rd Angle New Music Ensemble

Description:

After finishing the work in 1980, Schiff rescued some of the music in a purely instrumental score Divertimento from Gimpel the Fool (1982), one of the great post-war chamber pieces, which is how I first heard it (available, incidentally, on Delos 3058; however, Delos has had such trouble in recent years, you'd better grab it while you can). Nevertheless, the opera is just as wonderful. There's not a dull scene in it. The singers are ideal for the piece. The ensemble is sharp (a fiendishly close canon on the words "Mazel tov" to a klezmer riff made my jaw drop). Above all, the performance involves a listener in the drama. The CD case proclaims this as part of the "American Opera Classics" series. From the Naxos marketing department, to God's ear.

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Manufacturer No.:

8669010-11

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