Andre Previn: Brief Encounter (2 CDs)

Andre Previn (1929-2019)

Elizabeth Futral, Nathan Gunn, Kim Josephson, Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, Patrick Summers

2 CDs

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Texte: Live recording of the world premiere, brief encounter, Houston Grand Opera. Illustration: Schwarzweißfoto von zwei Personen auf einer Brücke vor einer großen Uhr.

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Artists:: Elizabeth Futral, Nathan Gunn, Kim Josephson, Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, Patrick Summers
Label:: DGG
Year of recording ca.:: 2009
Item number:: 3880858
UPC/EAN:: 0028947793519
Release date:: 31.3.2011

Brief Encounter ist Previns zweite Oper, die hier als Live-Afnahme der Weltpremiere aus dem Jahre 2009 vorliegt.
Die Oper basiert auf dem Drehbuch von Noël Coward, das auch verfilmt wurde. Previn wird am 06. April 2011 82 Jahre alt.
Die Veröffentlichung von Brief Encounter auf der legendären 20 / 21 Serie der Deutschen Grammophon ist das Geburtstagsgeschenk des Labels an diesen ungewöhnlichen Musiker.

Disk 1 von 2 (CD)

Brief Encounter (Brief Encounter: Prolog)

1 Andantino amabile ()

Brief Encounter (Brief Encounter)

2 "Hullo - Hullo - Hullo!" ... "Quite the stranger" (Scene 1: The station refreshment room)
3 "He was very nice-looking" ... "This pain can't last" (Scene 2: A train compartment)
4 "Seven across" (Scene 3: The Jessons' sitting room)
5 "Fred, Fred - dear Fred" ... "Never forget" (Scene 3: The Jessons' sitting room)
6 Interlude ... "Please a glass of water" ..."Little bit of coal dust" (Interlude & Scene 4: The station refreshment room)
7 "It was a Thursday" ... "All my Thursdays were the same" (Scene 5: A Milford street and Eden Lock)
8 "Good Morning" ... "Are you alone?" (Scene 6: The Kardomah Café)
9 Interlude ... "We walked together up the river" (Interlude & Scene 7: Eden Lock)
10 "We walked back to the station" ... "This marriage lark" (Scene 8: The station refreshment room and platform)
11 "Doctors have dreams" (Scene 8: The station refreshment room and platform)
12 "I watched his train" ... "Imagine" (Scene 8: The station refreshment room and platform)
13 "Is that you Laura?" ... "A warning" (Scene 9: The Jessons' sitting-room)
14 "Albert Godby, how dare you?" ... "The liberty" (Scene 10: The station refreshment room and platform)
15 "I sat in the café, waiting" (Scene 10: The station refreshment room and platform)
16 "My dear, my dear, I'm sorry" ... "Next Thursday?" (Scene 10: The station refreshment room and platform)
17 "The British have always been nice to mad people" (Scene 11: An old boathouse by the river)
18 "When I was a child" (Scene 11: An old boathouse by the river)
19 "Good evening, Mrs Jesson" (Scene 12: The Jessons' bedroom)
20 "This is the face of a woman who lies" (Scene 12: The Jessons' bedroom)

Disk 2 von 2 (CD)

Brief Encounter (Brief Encounter)

1 Entr'acte ... "Five minutes" (Entr'acte & Scene 1: Outside the hospital)
2 "He took me to lunch" (Scene 2: The dining room of the Royal Hotel)
3 "We stood on the bridge at Eden Lock" (Scene 3: Eden Lock)
4 "That's your train" ... "Come with me" (Scene 4: The station platform)
5 "14 down, 6 letters" ... "Without you there's nothing" (Scene 5: The Jessons' sittting-room)
6 "Hallo!" "This is the face of the woman I love" (Scene 6: The station refreshment room)
7 "Promise me, however unhappy your are" (Scene 6: The station refreshment room)
8 "A woman is sitting in a quiet room" (Scene 7: The Jessons' sitting-room)
9 "Aren't you going to offer me another cup of tea?" ... "Time and tide" (Scene 8: The station refreshment room)
10 "Fred, Fred, oh, Fred" ... "To the end of my days" (Scene 9: The Jessons' sitting-room)