Wuthering Heights suite - premiere recording
Echoes - version for string orchestra - premiere recording
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The Minnessota Opera’s 2011 production of Wuthering Heights will be streamed online in October 2020.
For more details see here:
https://mnopera.org/season/fall-season/wuthering-heights/
Charissa Hutchins will stage a large extract from the epic adaptation of Emily Bronte’s famous novel in Haworth this spring.
She and her team of young professional opera singers are focusing on the final act of Bernard Herrmann’s 1951 work.
Opera by Bernard Hermann
Libretto by Lucille Fletcher from the novel by Emily Brontë
English Language with German subtitles
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Bernard Herrmann - Suite from "Wuthering Heights"
Bernard Herrmann - Taxi Driver
Bernard Herrmann - Psycho
Bernard Herrmann - Marnie
and more.
Introduction
New York born Bernard Herrmann had a long relationship with Britain, especially London, which he made his second home in 1961 and primary residence in 1964 after he seperated from his second wife Lucy Anderson.
3-CD recording of the live concert.
Arranged for Brass Quintet.
EUROPEAN CONCERT PREMIERE Laura AIKIN, soprano : Catherine Earnshaw Rodney GILFRY, baritone : Heathcliff Vincent LE TEXIER, baritone : Hindley Earnshaw Hanna SCHAER, mezzo-soprano : Nelly Linton Yves SAELENS, tenor : Edgar Linton Marianne CREBASSA, mezzo-soprano .
Excerpts from Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann Nicolai: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor Delibes: Lakme Rossini: La Cenerentola Donizetti: Don Pasquale Moore: The Ballad of Baby Doe Floyd: Susannah Mechem: Tartuffe Bernstein: Trouble in Tahiti Herrmann: Wuthering Heights.
Miss Julie : Midsummer night (Alwyn). The Nightingale : Nightingale aria (Stravinsky) Troilus and Cressida : At the haunted end of the day (Walton) Susannah : The trees on the mountains (Floyd) Rusalka : Song to the moon (Dvorak) Peter Grimes : Embroidery aria (Britten) Merry Widow .
PLEASE NOTE: THE CONCERT WAS SADLY CANCELLED DUE TO SEVERE WEATHER CONDITIONS Schoenberg: Accompaniment to a Film Scene Herrmann: Melodram - La Belle Dame Sans Merci Herrmann: Psycho - A Narrative for String Orchestra Herrmann.
Schoenberg | Accompaniment to a Film Score Herrmann | Three Melodrams: A Shropshire Lad, Annabelle Lee, TBA (concert premieres) Herrmann | Sinfonietta for String Orchestra Herrmann | Suite from Psycho Herrmann | Excerpts from Wuthering Heights (New York premiere).
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Thursday, February 15th, 2001, the Eos Orchestra under the direction of Jonathan Sheffer presented a concert entitled Bernard Herrmann: More than the Movies . The event took place in the Concert Hall at the Ethical Culture Society, 2 West 64th Street, New York City.
Battle of Neretva
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
Cape Fear
Citizen Kane
Crime Classics
Currier and Ives
Echoes
Endless Night
Fahrenheit 451
Five Fingers
For the Fallen
Garden of Evil
Hangover Square
Jane Eyre
Jason and the Argonauts
Journey to the Center of the Earth
King of the Khyber Rifles
Marnie
Moby Dick
Mysterious Island
North by Northwest
Obsession
On Dangerous Ground
Prince of Players
Psycho
Sisters
Souvenirs de Voyage
Taxi Driver
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
The Birds
The Bride Wore Black
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Devil and Daniel Webster
The Egyptian
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
The Three Worlds of Gulliver
The Trouble with Harry
The Twilight Zone
Torn Curtain
Twisted Nerve
Vertigo
White Witch Doctor
Wuthering Heights