5023363019729

Gerald Barry: The Importance Of Being Earnest

Barbara Hannigan; Peter Tantsits; Joshua Bloom; Katalin Károlyi; Bcmg; Thomas Ades

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Format: CD

Cat No: NMCD197

Release Date:  22 September 2014

Label:  NMC Recordings

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5023363019729

Genres:  Classical  Opera  

  • Description

    Gerald Barry's riotous opera brings out the savagery beneath the genteel Edwardian manners of Wilde's play: its score includes gunshots, whistling and speaking from the orchestral players, marching boots, and the smashing of 40 dinner plates, while its characters - among them Lady Bracknell sung by bass Alan Ewing - shout through gales, quote Schiller's Ode to Joy (in German) and make polite conversation through megaphones.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act I Auld Lang Syne
      • 2. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act I Algernon - ‘Did you hear what I was playing?’
      • 3. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act I Lane - ‘Lady Bracknell and Miss Fairfax’
      • 4. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act I Lady Bracknell - ‘Freude, schöner Götterfunken’
      • 5. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act I Jack - ‘Miss Fairfax, ever since I met you’
      • 6. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act I Lady Bracknell - ‘Mister Worthing!’
      • 7. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act I Lady Bracknell - ‘I feel bound to tell you’
      • 8. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act I Lady Bracknell - ‘Are your parents living?’
      • 9. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act I Jack - ‘What should I do?’ (i)
      • 10. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act I Jack - ‘What should I do?’ (ii)
      • 11. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act I Jack - ‘Will you stop!!’
      • 12. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act II Garden at the Manor House
      • 13. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act II Cecily - ‘I wish Uncle Jack would allow’
      • 14. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act II Miss Prism - ‘Freude, schöner Götterfunken’
      • 15. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act II Algernon - ‘You are my little cousin Cecily’
      • 16. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act II Miss Prism - ‘Mister Worthing!’
      • 17. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act II Algernon - ‘He’s going to send me away’
      • 18. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act II Algernon - ‘Cecily, ever since I looked’
      • 19. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act II Cecily - ‘You must not laugh at me’
      • 20. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act II Merriman - ‘Miss Fairfax’
      • 21. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act II Orchestral Interlude
      • 22. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act II Gwendolen - ‘I had no idea’
      • 23. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act II Jack - ‘And this is what you call Bunburying!?’
      • 24. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act III Orchestral Introduction
      • 25. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act III Gwendolen/Cecily - ‘Your Christian names’
      • 26. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act III Merriman - ‘Lady Bracknell’
      • 27. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act III Lady Bracknell - ‘Mister Worthing, is Miss Cardew’
      • 28. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act III Lady Bracknell - ‘Pretty child!’
      • 29. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act III Jack - ‘I am Miss Cardew’s guardian’
      • 30. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act III Lady Bracknell - ‘Miss Prism!’
      • 31. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act III Lady Bracknell - ‘Twenty-eight years ago’
      • 32. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act III Miss Prism - ‘Lady Bracknell’
      • 33. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act III Jack - ‘But where did you deposit the handbag?’
      • 34. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act III Chasuble - ‘What do you think this means’
      • 35. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act III Jack - ‘Is this the handbag?’
      • 36. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act III Jack - ‘Lady Bracknell, who am I?’
      • 37. Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Ernest - Act III All - ‘Explosion!’