MCA Classics MCDA2-10102
CD1: The Play of Daniel
as presented at the Cloisters, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
[1] | Processional | 4'31 |
[2] | Jubilemus Regi nostro | 6'14 |
[3] | Vos Danielem quaerite | 6'11 |
[4] | Solvitur in libro Salomonis | 1'14 |
[5] | Ecce Rex Darius | 6'41 |
[6] | Rex, in eternum vive! | 2'24 |
[7] | Heu, heu, heu! | 7'36 |
[8] | Te Deum laudamus | 5'06 |
CAST | |||
Belshazzar's prince | Russell Oberlin | Belshazzar's queen | Betty Wilson |
Belshazzar | Brayton Lewis | Daniel | Charles Bressler |
Two wise men | Jerold Sien, Alan Baker | Darius | Gordon Myers |
Three envious counselors | Paul Ehrlich, Jean Hakes, | Two advisors | Alva Tripp, Jerold Sien |
Arthur Squires | |||
Habakuk | Alan Baker | an angel | Russell Oberlin |
herald angel | Russell Oberlin |
Satraps and soldiers: William Bohn and boy choristers of the Church of the Transfiguration, New York ("The Little Church Around the Corner")-Richard Zahnd, David Khouri, Edmund Cortez, George Ryan, Ronald Frers, Roland McLaren, Richard Bell - trained by Choirmaster Stuart Gardner
MUSICIANS | |||
straight trumpet | Robert Montesi | recorders | Bernard Krainis |
rebec | Paul Ehrlich | vielle | Inez Lynch |
port. organ, psaltery | Paul Maynard | ministrel's harp | Jean Hakes, Martha Blackman |
bell carilon | Martha Blackman | min. highland bagpipes | James Petrie |
percussion | George Gaber |
Recorded: January, February 1958 on Decca (Mono)
CD2: The Play of Herod
I. HEROD | ||
[1] | Opening processional, scene one | 12'03 |
[2] | Scene two | 4'37 |
[2] | Scene three | 14'45 |
[2] | Scene four | 15'48 |
II. THE SLAYING OF THE INNOCENTS | ||
[5] | Alle-, psalite, [portative organ] (the massacre takes place) | 9'57 |
[6] | Vos qui in pulvere estis | 11'56 |
[7] | Te Deum laudamus | 6'15 |
Remark: Russell Oberlin doesn't participate in this recording
Recorded: January 1964 on Decca (Stereo)