Barber: Vanessa / Slatkin, Graham, Brewer, Et Al

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Chandos
Release Date
October 1, 2004
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BARBER, SAMUEL
    • PERFORMER
      Wyn-Rogers, Brewer, Davies, Bbc So, Slatkin
    Product Details ⌄
    Works ⌄

    1. Introduction

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    2. Act I Scene 1: Potage creme aux perles (Erika)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Susan Graham

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    3. Act I Scene 1: No, I cannot understand why… (Vanessa)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Christine Brewer

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    4. Act I Scene 1: Must the winter come so soon? (Erika)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Susan Graham

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    5. Act I Scene 1: Listen!… they are here (Erika)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Susan Graham

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    6. Act I Scene 1: Do not utter a word, Anatol (Vanessa)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Christine Brewer

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    7. Act I Scene 1: Yes, I believe I shall love you (Anatol)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: William Burden

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    8. Act I Scene 1: Who are you? (Erika)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Susan Graham

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    9. Act I Scene 2: And then? (Baroness)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Catherine Wyn-Rogers

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    10. Act I Scene 2: No, you are not as good a skater… (Vanessa)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Christine Brewer

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    11. Act I Scene 2: Under the willow tree (Doctor)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Neal Davies

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    12. Act I Scene 2: Erika, I am so happy (Vanessa)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Christine Brewer

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    13. Act I Scene 2: Did you hear her? (Erika)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Susan Graham

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    14. Act I Scene 2: Help, help! Save me from their talk (Anatol)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: William Burden

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    15. Act I Scene 2: Outside this house the world has changed (Anatol)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: William Burden

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    16. Act I Scene 2: Hurry now! (Vanessa)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Christine Brewer

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    17. Act I Scene 2: In Morning light let us rejoice (Chorus)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    18. Act II: The Count and Countess d'Albany (Major-domo)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Simon Birchall

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    19. Act II: I should never have been a doctor (Doctor)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Neal Davies

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    20. Act II: Here you are! (Vanessa)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Christine Brewer

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    21. Act II: At last I've found you (Anatol)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: William Burden

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    22. Act II: Love has a bitter core, Vanessa (Anatol)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: William Burden

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    23. Act II: Nothing to worry about (Doctor)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Neal Davies

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    24. Act III Scene 1: Why did no one warn me? (Vanessa)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Christine Brewer

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    25. Act III Scene 1: Why must the greatest sorrows come (Vanessa)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Christine Brewer

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    26. Act III Scene 1: There, look! (Doctor)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Neal Davies

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    27. Act III Scene 1: On the path to the lake (Anatol)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: William Burden

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    28. Act III Scene 1: Anatol, tell me the truth! (Vanessa)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Christine Brewer

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    29. Act III Scene 1: Grandmother! (Erika)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Susan Graham

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    30. Act III: Intermezzo

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    31. Act III Scene 2: By the time we arrive in Paris (Anatol)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: William Burden

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    32. Act III Scene 2: For every love there is a last farewell (Doctor)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Neal Davies

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    33. Act III Scene 2: And you, my friend (Vanessa)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Christine Brewer

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    34. Act III Scene 2: Erika, before I leave, you must tell me (Vanessa)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Christine Brewer

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    35. Act III Scene 2: To leave, to break, to find, to keep (Vanessa)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Christine Brewer

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    36. Act III Scene 2: Goodbye, be happy, Aunt Vanessa (Erika)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Susan Graham

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin

    37. Act III Scene 2: No, I must never say that name again (Erika)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Susan Graham

      Conductor: Leonard Slatkin


Samuel Barber's 'Vanessa' has long been in need of reconsideration. The Pulitzer Prize-winning opera is a remarkable study of sex, delusion and disillusionment. Enthusiastically received at its start-studded premiere (the director was Gian Carlo Menotti; the designer, Cecil Baeton; the conductor, Dmitri Mitropolous and the tenor part of Anatol was taken by the young Nicolai Gedda), it sparked controversy - some reckoned that the score, undeniably influenced by Puccini and Strauss, was too European to be a model for contemporary American opera. Leonard Slatkin is one of the greatest champions of the works of Samuel Barber. He conducted an all-star concert performance of 'Vanessa' at the Barbican last year - one of the few performances of the work ever to be staged in the UK, and the only one to assemble the calibre of cast worthy of this work. It received extraordinary reviews. It was from this concert that this recording is taken.