Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Earnest
- Release year
- 2014
- Label
- NMC (3)
- Catalogue number
- NMC D197
- Thomas Adès’s role
- Conductor
Details and credits
Release credits: Gerald Barry; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group; Thomas Adès
Thomas Adès: conductor
Programme:
The Importance Of Being Earnest, Opera In Three Acts
Act I
1. Auld Lang Syne
2. Algernon: 'Did You Hear What I Was Playing?'
3. Lane: 'Lady Bracknell And Miss Fairfax'
4. Lady Bracknell: 'Freude, Schöner Götterfunken'
5. Jack: 'Miss Fairfax, Ever Since I Met You'
6. Lady Bracknell: 'Mister Worthing!'
7. Lady Bracknell: 'I Feel Bound To Tell You'
8. Lady Bracknell: 'Are Your Parents Living?'
9. Jack: 'What Should I Do?' (i)
10. Jack: 'What Should I Do?' (ii)
11. Jack: 'Will You Stop!!'
Act II
12. Garden At The Manor House
13. Cecily: 'I Wish Uncle Jack Would Allow'
14. Miss Prism: 'Freude, Schöner Götterfunken'
15. Algernon: 'You Are My Little Cousin Cecily'
16. Miss Prism: 'Mister Worthing!'
17. Algernon: 'He's Going To Send Me Away'
18. Algernon: 'Cecily, Ever Since I Looked'
19. Cecily: 'You Must Not Laugh At Me'
20. Merriman: 'Miss Fairfax'
21. Orchestral Interlude
22. Gwendolen: 'I Had No Idea'
23. Jack: 'And This Is What You Call Bunburying!?'
Act III
24. Orchestral Introduction
25. Gwendolen/Cecily: 'Your Christian Names'
26. Merriman: 'Lady Bracknell'
27. Lady Bracknell: 'Mister Worthing, Is Miss Cardew'
28. Lady Bracknell: 'Pretty Child!'
29. Jack: 'I Am Miss Cardew's Guardian'
30. Lady Bracknell: 'Miss Prism!'
31. Lady Bracknell: 'Twenty-Eight Years Ago'
32. Miss Prism: 'Lady Bracknell'
33. Jack: 'But Where Did You Deposit The Handbag?'
34. Chasuble: 'What Do You Think This Means'
35. Jack: 'Is This The Handbag?'
36. Jack: 'Lady Bracknell, Who Am I?'
37. All: 'Explosion!'
Credited participation:
Conductor
Compositions
No catalogue works are listed for this recording.