A Quiet Place - 2013 Adaptation (Chamber Orchestra Version)
- Version for Chamber Orchestra (1983/84, arr.2013)Libretto by Stephen Wadsworth; German version by Paul Esterházy (E,G), Libretto and Orchestration adapted by Garth Edwin Sunderland
Major roles: S,T,Bar,B; minor roles: M,A,2T,Bar,B; vocal quartet(SATB);
1(=picc.afl).1(=corA).3(I=Ebcl,III=bcl).1(=dbn)-2.1.1.0-perc(2)-pft(=cel)-strings(min.1.1.1.1.1 or max.4.3.3.3.1)
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Boosey & Hawkes, Sole Agent
"Bernstein moulds the text into a ductile parlando, comments on and interprets the dialogues in the orchestra – and there is one thing he can do above all: transform complex feelings into melodies that sometimes wind around in free tonality, sometimes sound blues-like, or follow other patterns. The epilogue of the first act consolidates into a touching baring of souls.”
Die Presse
Claudia Boyle / Joseph Kaiser / Gordon Bintner / Lucas Meachem / Rupert Charlesworth / aniel Belcher / Annie Rosen / Steven Humes / Maija Skille / John Tessier / OSM Chorus / Orchestre symphonique de Montréal / Kent Nagano
Decca 4833895