Schiff / Third Angel New Music Ensemble / Keisler: Gimpel the Fool

Kenneth Kiesler: Gimpel the Fool - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Gimpel the Fool

Artist:

Kenneth Kiesler

Label:

Naxos American

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

730099691024

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2007-05-29

Number of Discs:

1

After finishing the work in 1980, Schiff rescued some of the music in a purely instrumental score Divertimento from Gimpel the Fool (1982), one of the great post-war chamber pieces, which is how I first heard it (available, incidentally, on Delos 3058; however, Delos has had such trouble in recent years, you'd better grab it while you can). Nevertheless, the opera is just as wonderful. There's not a dull scene in it. The singers are ideal for the piece. The ensemble is sharp (a fiendishly close canon on the words "Mazel tov" to a klezmer riff made my jaw drop). Above all, the performance involves a listener in the drama. The CD case proclaims this as part of the "American Opera Classics" series. From the Naxos marketing department, to God's ear.
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