Playing time: 40' 28"
Performers:
New York Pro Musica
Cast: Russell Oberlin (Belshazzar's Prince / An Angel /
Herald Angel), Brayton Lewis (Belshazzar), Jerold Sien (First Wise
Woman), Alan Baker (Second Wise Woman), Paul Ehrlich (First Envious
Counsellor), Jean Hakes (Second Envious Counsellor), Arthur Squires
(Third Envious Counsellor), Alan Baker (Habakkuk), Betty Wilson
(Belshazzar's Queen), Charles Bressler (Daniel), Gordon Myers
(Darius), Alva Tripp (First Advisor), Jerold Sien (Second Advisor).
Satraps and Soldiers: William Bohm & Boy choristers
of Church of the Transfiguration, New York:(The Little Church Around
the Corner): Richard Zahnd, David Kouri, Edmund Cortez, George
Ryan, Ronald Frers, Ronald McLaren, Richard Bell
Stuart Gardner, choirmaster
Musicians: Robert Montesi (straight trumpet), Paul Ehrlich
(rebec), Paul Maynard (portative organ, psaltery), Martha Blackman
(bell carillon, minstrel's harp), George Gaber (percussion), Bernard
Krainis (recorders), Inez Lynch (vielle), Jean Hakes (minstrel's
harp), James Petrie (miniature highland bagpipes).
Noah Greenberg, dir.
Recording site and date:
The Cloisters, New York, NY, USA [01-02/1958];
Rel.: August 1958
Compilation:
MCAD2-10102 [CD] The Play of Daniel
– The Play of Herod
Excerpts:
[8] Horizon DL 34 541 [LP] Music for a
Medieval Day: Music of the cloister, cathedral, court, marketplace,
and countryside
Comments:
Information from recordings (Decca LP & MCA CD), BN-Opale
and James Gollin (from his book "Pied Piper, the many lives
of Noah Greenberg", Pendragon, 2001).
Although the first recording of this medieval play, it is one of
the most delightful I have ever heard, full of life.
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Pierre-F. Roberge