John Harbison: The Great Gatsby Suite (Albany Symphony Orchestra)
Orchestral music from John Harbison’s opera of the novel.
An opera composer has already set this novel to music. Hear the orchestra without the singers.
Music is how you take in a story, and you want something other than a soundtrack.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: music from Harbison’s opera of the novel, played by an orchestra.
Changes: the words, which are gone. The suite is instrumental; the album adds two other Harbison works.
Instrumental music from Harbison’s opera of the novel, with two other Harbison works, Darkbloom and Closer to My Own Life. David Alan Miller conducts the Albany Symphony Orchestra.
Whose story is it?
the orchestra’s.
How much time does it ask?
One album from Albany Records (TROY1545, 2005): David Alan Miller conducts the Albany Symphony Orchestra.
Albany Records: The Great Gatsby Suite, instrumental music from Harbison’s opera, with Darkbloom: Overture for an imagined opera and Closer to My Own Life.
Where to find it
Other ways to get it: Albany Records’ page
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