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Special offer. Menotti: The Medium & The Telephone

Recorded in New York, Oct 1947

Marilyn Cotlow (Lucy) & Frank Rogier (Ben), Evelyn Keller (Monica), Marie Powers (Madame Flora (Baba)), Beverly Dame (Mrs Gobineau), Frank Rogier (Mr Gobineau) & Catherine Mastice (Mrs Nolan)

Orchestra, Emanuel Balaban

Menotti: The Medium & The Telephone
Celebrated Broadway double-bill of melodramatic tragedy and domestic comedy, the latter stolen by sparkling coloratura of soprano Marilyn Cotlow

BBC Music Magazine, October 20114 out of 5 stars

Special offer. Menotti: The Medium & The Telephone

Recorded in New York, Oct 1947

Marilyn Cotlow (Lucy) & Frank Rogier (Ben), Evelyn Keller (Monica), Marie Powers (Madame Flora (Baba)), Beverly Dame (Mrs Gobineau), Frank Rogier (Mr Gobineau) & Catherine Mastice (Mrs Nolan)

Orchestra, Emanuel Balaban

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Celebrated Broadway double-bill of melodramatic tragedy and domestic comedy, the latter stolen by sparkling coloratura of soprano Marilyn Cotlow

BBC Music Magazine, October 20114 out of 5 stars

About

The pairing of the comic opera The Telephone with the sinister music-drama The Medium proved to be a big hit for composer Gian Carlo Menotti when they opened together on Broadway in 1947. The double bill ran for over 200 performances, and enjoyed similar success in London during 1948. This original 1947 cast recording of The Medium, made by the American Columbia company, was first released in the UK in 1961, when The Gramophone wrote enthusiastically “its effectiveness as a musical work for the stage is beyond argument”.

Reissue Producer and Engineer: Mark Obert-Thorn

  • Release date: 28th Mar 2011
  • Label: Naxos
  • Series: Historical
  • Catalogue number: 8111370
  • Length: 77 minutes
  • Genre:

Contents and tracklist

Menotti: The Medium, Act I
Work length26:40
  • Evelyn Keller, Marie Powers, Beverly Dame, Frank Rogier, Catherine Mastice
  • Emanuel Balaban
Introduction
Track length1:49
Where, oh, where (Monica)
Track length2:00
How many times I've told you not to touch my things! (Baba, Monica)
Track length2:31
Good evening, Madame Flora (Mrs. Gobineau, Mr. Gobineau, Baba, Mrs. Nolan)
Track length1:53
It happened long ago (Mrs. Gobineau, Mr. Gobineau, Baba)
Track length2:19
You must be very silent (Mr. Gobineau, Baba, Monica, Mrs. Nolan)
Track length1:40
Mother, mother, Are you there? (Monica, Mr. Gobineau, Mrs. Nolan, Mrs. Gobineau)
Track length5:42
What Is It? Who Is It? (Baba, Mr. Gobineau, Mrs. Gobineau, Mrs. Nolan)
Track length1:50
Baba, what has happened? (Monica, Baba)
Track length2:28
The sun has fallen and It lies in blood (Monica, Baba)
Track length4:28
Menotti: The Medium, Act II
Work length28:41
  • Evelyn Keller, Marie Powers, Beverly Dame, Frank Rogier, Catherine Mastice
  • Emanuel Balaban
Introduction
Track length1:55
Bravo! (Monica)
Track length2:13
Monica, Monica, can't you see (Monica)
Track length2:53
Where Is Monica? (Baba)
Track length5:50
Good evening, Madame Flora (Mrs. Gobineau, Mrs. Nolan, Mr. Gobineau, Monica)
Track length5:00
Don't stand there like a fool! (Baba, a Voice)
Track length1:47
Afraid, am I afraid? (Baba)
Track length5:03
Who's there? Who's there? (Baba, Monica)
Track length4:00
Menotti: The Telephone
Work length22:01
  • Marilyn Cotlow, Frank Rogier
  • Emanuel Balaban
Introduction
Track length2:09
Oh! Just what I wanted (Lucy, Ben)
Track length4:59
That was Margaret (Lucy, Ben)
Track length1:20
It Is four-fifteen (Lucy, Ben)
Track length2:17
Try again and again (Ben, Lucy)
Track length2:42
Hello, This Is Lucy (Lucy, Ben)
Track length5:31
Hello? … Hello? (Lucy, Ben)
Track length3:03

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October 2011

Celebrated Broadway double-bill of melodramatic tragedy and domestic comedy, the latter stolen by sparkling coloratura of soprano Marilyn Cotlow
4 out of 5 stars
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