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Special offer. Schiff: Gimpel the Fool (Divertimento)

Vale Rideout (tenor), Tyler Oliphant (baritone), Thomas Glenn (tenor), D' Anna Fortunato (mezzo-soprano), Megan Besley (soprano), Alissa Mercurio (soprano), Richard Zeller (baritone), Kevin Walsh (baritone), Bryan Hunt (boy soprano), Judith Schiff (soprano)

Third Angle Ensemble, Kenneth Kiesler

Schiff: Gimpel the Fool (Divertimento)

Special offer. Schiff: Gimpel the Fool (Divertimento)

Vale Rideout (tenor), Tyler Oliphant (baritone), Thomas Glenn (tenor), D' Anna Fortunato (mezzo-soprano), Megan Besley (soprano), Alissa Mercurio (soprano), Richard Zeller (baritone), Kevin Walsh (baritone), Bryan Hunt (boy soprano), Judith Schiff (soprano)

Third Angle Ensemble, Kenneth Kiesler

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  • Release date: 29th May 2007
  • Label: Naxos
  • Series: American Classics
  • Catalogue number: 8669010-11
  • Length: 98 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Schiff: Gimpel the Fool
Work length1:38:41
  • Vale Rideout (tenor), Tyler Oliphant (baritone), Thomas Glenn (tenor), D' Anna Fortunato (mezzo-soprano), Megan Besley (soprano), Alissa Mercurio (soprano), Richard Zeller (baritone), Kevin Walsh (baritone), Bryan Hunt (boy soprano), Judith Schiff (soprano)
  • Third Angle Ensemble
  • Kenneth Kiesler
  • Recorded: 3-4 June 2003
  • Recording Venue: Kaul Auditorium, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA
Act I: Overture: We are here to tell you the tale of Gimpel (Badkhen)
Track length2:28
Act I: Let us begin, at the ending (Badkhen, Elka, Gimpel), "Elka's Death-Bed Scene"
Track length4:22
Act I: So Elka deceived me, and I just believed her (Gimpel, Badkhen, Townspeople), "Gimpel's Monologue"
Track length4:03
Act I: Once we saw how easy it was to fool Gimpel… (Badkhen, Townspeople, Gimpel)
Track length9:37
Act I: Gimpel was so confused… (Badkhen, Rabbi), "The Rabbi's Advice"
Track length1:55
Act I: But even the Rabbi's ugly daughter… (Badkhen, Rabbi's Daughter, Rabbi, Gimpel)
Track length1:08
Act I: Matchmaking for Gimpel! (Badkhen) - Little March
Track length1:17
Act I: So that's the one! (Elka, Gimpel, Badkhen, Rabbi)
Track length5:00
Act I: The wedding ceremony took place… (Badkhen) - Little March (reprise)
Track length1:09
Act I: Mi adir al hakol… (Rabbi)
Track length2:00
Act I: O echod mi yodeya? (Badkhen, Townspeople, Rabbi), "Badkhen's Song"
Track length4:44
Act I: Akhas asor, yom la khoidesh adar… (Rabbi, Badkhen), "The Wedding Contract"
Track length1:00
Act I: All day long I watch the clouds (Yetta, Wolf-Leib), "The Wedding Song"
Track length4:46
Act I: Sameyakh tesamakh reyim hahuvim (Rabbi)
Track length0:58
Act I: It was a black moment for Gimpel (Badkhen, Gimpel)
Track length4:13
Act I: Mazel Tov (all)
Track length2:17
Act I: Elka, don't leave your new husband… (Gimpel, Elka, Badkhen)
Track length1:48
Act II: Four months after the wedding…, (Badkhen, Gimpel, Elka, Rabbi) - Lullaby
Track length4:09
Act II: But what was the connection between Elka and Eve? (Badkhen) - Pantomime
Track length1:44
Act II: Out of love to my wife… (Gimpel), "Bread Song"
Track length3:34
Act II: Night Music
Track length2:25
Act II: O I forgot to tell you about my goat (Gimpel, Goat) - Where is the lad? (Gimpel, Elka)
Track length2:08
Act II: May all the dreams I've dreamed tonight… (Elka, Townspeople, Gimpel), "Elka's Gevalt"
Track length1:30
Act II: Gimpel had no choice… (Badkhen, Gimpel, Townspeople, Elka, Rabbi), "The Divorce"
Track length3:02
Act II: I should have gotten angry (Gimpel, Badkhen), "Gimpel's Second Monologue"
Track length1:29
Act II: Little March (reprise) - Gimpel, you're not fair to Elka (Townspeople, Gimpel, Rabbi)
Track length2:53
Act II: And if Maimonides says it's kosher! (Gimpel, Badkhen) - Pantomime - Now listen Gimpel… (Elka, Gimpel), "Elka's Death-Bed Scene" (continued)
Track length2:58
Act II: One night as he lay asleep in the bakery… (Badkhen, Evil One, Gimpel)
Track length5:01
Act II: Gimpel, what have you done now? (Elka's Ghost, Gimpel)
Track length4:23
Act II: Finale: Heeding Elka's words, Gimpel dug a hole in the ground… (Badkhen, Gimpel, Townspeople, Boy)
Track length4:31
Act II: Finale (continued): You always tell the same stories (Boy, Gimpel, Elka, Badkhen)
Track length6:09
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