Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! (Complete original score) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! (Complete original score) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:39:43 minutes | 1,84 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! was first performed in 1943, and was a significant turning point in the history of musical theatre. It was the first musical to put drama and plot to the fore, portrayed by rounded, believable characters. It swept aside traditions that had their roots in vaudeville – star turns, comic sketches, and endless lines of high-kicking chorus girls. Oklahoma! does feature dance, but in the hands of the choreographer, Agnes de Mille, this was idiomatic to the plot, and revolutionary in terms of the fifteen-minute dream-sequence ballet at the close of Act I. The first collaboration between composer and writer, the show was a hit, running for more than five years on Broadway, and paving the way for their masterpieces to come.

John Wilson’s long-held fascination for researching original musical theatre scores of this period and bringing them anew to modern audiences reaches a milestone with this world première recording of the original score in its entirety (no cuts) and in the original orchestrations for twenty-nine-piece orchestra made by Robert Russell Bennett for the original production. His outstanding cast features Nathaniel Hackmann, Sierra Boggess, Jamie Parker, Louise Dearman, Sandra Marvin, Rodney Earl Clarke, Nadim Naaman, and Leo Roberts, ably supported by the ‘Oklahoma!’ Ensemble – twenty-two artists drawn from London’s West End. Wilson comments: ‘I love the connective tissue of the piece, the scene-change music, the ballet, the songs that sometimes get cut, the underscoring. And when so many vastly different new versions are appearing on stage, it’s more important than ever that we have a document of the actual source material.’

Tracklist:
01. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!: Overture (05:18)
02. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 1: No. 1, Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’ (03:19)
03. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 1: No. 2, Laurey’s Entrance (00:26)
04. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 1: No. 3, The Surrey with the Fringe on Top (06:04)
05. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 1: No. 4, Kansas City (05:23)
06. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 1: No. 5, The Surrey with the Fringe on Top (Reprise) (00:59)
07. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 1: No. 6, I Cain’t Say No! (03:11)
08. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 1: No. 7, I Cain’t Say No! (Encore) (00:57)
09. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 1: No. 8, Entrance of Ensemble (00:58)
10. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 1: No. 9, Many a New Day (03:06)
11. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 1: No. 10, Many a New Day (Dance and Reprise) (03:48)
12. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 1: No. 11, It’s a Scandal! It’s a Outrage! (03:25)
13. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 1: No. 12, People Will Say We’re in Love (05:55)
14. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 1: No. 13, Change of Scene (02:26)
15. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 1: No. 14, Pore Jud is Daid (05:07)
16. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 1: No. 15, Lonely Room (02:41)
17. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 1: No. 16, Change of Scene (01:46)
18. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 1: No. 17a, Dream Sequence Melos (00:42)
19. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 1: No. 17b, Dream Sequence Out of My Dreams (02:31)
20. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 1: No. 17c, Dream Sequence Interlude to Ballet (00:15)
21. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 1: No. 17d, Dream Sequence Dream Ballet (13:28)
22. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!: No. 18, Entr’acte (02:34)
23. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 2: No. 19, The Farmer and the Cowman (04:22)
24. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 2: No. 20, Farmer Dance (02:10)
25. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 2: No. 21, Change of Scene (00:29)
26. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 2: No. 22, All er Nothin’ (05:15)
27. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 2: No. 23, Change of Scene (00:30)
28. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 2: No. 24, People Will Say We’re in Love (Reprise) (01:34)
29. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 2: Nos. 25 & 26, Change of Scene (02:11)
30. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 2: No. 27, Oklahoma (03:17)
31. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 2: No. 28, Oklahoma (Encore) (01:07)
32. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Act 2: No. 29, Finale Ultimo: Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’ / People Will Say We’re in Love (01:53)
33. Sinfonia of London & John Wilson – Rodgers: Oklahoma!: No. 30, Exit Music (02:20)

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