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SCHIFF, D.: Gimpel the Fool

SCHIFF, D.: Gimpel the Fool

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After finishing the work in 1980, Schiff rescued some of the music in a purely instrumental score Divertimento from Gimpel the Fool (1982), one of the great post-war chamber pieces, which is how I first heard it (available, incidentally, on Delos 3058; however, Delos has had such trouble in recent years, you'd better grab it while you can). Nevertheless, the opera is just as wonderful. There's not a dull scene in it. The singers are ideal for the piece. The ensemble is sharp (a fiendishly close canon on the words "Mazel tov" to a klezmer riff made my jaw drop). Above all, the performance involves a listener in the drama. The CD case proclaims this as part of the "American Opera Classics" series. From the Naxos marketing department, to God's ear.
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Product Description:


  • Release Date: May 29, 2007


  • UPC: 730099691024


  • Catalog Number: 8669010-11


  • Label: Naxos


  • Number of Discs: 2


  • Composer: David, Schiff


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Third Angle New Music Ensemble


  • Performer: Ken Keisler