Epiphany

From high atop beautiful downtown Three Points, Arizona, it's time once again for Sadko's World of Music. This week we feature the work of composer Gian Carlo  Menotti . Gian Carlo Menotti (July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. He wrote the classic Christmas opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, among about two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular taste. He won the Pulitzer Prize for two of them: The Consul (1950) and The Saint of Bleecker Street (1955). He founded the noted Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of the Two Worlds) in 1958 and its American counterpart, Spoleto Festival USA, in 1977. In 1986 he commenced a Melbourne Spoleto Festival in Australia, but he withdrew after three years.
Amahl and the night visitors RCA Victor [1964] Cast of the NBC Opera Company,
December 1963 television production, with Kurt Yaghjian, boy soprano, as Amahl; Herbert Grossman, conductor.
It was commissioned by NBC and first performed by the NBC Opera Theatre on December 24, 1951, in New York City at NBC studio 8H in Rockefeller Center, where it was broadcast live on television as the debut production of the Hallmark Hall of Fame. It was the first opera specifically composed for television in America.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra – Epiphany– Night Castle
Arturo Toscanini – Roman Festivals: Epiphany Ottorino  Respighi – Italian Orchestral Music
Tallis Scholars – Plainchant: Antiphon for First Vespers, Epiphany Nicholas Gombert (c.1495-c.1560) – Nicolas Gombert: Magnificats 5-8
For my true love. Capitol [1958] songs by Falla, Fauré, Dowland, Mignone, Ovalle, J. P. Martini, A. Scarlatti, and J. S. Bach, principally with guitar acc., and lute selections from works by Dowland, R. de Visée, V. Galilei, and J. S. Bach. Salli Terri, mezzo-soprano; Laurindo Almeida, guitar; Martin Ruderman, flute.
Liebermann, Rolf, 1910- Concerto for jazz band and symphony orchestra. RCA Victor[1955] Sauter-Finegan Orchestra; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, conductor.