Martin West: Tom Sawyer: A Ballet in Three Acts – COMPACT DISCS

Title: Tom Sawyer: A Ballet in Three Acts
Artist: Martin West
Label: P.S. Classics
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 803607131623
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2013-08-27
Number of Discs: 2

PS Classics continues it’s collaboration with Tony Award winning composer-lyricist Maury Yeston (Nine: The Musical, Titanic, Death Takes a Holiday) with the premiere recording of Yeston’s Tom Sawyer – a Ballet in Three Acts, adapted from Mark Twain’s classic novel. Alastair Macaulay of the New York Times dubbed it “the first all-new, entirely American three-act ballet” and hailed the score as “energetic, robust, warm, deliberately naïve (both ornery and innocent) in ways right for Twain. Mr. Yeston’s tuneful music, with sonorities and harmonies that recall Copland, Barber and Prokofiev, ranges easily from comic to sinister, from Muff Potter’s drunkenness to a rich celebration of the Mississippi River.” Now, Martin West conducts the seventy-piece San Francisco Ballet Orchestra in this two-disc world premiere recording. Tom Sawyer – a Ballet in Three Acts is a thrilling theatrical work, and a must-have for any lover of distinctly American music.

Tracks:
1.1 Overturette, the Fence
1.2 Way Down South
1.3 Tom and the Town
1.4 Lazy Day
1.5 Off to School
1.6 In the Classroom
1.7 Tom and Becky
1.8 Huck Finn
1.9 Looking West
1.10 Games and Competitions
1.11 To the Mississippi
1.12 Pirates
1.13 Storm
1.14 Funeral and Salvation, Coda
2.1 Muff Potter – Duet for Man and Flask
2.2 A Conspiracy
2.3 Dance of the Fireflies
2.4 March of the Goblins
2.5 Ghosts
2.6 The Sprites’ Circus
2.7 The Stone Angel
2.8 A Murder
2.9 A Death
2.10 Requiem for Doc
2.11 Overture to Act 3, Looking West
2.12 The Missouri Main Street Parade
2.13 The Prosecution
2.14 Tom’s Testimony
2.15 Praise and Thanks
2.16 Pinwheels
2.17 The Picnic
2.18 Lost in the Cave
2.19 Dance of True Love
2.20 Pinwheels (Reprise)
2.21 Saved
2.22 To the Mississippi (Reprise)
2.23 The Great Mississippi