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Gordon Getty’s oeuvre spans orchestral works, song cycles, and full length operas.

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Goodbye, Mr. Chips Highlights

This EP features some of the opera’s greatest arias and scenes from the film soundtrack, including its profoundly moving finale.

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A Certain Slant of Light

Soprano Lisa Delan sings orchestrated song settings of Emily Dickinson poems by four outstanding American composers: Aaron Copland, Gordon Getty, Jake Heggie and Michael Tilson Thomas.

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An American Song Album

Soprano Melody Moore and pianist Bradley Moore present songs by American composers, including Samuel Barber, Jake Heggie, Carlisle Floyd and Gordon Getty.

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And If The Song Be Worth A Smile

Soprano Lisa Delan and pianist Kristin Pankonin perform an album of art songs by American composers William Bolcom, Gordon Getty, Jake Heggie, David Garner, John Corigliano and Luna Pearl Woolf.

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Beauty Come Dancing

Love and dance permeate this album of 11 short choral works, paying homage to the romance and elegance of the late 19th century.

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December Celebration

This holiday album features new works and arrangements by some of the greatest living American composers, including Mark Adamo, William Bolcom, John Corigliano, David Garner, Gordon Getty, Jake Heggie and Luna Pearl Woolf.

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Joan and the Bells

Soprano Lisa Delan and baritone Vladimir Chernov join the Russian National Orchestra in Gordon Getty’s cantata based on the life and death of Joan of Arc.

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Orchestral Works

Sir Neville Marriner leads the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields in an album of Gordon Getty’s works for orchestra, including his ballet “Ancestor Suite” and the overture to his opera “Plump Jack.”

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Out of the Shadows

Soprano Lisa Delan and pianist Kevin Korth bring an array of American art songs to light, many recorded for the first time, in this album of 31 songs by 10 composers of the 20th century.

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Piano Pieces

Internationally acclaimed pianist and composer Conrad Tao gives definitive performances of Gordon Getty’s piano solo works on this, his first solo album.

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Plump Jack

This concert version of Gordon Getty’s first opera features Melody Moore, Susanne Mentzer, Nikolai Schukoff and Lester Lynch. The libretto, also by Getty, is adapted from Shakespeare’s Henry IV and V and tells the story of the irresistible rogue Sir John Falstaff.

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The Canterville Ghost

Gordon Getty’s comic one-act opera is based on Oscar Wilde’s short story about a proper English ghost trying his best to scare an unflappable American family who have just settled in his haunted mansion.

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The Hours Begin to Sing

Soprano Lisa Delan and pianist Kristin Pankonin offer a second volume of art songs by American composers William Bolcom, Gordon Getty, Jake Heggie, David Garner, John Corigliano and Luna Pearl Woolf.

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The Little Match Girl

Gordon Getty’s setting of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Match Girl” headlines four large-scale works for chorus and orchestra, including a second recording of “Joan and the Bells.”

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The White Election (1998)

Soprano Kaaren Erickson and pianist Armen Guzelimian made this premiere recording of Gordon Getty’s song cycle, creating an interior life of Emily Dickinson through settings of her poetry.

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The White Election (2009)

Soprano Lisa Delan and pianist Fritz Steinegger offer a fresh interpretation of Gordon Getty’s popular cycle of 32 songs on Emily Dickinson’s poetry.

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Usher House

Gordon Getty’s second opera is loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic horror masterpiece “The Fall of the House of Usher.” In this tale of good, evil and redemption, Poe himself is part of the drama and lives to tell the story.

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Young America

Gordon Getty turns to the poetry of Stephen Vincent Benét, Edgar Allan Poe, Alfred Lord Tennyson and A. E. Housman, as well as his own original poems, for inspiration in these works for chorus and orchestra.

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