[no1maestro]

For most of my life I have been waiting to hear a good, complete recording of Howard Hanson's Merry Mount. It was a "rave" at it's Met debut in 1934 but had all but disappeared in my lifetime save but for parts of poor recordings. Gerard Schwarz/Seattle now has a Naxos 2CD set out for a reasonable price. I finally got to listen to the whole thing today and just loved it.

Many folks are familiar with the suite but not the whole opera. It's not perfect and not for everyone's taste but if you love Hanson as I do you will love it.

[Rob Babcock]

Excellent!  Can you give me the SKU#?  I'd love to pick that one up.  Love HH!

[jzexport]

For most of my life I have been waiting to hear a good, complete recording of Howard Hanson's Merry Mount. It was a "rave" at it's Met debut in 1934 but had all but disappeared in my lifetime save but for parts of poor recordings. Gerard Schwarz/Seattle now has a Naxos 2CD set out for a reasonable price. I finally got to listen to the whole thing today and just loved it.

Many folks are familiar with the suite but not the whole opera. It's not perfect and not for everyone's taste but if you love Hanson as I do you will love it.

Didn't even know he had written an opera. Will have to check it out. Thanks.

[no1maestro]

The identification is as folllows:

Naxos 8.669012-13  Hanson Merry Mount   Gerard Schwarz  Seattle Sym.

As I said, if you love Hanson you will find this very interesting!