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Gimpel The Fool, Act I: Overture. We Are Here To Tell You The Tale Of Gimpel
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Gimpel The Fool, Act I: Let Us Begin, At The Ending, 'Elka's Death-Bed Scene'
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Gimpel The Fool, Act I: So Elka Deceived Me, And I Just Believed Her, 'Gimpel's Monologue'
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Gimpel The Fool, Act I: Once We Saw How Easy It Was To Fool Gimpel...
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Gimpel The Fool, Act I: Gimpel Was So Confused..., 'The Rabbi's Advice'
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Gimpel The Fool, Act I: But Even The Rabbi's Ugly Daughter...
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Gimpel The Fool, Act I: Matchmaking For Gimpel!/Little March
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Gimpel The Fool, Act I: So That's The One!
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Gimpel The Fool, Act I: The Wedding Ceremony Took Place.../Little March (Reprise)
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Gimpel The Fool, Act I: Mi Adir Al Hakol...
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Gimpel The Fool, Act I: O Echod Mi Yodeya?, 'Badkhen's Song'
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Gimpel The Fool, Act I: Akhas Asor, Yom La Khoidesh Adar..., 'The Wedding Contract'
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Gimpel The Fool, Act I: All Day Long I Watch The Clouds, 'The Wedding Song'
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Gimpel The Fool, Act I: Sameyakh Tesamakh Reyim Hahuvim
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Gimpel The Fool, Act I: It Was A Black Moment For Gimpel
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Gimpel The Fool, Act I: Mazel Tov
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Gimpel The Fool, Act I: Elka, Don't Leave Your New Husband...
Item UPC: 730099691024
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Label: NAXOS AMERICAN
ABOUT THE ALBUM
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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