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Nathaniel Hackmann (Curly), Sierra Boggess (Laurey), Rodney Earl Clarke (Jud Fry), Jamie Parker (Will Parker), Louise Dearman (Ado Annie), Sandra Marvin (Aunt Eller), Nadim Naaman (Ali Hakim), Leo Roberts (Andrew Carnes), Oklahoma! Ensemble, Sinfonia of London, John Wilson

Wilson, who conducted Oklahoma! at the BBC Proms in 2017, proves an exceptional advocate, bringing to the piece the same expertise and mastery he would accord to the symphonic repertoire of which... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 15th Sep 2023
Catalogue No: CHSA5322(2)
Label: Chandos
Length: 99 minutes

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Nathaniel Hackmann, Sierra Boggess, Rodney Earl Clarke, Jamie Parker, Louise Dearman, Sandra Marvin, Nadim Naaman, Leo Roberts, Oklahoma! Ensemble
Sinfonia of London
John Wilson

Overture

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No. 1, Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'

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No. 2, Laurey's Entrance

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No. 3, The Surrey with the Fringe on Top

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No. 4, Kansas City

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No. 6, I Cain't Say No!

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No. 9, Many a New Day

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No. 10, Many a New Day (Dance and Reprise)

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No. 11, It's a Scandal! It's a Outrage!

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No. 12, People Will Say We're in Love

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No. 14, Pore Jud is Daid

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No. 15, Lonely Room

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No. 16, Change of Scene

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No. 17a, Dream Sequence Melos

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No. 17b, Dream Sequence Out of My Dreams

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No. 19, The Farmer and the Cowman

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No. 22, All er Nothin'

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No. 24, People Will Say We're in Love (Reprise)

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Nos. 25 & 26, Change of Scene

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No. 27, Oklahoma

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No. 28, Oklahoma (Encore)

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No. 29, Finale Ultimo: Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' / People Will Say We're in Love

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No. 30, Exit Music

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Recording of the Week, John Wilson conducts Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!

15th September 2023

A true labour of love for the conductor, John Wilson and Sinfonia of London's latest project presents the premiere complete recording of the first collaboration between the legendary partnership of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.

Interview, John Wilson on Oklahoma!

7th September 2023

In the run-up to the release of his new recording of Rodgers & Hammerstein's first musical, the conductor explains how a chance encounter with the piece at the age of fourteen changed his life - and why he considers it to be 'the Marriage of Figaro of the twentieth century'.

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! was first performed in 1943, and was a significant turning point in the history of musical theatre. It was the first musical to put drama and plot to the fore, portrayed by rounded, believable characters. It swept aside traditions that had their roots in vaudeville – star turns, comic sketches, and endless lines of high-kicking chorus girls. Oklahoma! does feature dance, but in the hands of the choreographer, Agnes de Mille, this was idiomatic to the plot, and revolutionary in terms of the fifteen minute dream-sequence ballet at the close of Act I. The first collaboration between composer and writer, the show was a hit, running for more than five years on Broadway, and paving the way for their masterpieces to come. John Wilson’s long-held fascination for researching original musical theatre scores of this period and bringing them anew to modern audiences reaches a milestone with this world première recording of the original score in its entirety (no cuts) and in the original orchestrations for twenty-nine-piece orchestra made by Robert Russell Bennett for the original production. His outstanding cast features Nathaniel Hackmann, Sierra Boggess, Jamie Parker, Louise Dearman, Sandra Marvin, Rodney Earl Clarke, Nadim Naaman, and Leo Roberts, ably supported by the ‘Oklahoma!’ Ensemble – twenty-two artists drawn from London’s West End. Wilson comments: ‘I love the connective tissue of the piece, the scenechange music, the ballet, the songs that sometimes get cut, the underscoring. And when so many vastly different new versions are appearing on stage, it’s more important than ever that we have a document of the actual source material.’ Recorded in Surround Sound and Dolby Atmos, the work will be released on double Hybrid SACD and in spatial audio. There will also be a limited edition (1,000 copies) double-vinyl release.

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November 2023

Wilson, who conducted Oklahoma! at the BBC Proms in 2017, proves an exceptional advocate, bringing to the piece the same expertise and mastery he would accord to the symphonic repertoire of which he has become an equally admired interpreter...An essential set for fans of the piece.

Listen to the many other recordings of Oklahoma!, most of them drawn from Broadway and West End theatre productions, and it comes as a shock to realise how far they have strayed from the period sound and style. After them, Wilson and his Sinfonia of London feel indisputably right...
for the sound of Broadway in the 1940s, this recording has the field to itself.

October 2023

Honestly, listening to John Wilson’s super-stylish recreation is like setting the time machine to March 31, 1943, and taking your seat in the St James Theatre just as the overture is about to strike up.

15th September 2023

Wilson restores the original orchestration by Robert Russell Bennett, utilising an ensemble of just twenty-nine players. While this is an ideal size for balancing with the singers, there's never a sense that the orchestra is too small, with Bennett's instrumentation opening up a whole range of colours and sonorities..Vocally, too, it all works wonderfully: Wilson explains how he cast voices that could act through song, and it's remarkable how much the drama spring to life even without the visuals.

13th September 2023

how pleasant it is to experience a musical in which vocalists and orchestra are clearly audible and equably balanced; exactly the experience presently lost in the theatre through amplification and singers who have not been trained to project.

Limelight Magazine 25th September 2023

Yes, historically informed performance has come to Broadway, and it couldn’t be hipper.

Yorkshire Times 15th September 2023

What more could anyone ask for? The great John Wilson, conducting with an orchestral arrangement that is lush but stays on the right side of sentimentality, and Sierra Boggess, whose voice could melt the rivets out of battleships.

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