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Rodgers & Hammerstein: Oklahoma!

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

Rodgers & Hammerstein: Oklahoma!

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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...

BBC Music Magazine, November 20235 out of 5 stars

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Rodgers & Hammerstein: Oklahoma!

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

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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...

BBC Music Magazine, November 20235 out of 5 stars

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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.

  • Release date: 15th Sep 2023
  • Label: Chandos
  • Catalogue number: CHSA5322(2)
  • Length: 99 minutes
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Contents and tracklist

Rodgers, R: Oklahoma!
Work length1:39:27
Overture
Track length5:18
No. 1, Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'
Track length3:19
No. 2, Laurey's Entrance
Track length0:26
No. 3, The Surrey with the Fringe on Top
Track length6:04
No. 4, Kansas City
Track length5:23
No. 5, The Surrey with the Fringe on Top (Reprise)
Track length0:59
No. 6, I Cain't Say No!
Track length3:11
No. 7, I Cain't Say No! (Encore)
Track length0:57
No. 8, Entrance of Ensemble
Track length0:58
No. 9, Many a New Day
Track length3:06
No. 10, Many a New Day (Dance and Reprise)
Track length3:48
No. 11, It's a Scandal! It's a Outrage!
Track length3:25
No. 12, People Will Say We're in Love
Track length5:55
No. 13, Change of Scene
Track length2:26
No. 14, Pore Jud is Daid
Track length5:07
No. 15, Lonely Room
Track length2:41
No. 16, Change of Scene
Track length1:46
No. 17a, Dream Sequence Melos
Track length0:42
No. 17b, Dream Sequence Out of My Dreams
Track length2:31
No. 17c, Dream Sequence Interlude to Ballet
Track length0:15
No. 17d, Dream Sequence Dream Ballet
Track length13:28
No. 18, Entr'acte
Track length2:34
No. 19, The Farmer and the Cowman
Track length4:22
No. 20, Farmer Dance
Track length2:10
No. 21, Change of Scene
Track length0:29
No. 22, All er Nothin'
Track length5:15
No. 23, Change of Scene
Track length0:30
No. 24, People Will Say We're in Love (Reprise)
Track length1:34
Nos. 25 & 26, Change of Scene
Track length2:11
No. 27, Oklahoma
Track length3:17
No. 28, Oklahoma (Encore)
Track length1:07
No. 29, Finale Ultimo: Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' / People Will Say We're in Love
Track length1:53
No. 30, Exit Music
Track length2:20

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Awards and reviews

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.
5 out of 5 stars

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.
James Longstaffe

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.
4 out of 5 stars

Limelight Magazine 25th September 2023

Yes, historically informed performance has come to Broadway, and it couldn’t be hipper.
5 out of 5 stars

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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