Anthony Davis: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

The first recording from BMOP's As Told By: History, Race, and Justice on the Opera Stage is now available digitally!

Purchase your high-quality, DRM-free copy of Anthony Davis: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X and receive unlimited streaming at BMOP's Bandcamp page. Physical CDs arrive later this month, which you can pre-order below.

Record Label 
BMOP/sound
Recording Catalog Number 
1088
Recording Length 
Disc 1: 77:59
Disc 2: 70:56
Recording Release Date 
September 2022
Disc 1 
Audio icon Overture
Audio icon Act I
Audio icon Scene 1: "Africa for Africans"
Audio icon Scene 1: Louise's Aria, "I remember..."
Audio icon Scene 1: "Reverend Little is dead."
Audio icon Scene 1: "What is going on here?"
Audio icon Scene 1: "Momma, help me."
Audio icon Scene 2: Boston, "Come with me, child."
Audio icon Scene 2: Pool Hall, "Shoot your shot!"
Audio icon Scene 2: Dance Hall, "Just stand real still"
Audio icon Scene 2: "I see..."
Audio icon Scene 3: Malcolm's Aria, "You want the story, but you don't want to know"
Audio icon Act II
Audio icon Scene 1: Prison, "In the devil's grip"
Audio icon Scene 1: "You are not empty"
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Audio icon Act II (cont'd)
Audio icon Scene 2: 125th St, Harlem, "We are an African people"
Audio icon Scene 2: "When I was little"
Audio icon Scene 3: "If we are going to be free"
Audio icon Scene 3: "Jones is not your name"
Audio icon Scene 3: "We're not askin' Massa to sit at a lunch counter"
Audio icon Scene 4: "We are a nation"
Audio icon Scene 4: "The chickens come home to roost."
Audio icon Scene 5: Malcolm and Betty, "Are you sure?"
Audio icon Act III
Audio icon Scene 1: "Betrayal is on his lips"
Audio icon Scene 2: Betty's Aria, "When a man is lost"
Audio icon Scene 2: Mecca, "Bismillah hirrahman-irrahim"
Audio icon Scene 3: Riot
Audio icon Scene 3: "The name is Shabazz"
Audio icon Scene 4: I have learned so much in Africa"
Audio icon Scene 5: Audubon Ballroom
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Recording Booklet 
PDF icon 1088-davis-x-bklt-web.pdf
SACD Recording 
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1
Related Composer 
Anthony Davis
Related Soloist 
Davóne Tines
Whitney Morrison
Ronnita Miller
Victor Robertson
Joshua Conyers
Soloist Instrument 
bass-baritone
soprano
mezzo-soprano
tenor
baritone
Related Conductor 
Gil Rose

John Corigliano: To Music

Record Label 
BMOP/sound
Recording Catalog Number 
1087
Recording Length 
Disc 1: 66:04
Recording Release Date 
June 2022
Disc 1 
Audio icon <i>To Music</i> (1995)
Audio icon <i>Troubadours</i>: Variations for Guitar and Chamber Orchestra (1993)
Audio icon Symphony No. 2 (2000)
Audio icon I. Prelude
Audio icon II. Scherzo
Audio icon III. Nocturne
Audio icon IV. Fugue
Audio icon V. Postlude
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PDF icon 1087-corigliano-bklt-web.pdf
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John Corigliano
Related Soloist 
Eliot Fisk
Soloist Instrument 
guitar
Related Conductor 
Gil Rose

Roger Reynolds: Violin Works

NOTE: This is an overlength release. It may not play on older CD players. It will play on all SACD players.

Roger Reynolds: Violin Works compiles three works demonstrating the composer's use of the violin's "multifaceted voice" spanning fifteen years. Longtime BMOP member Gabriela Díaz is featured as the soloist on all three pieces on the disc.

Record Label 
BMOP/sound
Recording Catalog Number 
1086
Recording Length 
Disc 1: 83:25
Recording Release Date 
April 2022
Disc 1 
Audio icon <i>Personae</i> (1989-1990)
Audio icon The Conjurer
Audio icon The Dancer
Audio icon The Meditator
Audio icon The Advocate
Audio icon <i>Kokoro</i> for solo violin (1991-1992)
Audio icon 1. Staged Convergence
Audio icon 2. Unearthly
Audio icon 3. Intricate Alternation
Audio icon 4. Excitation, Recovery, Focus
Audio icon 5. Tenuous, Trembling
Audio icon 6. With Radiant Continuity
Audio icon 7. A Traversal of Sighs
Audio icon 8. Ghostly, Evanescent, Elastic
Audio icon 9. Luminous Murmurs
Audio icon 10. Alternative Paths
Audio icon 11. Augmented Throbbing
Audio icon 12. Precisely, Implacably
Audio icon <i>Aspiration</i> (2004-2005)
Audio icon I.
Audio icon II.
Audio icon III.
Audio icon IV.
Audio icon V.
Audio icon VI.
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PDF icon 1086-reynolds-bklt-web.pdf
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Roger Reynolds
Related Soloist 
Gabriela Diaz
Soloist Instrument 
violin
Related Conductor 
Gil Rose

Gail Kubik: Symphony Concertante

Record Label 
BMOP/sound
Recording Catalog Number 
1085
Recording Length 
Disc 1: 69:19
Recording Release Date 
January 2022
Disc 1 
Audio icon Divertimento No. 1
Audio icon I. Overture
Audio icon II. Humoresque
Audio icon III. Scene Change
Audio icon IV. Seascape
Audio icon V. Burlesque
Audio icon Gerald McBoing Boing
Audio icon Divertimento No. 2
Audio icon Overture
Audio icon Pastorale I
Audio icon Pastorale II
Audio icon Scherzino (Puppet Show)
Audio icon Dialogue
Audio icon Dance Toccata
Audio icon Symphony Concertante for Trumpet, Viola, Piano, and Orchestra
Audio icon I. Fast, vigorously
Audio icon II. Quietly
Audio icon III. Fast, with energy
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PDF icon 1085-kubik-bklt-web.pdf
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Gail Kubik
Related Soloist 
Vivian Choi
Terry Everson
Frank Kelley
Jing Peng
Robert Schulz
Soloist Instrument 
piano
trumpet
narrator
viola
percussion
Related Conductor 
Gil Rose

Matthew Aucoin: Orphic Moments

Also available for hi-res digital download on Bandcamp.

Recording Recent Thumbnail 
Record Label 
BMOP/sound
Recording Catalog Number 
1084
Recording Length 
Disc 1: 62:20
Disc 2: 49:01
Recording Release Date 
November 2021
Disc 1 
Audio icon Exodos for Tony
Audio icon Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Audio icon I.
Audio icon II.
Audio icon III.
Audio icon The Orphic Moment
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Disc 2 
Audio icon Its Own Accord
Audio icon I.
Audio icon II.
Audio icon III.
Audio icon Dual
Audio icon This Earth
Audio icon Gallup (<i>Na'nízhoozhí</i>)
Audio icon I.
Audio icon II.
Audio icon III.
Audio icon IV. Afterparty
Audio icon V. Virginity
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PDF icon 1084-aucoin-bklt-web_v2.pdf
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Matthew Aucoin
Related Conductor 
Gil Rose

John Harbison: Diotima

Also available for hi-res digital download on Bandcamp

Record Label 
BMOP/sound
Recording Catalog Number 
1083
Recording Length 
Disc 1: 75:22
Recording Release Date 
November 2021
Disc 1 
Audio icon Diotima
Audio icon Milosz Songs for Soprano and Orchestra
Audio icon Prologue from <i>Lauda</i>
Audio icon 1. A Task
Audio icon 2. Encounter
Audio icon 3. You Who Wronged
Audio icon 4. When the Moon
Audio icon 5. O!
Audio icon 6. What Once Was Great
Audio icon 7. So Little
Audio icon 8. On Old Women
Audio icon Epilogue: from <i>Winter</i>
Audio icon Post-Epilogue: <i>Rays of Dazzling Light</i>
Audio icon Symphony No. 6
Audio icon I.
Audio icon II.
Audio icon III.
Audio icon IV.
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PDF icon 1083-harbison-diotima-bklt-web.pdf
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John Harbison
Related Soloist 
Dawn Upshaw
Soloist Instrument 
soprano
Related Conductor 
Gil Rose

Arnold Rosner: The Chronicle of Nine

Also available for hi-res digital download on Bandcamp

Recording Subtitle 
The Tragedy of Queen Jane
Record Label 
BMOP/sound
Recording Catalog Number 
1081
Recording Length 
Disc 1: 81:36
Disc 2: 49:42
Recording Release Date 
September 2021
Disc 1 
Audio icon Act 1
Audio icon Prelude
Audio icon Ballad
Audio icon Scene 1
Audio icon Scene 2
Audio icon Scene 3: Wedding Ballet—Intrada
Audio icon Scene 3: Wedding Ballet—Minuet
Audio icon Scene 3: Wedding Ballet—Round Dance
Audio icon Scene 4
Audio icon Act 2
Audio icon Prelude
Audio icon Ballad
Audio icon Prelude
Audio icon Scene 1
Audio icon Scene 2
Audio icon Scene 3
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Disc 2 
Audio icon Act 3
Audio icon Prelude
Audio icon Ballad
Audio icon Scene 1
Audio icon Scene 2
Audio icon Scene 3
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PDF icon 1081-rosner-bklt-web.pdf
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Arnold Rosner
Related Soloist 
Megan Pachecano
James Demler
David Salsbery Fry
Aaron Engebreth
Krista River
Eric Carey
William Hite
Rebecca Krouner
Stephanie Kacoyanis
Gene Stenger
Soloist Instrument 
soprano
baritone
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baritone
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tenor
tenor
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Related Conductor 
Gil Rose

Tod Machover: Death and the Powers

Death and the Powers, Tod Machover's acclaimed, large-scale "robotic" opera set to a libretto by U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. Also available on Apple Music (Dolby Atmos).

Record Label 
BMOP/sound
Recording Catalog Number 
1082
Recording Length 
Disc 1: 86:25
Recording Release Date 
September 2021
Disc 1 
Audio icon Death and the Powers (2010)
Audio icon Prologue
Audio icon Memory Download
Audio icon Scene One: Simon and the System
Audio icon Scene Two: System Soliloquy
Audio icon Scene Three: Getting to Know You
Audio icon Scene Four: Evvy's Touch
Audio icon Scene Five: Nicholas and the Robots
Audio icon Scene Six: The World Reacts
Audio icon Miranda's Aria: I Miss Having a Father
Audio icon Scene Seven: Into the System
Audio icon A Parade of the World's Miseries
Audio icon Scene Eight: One Last Time
Audio icon Epilogue
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PDF icon 1082-machoverdatp-bklt-web_2.pdf
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Tod Machover
Related Soloist 
James Maddalena
Joélle Harvey
Patricia Risley
Hal Cazalet
Soloist Instrument 
baritone
soprano
mezzo-soprano
tenor
Related Conductor 
Gil Rose

Walter Piston: Concerto for Orchestra

Also available for hi-res digital download on Bandcamp

Record Label 
BMOP/sound
Recording Catalog Number 
1080
Recording Length 
Disc 1: 49:41
Recording Release Date 
June 2021
Disc 1 
Audio icon Variations on a Theme by Edward Burlingame Hill <i>World Premiere Recording</i>
Audio icon Divertimento for Nine Instruments
Audio icon I. Allegro
Audio icon II. Tranquillo
Audio icon III. Vivo
Audio icon Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra
Audio icon Concerto for Orchestra <i>World Premiere Recording</i>
Audio icon I. Allegro moderato ma energico
Audio icon II. Allegro vivace
Audio icon III. Adagio—Allegro moderato
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PDF icon 1080-piston-bklt-9.pdf
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Walter Piston
Related Soloist 
Michael Norsworthy
Soloist Instrument 
clarinet
Related Conductor 
Gil Rose

Samuel Barber: Medea

BMOP's CD of music by Samuel Barber includes Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and A Hand of Bridge, anchored by a recording of the complete original ballet music of Medea.

Also available for hi-res digital download on Return to the full catalog

Recording Subtitle 
Complete Original Ballet
Record Label 
BMOP/sound
Recording Catalog Number 
1079
Recording Length 
Disc 1: 52:50
Recording Release Date 
June 2021
Disc 1 
Audio icon Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Audio icon Medea (Complete Original Ballet)
Audio icon I. Maestoso <i>Parados (Jason, Princess, Medea)</i>
Audio icon II. Allegretto <i>Chorus: Jason and Princess</i>
Audio icon III. Allegretto—Largamente <i>Medea Solo</i>
Audio icon IV. Allegro ma non troppo, giocoso <i>Princess Solo</i>
Audio icon V. Andante sostenuto—Allegro moderato <i>Jason Solo</i>
Audio icon VI. Moderato <i>Chorus: Jason and Princess</i>
Audio icon VII. Sombre, with dignity—Sostenuto <i>Medea, Chorus, Jason and Princess</i>
Audio icon VIII. Minaccioso (with foreboding) <i>Chorus (Kantikos Agonias)</i>
Audio icon IX. Allegro molto <i>Exodus</i>
Audio icon A Hand of Bridge
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PDF icon 1079-barber-bklt-4.pdf
SACD Recording 
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1
Related Composer 
Samuel Barber
Related Soloist 
Kristen Watson
Angela Gooch
Krista River
Matthew DiBattista
David Kravitz
Soloist Instrument 
soprano
soprano
mezzo-soprano
tenor
baritone
Related Conductor 
Gil Rose

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