Mode: mode 154--mode 155 (on container spine: mode 154/55)
Title from container; discs entitled Op : The traditional (disc 1) and Era : The modern (disc 2).
Compact discs.
Program notes in English, German, and French ([19] p. : facsims., port.) inserted in container.
Recorded Aug. 19-20, 1992, Slee Hall, State University at Buffalo, N.Y.
Disc 1, The traditional. Trittico fantasy : fantasia on themes from Il trittico / Giacomo Puccini (16:34). Casta diva : from Norma / Vincenzo Bellini (8:08). Introduction & aria "Caro nome" : from Rigoletto / Giuseppi [i.e. Giuseppe] Verdi (7:04). Vissi d'arte : aria from act 2 of Tosca (4:50) ; Portrait of "Madame Butterfly" : an operatic sonata-fantasy on themes of Puccini in 4 parts (14:00) / Giacomo Puccini -- Disc 2, The modern. Intermezzo & final scene from Pelléas et Mélisande / Claude Debussy (9:40). Wirtshauswalzer : from Wozzeck / Alban Berg (2:23). Pianobar pour Phèdre : from Le racine / Sylvano Bussotti (12:29). Striding dance : from The man with the footsoles of wind / Kevin Volans (5:00)