Aler, John

Overview

Works:	623 works in 1,748 publications in 9 languages and 26,012 library holdings
Genres:	Songs and music Oratorios Music Live sound recordings Operas Songs Drama Cantatas Excerpts History
Roles:	Performer, Singer, Actor, Other, t=t, Author, Vocalist, Conductor, Musician, htt
Classifications:	M2000, 782.23

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about John Aler

Hippolyte et Aricie by Jean-Philippe Rameau( Visual )

Most widely held works by John Aler

Messiah by George Frideric Handel( )

46 editions published between 1982 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 1,738 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir present an intimate and stirring performance of Handel's Messiah. This 2-CD recording of the full score on period instruments features a stellar cast of soloists. Tafelmusik presents this baroque masterpiece with the spirit and vitality of Handel's own 18th-century productions. A perennial favorite with audiences and critics alike, Tafelmusik's Messiah has garnered glowing reviews year after year

Carmina Burana by Carl Orff( )

15 editions published between 1981 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 1,148 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Eugune Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra are joined by the Rutgers University Choir, Janice Harsanyi, Rudolf Petrak, and Harve Presnell for this 1960 production of Orff's Carmina Burana

Songs of the Civil War by Daniel Decatur Emmett( Recording )

24 editions published between 1976 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 817 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Semele by George Frideric Handel( Recording )

12 editions published in 1993 in 3 languages and held by 685 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Semele (HWV 58) is a 'musical drama' in three parts by George Frideric Handel. The story comes from Ovid's Metamorphoses and concerns Semele, mother of Bacchus. Handel also referred to the work as 'The Story of Semele'. The work is classified as a 'musical drama', but it does fuse elements of opera, oratorio and classical drama, which anticipates the grand operas of the nineteenth century...Neither is it opera due to the large number of choruses..."--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semele_(Handel)

Les pêcheurs de perles = The pearl fishers = Die Perlenfischer by Georges Bizet( Recording )

13 editions published between 1989 and 2006 in 4 languages and held by 637 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Iphigénie en Tauride by Christoph Willibald Gluck( Recording )

43 editions published between 1986 and 2013 in 6 languages and held by 632 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Gluck's deeply moving masterpiece returned to the Met in 2007 after an absence of 90 years, featuring an all-star cast vibrantly conducted by Louis Langrée in his company debut. Oreste, sung by the incomparable Plácido Domingo, is hounded by the furies for murdering his mother. He has been shipwrecked on Tauris where he and his friend Pylade (Paul Groves) are condemned to die at the hands of the priestess Iphigénie (Susan Graham). At the sacrificial altar Oreste and Iphigénie suddenly realize they are brother and sister--and face slaughter by the angry king Thoas (William Shimell)

Saint François d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen( Recording )

16 editions published in 1999 in 4 languages and held by 598 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Recorded live at the Saltburg Festival

Le comte Ory by Gioacchino Rossini( )

38 editions published between 1989 and 2005 in 5 languages and held by 582 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Tenor Juan Diego Flórez gives a sensational performance in the title role of Rossini's rarely heard, gender-bending comedy. Disguised as nuns, Ory and his men gain entrance to the castle of Countess Adèle (Pretty Yende in her Met debut), but the Counts attempts at seduction go comically wrong. Karine Deshayes is Isolier, Ory's page who is also in love with the Countess and determined to beat the Count at his own game. Nathan Gunn sings Raimbaud, Ory's boon companion, and bel canto specialist Maurizio Benini conducts

Iphigénie en Aulide by Christoph Willibald Gluck( Recording )

24 editions published between 1990 and 2008 in 4 languages and held by 563 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Recorded in the Opéra de Lyon, July 1987

Messiah : highlights by George Frideric Handel( )

20 editions published between 1982 and 2001 in 3 languages and held by 557 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Westminster choir; John Finley Williamson, director; New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor; Adele Addison, soprano; David Lloyd, tenor; Russell Oberlin, countertenor; William Warfield, baritone; notes included; includes: Air-every valley shall be exalted; Chorus-and the glory of the Lord; Chorus-and He shall purify; Air-o thou that tellest good tidings to Zion; Chorus-for unto us a Child is born; Air-He shall feed His flock; Chorus-lift up you heads; Chorus-Hallelujah!; Air-I know that my Redeemer liveth; Air-the trumpet shall sound; Chorus-worthy is the Lamb/blessing and hornour, glory and power, be unto Him/Amen Westminster Choir John Finley Williamson, Director New York Philharmonic Leonard Bernstein, conductor

Requiem, op. 5 : Grand Messe des morts by Hector Berlioz( Recording )

12 editions published in 1985 in 3 languages and held by 517 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

La belle Hélène by Jacques Offenbach( )

31 editions published between 1985 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 514 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

La Belle Helene. Chorus and Orchestra of Capitole de Toulouse, Michel Plasson, conductor. Jessye Norman, soprano; John Aler, tenor; Charles Burles, Gabriel Bacquier, baritone; Jean-Philippe Lafont

Pulcinella : (1965 rev. edition) ; Rag-time : (1918) for eleven instruments ; Renard the fox ; Octet for wind instruments : (1952 rev. version) by Igor Stravinsky( )

3 editions published in 1991 in Italian and held by 473 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart( )

28 editions published between 1987 and 2010 in 6 languages and held by 454 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Two Italian soldiers test the faithfulness of their respective lovers by faking their departure to battle, reappearing in disguise as Albanians and proceeding to court them

Sweeney Todd : the demon barber of Fleet Street : in concert by Stephen Sondheim( Visual )

6 editions published between 2001 and 2003 in English and held by 442 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Performed at the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco in July 2001

Te Deum by Hector Berlioz( )

5 editions published in 1997 in Latin and held by 417 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Te Deum pour ténor, trois choeurs, orchestre et orgue concertante, op. 22

Where home is : life in nineteenth-century Cincinnati, crossroads of the East and West( Recording )

17 editions published between 1977 and 2003 in 3 languages and held by 413 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Cantata profana ; The wooden prince = Der holzgeschnitzte Prinz = Le prince de bois by Béla Bartók( Recording )

6 editions published in 1992 in 3 languages and held by 397 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Die Zauberhirsche: Cantata profana für Tenor, Bariton, Doppelchor und Orchester, Sz 94. Text: aus rumänischen Volksliedern / Der holzgeschnitzte Prinz: Tanzspiel in einem Akt von Bela Balazs, Sz 60

Joshua by George Frideric Handel( )

10 editions published between 1991 and 1999 in 3 languages and held by 390 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Josua: Oratorium in drei Akten für Soli, Chor, Orchester und Continuo, HWV 64. Text: Thomas Morell

Sacred service for the Sabbath evening : excerpts ; A woman of valor = Eshet ḥayil ; Parable : a tale of Abraham and Isaac ; Meditations at the time of the new year by Judith Lang Zaimont( )

8 editions published between 2005 and 2006 in English and Multiple languages and held by 386 WorldCat member libraries worldwide