“A game changing recording.”
–NPR

“It bursts with energy like it never did before. How often are we treated to a cast recording that is layered with such complexity and fullness of sound from the orchestra while a legion of voices come together to create sparkling and heavenly harmonies? A breathtaking bijou among the most celebrated gems of cast recordings.”
–Playbill

“A must for anyone who cares about the musical theatre.”
–The Stamford Times

“A recording I've been waiting for all my life. We can now hear it in its full, adventurous, and rather fantastic form.”
–The Bay Area Reporter

“The album has the vibrancy of a live performance with studio-quality sound. The score offers delights for all kinds of show music fans. Most of us never expected to hear a full recording of this score with a cast and orchestra of this size and quality, and to have it delivered with such finesse is nothing short of a miracle.”
–CastAlbums.org

“It sports some of the best engineering I've heard from an opera - and wonder of wonders, it was recorded live. The greatest American opera ever written. Well done!”
–Fanfare Magazine

The Golden Apple
First Full Length Recording

When it premiered in 1954, composer Jerome Moross and librettist John Latouche's THE GOLDEN APPLE was hailed as "the most original musical since Oklahoma!" (The Washington Post), "the best thing that has happened in and to the theatre in a very long time" (New York Daily News), and "a magnificent achievement. A sensational success. The most imaginative work of its kind" (New York Daily Mirror). Its blend of American folklore and Greek myth, popular entertainment and high art, and musical comedy and operatic drama "stood Manhattan on its ear," winning the New York Drama Critics' Circle prize for Best Musical (the first Off-Broadway show to do so) and spawning the standard "Lazy Afternoon." Yet, sadly, this 135-minute through-sung musical was preserved only in a 48-minute LP, and after a short-lived transfer to Broadway, THE GOLDEN APPLE all but slipped into obscurity. In November of 2014, the Lyric Stage of Irving, Texas, mounted a fully-staged revival of THE GOLDEN APPLE, featuring an orchestra of 38 and a 43-member cast, and PS Classics was there to preserve the score in its entirety. Featuring nearly 90 minutes of previously unrecorded music and the complete libretto, PS Classics' deluxe two-disc cast recording of THE GOLDEN APPLE gives new life to a musical milestone of the American theatre.

Disc One:

1. Overture
   
2. Nothing Ever Happens in Angel's Roost
   
3. Angel's Roost Has Its Situation
   
4. Mother Hare's Seance
   
5. My Love Is on the Way
   
6. The Heroes Come Home
   
7. It Was a Glad Adventure
   
8. Come Along Boys
   
9. It's the Going Home Together
   
10. Mother Hare's Prophecy
    
11. Good Is a Word That Fools Believe
    
12. It's the Going Home Together (Continuation)
    
13. Helen Is Always Willing
    
14. The Arrival of Paris
    
15. Let's Pay a Visit
    
16. The Picnic Table
    
17. Mother Hare's Return
    
18. An Impartial Judge
    
19. The Judgment of Paris
    
20. If You Select My Angel Food
    
21. I'll Teach You
    
22. The Loveliest Things in Life
    
23. It's a Fraud
    
24. Paris Visits Helen
25. Lazy Afternoon
    
26. The Departure for Rhododendron
    

Disc Two:

1. My Picture in the Papers
   
2. Plumes on Her Hat
   
3. Form a Committee
   
4. The Prize Fight
   
5. Let's Go Home
   
6. Hector's Song
   
7. A Good Girl
   
8. Windflowers
   
9. Store-Bought Suit
   
10. Hurry! Hurry!
    
11. Calypso
    
12. Paradise Alley
    
13. Scylla and Charybdis
    
14. A Carefree Diversion
    
15. Goona-Goona
    
16. One Hell of a Bender
    
17. Doomed, Doomed, Doomed
    
18. Enough is Enough!
    
19. Circe
    
20. Ulysses' Soliloquy
    
21. Busy Little Sewing Bee
    
22. Penelope's Tirade
    
23. We've Just Begun