John Knowles Paine (Oedipus Tyrannus) @mosaicclassics
John Knowles Paine (Oedipus Tyrannus)  @mosaicclassics
Uploaded May 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Paine composed incidental music for Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus in 1881. It was the first revival of classical Greek Drama in America.
The recording here only consists of the prelude section. The work also includes six male choruses and a postlude.

Performed by the London Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Kenneth Klein
John Knowles Paine (Oedipus Tyrannus)David Van Vactor (from Five Bagatelles for Strings)Harold Shapero (Symphony for Classical Orchestra)William Schuman (Violin Concerto - Part 1 of 2)Charles Martin Loeffler (By the Rivers of Babylon)William Schuman (A Free Song)Christopher Rouse (Concerto de Gaudí for Guitar and Orchestra)Nicolas Flagello (Credendum)John Harbison (Symphony No. 2)William Grant Still (Ennanga)Adolphus Hailstork (An American Port of Call)Leonard Bernstein (Suite for Orchestra from Candide)
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John Knowles Paine (Oedipus Tyrannus)

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