Brooklyn Suite Zachary Wilder & Rob Mounsey

• Marc Blitzstein (1905 - 1964): Stay in My Arms (Arr. for Voice, Piano, Guitar, Bass, Drums and Strings by R. Mounsey):
• 1 Blitzstein: Stay in My Arms (Arr. for Voice, Piano, Guitar, Bass, Drums and Strings by R. Mounsey) 04:34
• Mark Markovich Warshawsky (1848 - 1907): Milner's Treren (Arr. for Voice, Violin and Cello by R. Mounsey):
• 2 Warshawsky: Milner's Treren (Arr. for Voice, Violin and Cello by R. Mounsey) 01:42
• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828): Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795, Op. 25:
• 3 Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795, Op. 25: No. 4, Danksagung an den Bach (Arr. for Voice, Piano, Guitar, Bass, Drums and Strings by R. Mounsey) 02:09
• Moishe Oysher (1907 - 1958): Grine Bleter (Arr. for Voice, Piano, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Clarinet and Accordion by R. Mounsey):
• 4 Oysher: Grine Bleter (Arr. for Voice, Piano, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Clarinet and Accordion by R. Mounsey) 03:47
• Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990): West Side Story, Act I:
• 5 Bernstein: West Side Story, Act I: Something's Coming (Arr. for Voice, Piano, Guitar, Bass, Drums and Strings by R. Mounsey) 02:28
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492: Giunse alfin il momento — La clemenza di tito, K. 621:
• 6 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492: Giunse alfin il momento — La clemenza di tito, K. 621: Ah, grazie si rendono (Arr. for Voice, Piano, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Clarinet and Strings by R. Mounsey) 04:42
• Zez Confrey (1895 - 1971): Dizzy Fingers (Arr. for Voice, Piano, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Clarinet and Violin by R. Mounsey):
• 7 Confrey: Dizzy Fingers (Arr. for Voice, Piano, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Clarinet and Violin by R. Mounsey) 02:45
• John Klenner (1899 - 1955), Kay Swift (1897 - 1993): Just Friends / Can't We Be Friends? (Arr. for Voice, Piano, Guitar, Bass, Drums and Strings by R. Mounsey):
• 8 Klenner, Swift: Just Friends / Can't We Be Friends? (Arr. for Voice, Piano, Guitar, Bass, Drums and Strings by R. Mounsey) 03:37
• Kurt Weill (1900 - 1950): Happy End, Act I:
• 9 Weill: Happy End, Act I: Bilbao Song (Arr. for Voice, Piano, Banjo, Bass, Drums, Accordion and Strings by R. Mounsey) 03:13
• George Gershwin 1898 - 1937): A Damsel in Distress:
• 10 Gershwin: A Damsel in Distress: Nice Work If You Can Get It (Arr. for Voice, Piano, Guitar, Bass and Drums by R. Mounsey) 03:36
• Amy Beach (1867 - 1944): 2 Songs, Op. 100:
• 11 Beach: 2 Songs, Op. 100: No. 1, A Mirage (Arr. for Voice, Piano, Violin and Cello by R. Mounsey) 02:41
• Kurt Weill: Street Scene, Act I:
• 12 Weill: Street Scene, Act I: Lonely House (Arr. for Voice, Piano, Guitar, Bass, Drums and Strings by R. Mounsey) 03:47
• Mitch Leigh (1928 - 2014): Man of La Mancha:
• 13 Leigh: Man of La Mancha: To Each His Dulcinea (Arr. for Voice, Piano, Guitar, Bass, Drums and Strings by R. Mounsey) 01:57
• Franz Schubert: Des Fischers Liebesglück, D. 933 (Arr. for Voice, Piano, Guitar, Bass, Drums and Strings by R. Mounsey):
• 14 Schubert: Des Fischers Liebesglück, D. 933 (Arr. for Voice, Piano, Guitar, Bass, Drums and Strings by R. Mounsey) 04:15
• Saul Chaplin (1912 - 1997), Sammy Cahn (1913 - 1993): I Want My Share of Love (Arr. for Voice, Piano, Guitar, Bass and Drums by. R. Mounsey):
• 15 Chaplin, Cahn: I Want My Share of Love (Arr. for Voice, Piano, Guitar, Bass and Drums by. R. Mounsey) 03:55
• Hanns Eisler (1898 - 1962): Hollywooder Liederbuch:
• 16 Eisler: Hollywooder Liederbuch: No. 3, An den kleinen Radioapparat (Arr. for Voice, Guitar and Bass by R. Mounsey) 01:08
• Matthew Wilder (b. 1953): Stiletto, Act I:
• 17 Wilder: Stiletto, Act I: The Wanting (Arr. for Voice, Piano, Guitar, Bass, Drums and Strings by R. Mounsey) 03:32
• How Fast Forever Goes (Arr. for Voice, Piano, Guitar, Bass, Drums and Strings by R. Mounsey):
• 18 Wilder: How Fast Forever Goes (Arr. for Voice, Piano, Guitar, Bass, Drums and Strings by R. Mounsey) 05:01
• Total Runtime 58:49

Info for Brooklyn Suite

Renowned American operatic tenor, Zachary Wilder is the descendant of a large family of Jewish immigrants, musicians who fled their small Lithuanian shtetl of Panevezys to escape the persecution of the brutal pogroms in the late 19th Century. Emigrating to America, the Steinfelds settled and flourished in their new home of Brooklyn.

It is now the early 20th Century and Zachary’s great, great uncles Leo and Willy wander into the parlor from the kitchen as the dinner dishes are being washed. Leo and Willy sit down at the piano to summon up the intro to a four handed arrangement of Beethoven’s Eroica. As the rest of the family gathers around with their instruments of guitars, woodwinds and strings, the evening evolves into a dizzyingly varied repertoire of Yiddish operetta, chamber music, Gershwin, Berlin, tin pan alley and musical theater tunes.

This is the foundation from which Mr. Wilder imagines and creates his new album project, “The Brooklyn Suites”.

“This album came to me as a dream,” Wilder says, “as an imaginary evening with my family and ancestors”. The repertoire is the result of first-hand accounts by cousins who attended these evenings, traversing decades of music from Jewish traditional to Mozart and Schubert to contemporary songs written by Leonard Bernstein, Gershwin, Sammy Cahn, Mitch Leigh and Zachary’s father, Matthew Wilder. Mr. Wilder illustrates the variety of the important contribution that Eastern European and German Jewish immigrants, along with their children brought to the American Sound.

Zachary Wilder, tenor
Rob Mounsey, piano
Matt Beck, guitar
David Finck, bass
Mark McLean, drums
Lawrence Feldman, clarinet
Rob Curto, accordion
String Orchestra
Antoine Silverman, conductor

Zachary Wilder
With a striking vocal presence and captivating musical refinement, American tenor Zachary Wilder has established himself as a leading interpreter of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century repertoire, from Monteverdi to Mozart, while also embracing the works of the twentieth century such as Britten. His artistry and dramatic commitment have earned him invitations from some of the world’s most distinguished conductors and ensembles on both sides of the Atlantic. Embodying the fervor of sacred masterpieces as well as the opulence of opera, he is praised for a stage presence of rare intensity.

He collaborates regularly with renowned ensembles such as Pygmalion, L’Arpeggiata, Les Arts Florissants, Les Talens Lyriques, Le Concert d’Astrée, the Boston Early Music Festival, Bach Collegium Japan, the Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, the Handel & Haydn Society, the Nederlandse Bachvereniging, and the Nederlands Kamerkoor. Alongside his early-music work, he has appeared with leading symphony orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, and the Saint Louis Symphony, expanding his repertoire into more recent centuries. Highlights include Vaughan Williams’s On Wenlock Edge, Britten’s Nocturne (Charlottesville Symphony), and the role of Mark in Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels (Festival Musica in Strasbourg and Philharmonie de Paris). ​

Recent seasons have been marked by major projects and close artistic partnerships with prominent conductors. With Francesco Corti, he toured extensively in Händel’s Radamisto with Il Pomo d’Oro, followed by stage productions at Drottningholm Opera (The Fairy Queen by Purcell in 2023 and Lully’s Armide in 2024), and a tour of Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Freiburger Barockorchester.

Under Philippe Jaroussky, he sang the role of Erinda in Sartorio’s L’Orfeo at the Opéra de Montpellier and made his debut in the title role of Mozart’s Mitridate with Capella Cracoviensis. He is also a frequent guest of Christina Pluhar and L’Arpeggiata, performing Monteverdi but also Mozart, including Agenore in Il Re Pastore at the Salzburg Mozarteum and at Budapest’s Müpa.

With Raphaël Pichon and Pygmalion, he has sung Basilio in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, toured Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, and appeared most recently in Romeo Castellucci’s production of Le lacrime di Eros (role of Pastore) at Dutch National Opera. In summer 2025, he appeared at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in Cavalli’s La Calisto (role of Linfea) with Ensemble Correspondances and Sébastien Daucé, directed by Jetske Mijnssen. He has also performed with the Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra and Choir in Lisbon, singing Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Mass in B minor under Martina Batič and Peter Dijkstra.

The 2025/2026 season promises to be equally exciting: Britten’s Serenade conducted by Osmo Vänskä; a European tour with Pygmalion (German sacred repertoire); Händel’s Alcina (role of Oronte, concert version) with Philippe Jaroussky and Ensemble Artaserse in Paris, Montpellier, and Barcelona; revivals of La Calisto (Paris, Nantes, Angers, Rennes); Mozart’s Requiem in Salzburg with Christina Pluhar; and Bach’s St Matthew Passion (as the Evangelist) with Masato Suzuki and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo.

His discography includes more than forty recordings on prestigious labels such as Ricercar, CPO, Soli Deo Gloria, Harmonia Mundi, Glossa, Atma, La Música, and Aparté, under the direction of William Christie, John Eliot Gardiner, Masaaki Suzuki, Christophe Rousset, and Raphaël Pichon. His recital album Eternità d’amore (La Música) was widely acclaimed by the press. His first solo recording for Harmonia Mundi, Brooklyn Suite, will be released in early 2026.

Booklet for Brooklyn Suite