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Crossman / White / Nakagoshi- Life Before Us

SKU: 896931004534
¥119.00
the album cover for Crossman / White / Nakagoshi - Life Before Us
the album cover for Crossman / White / Nakagoshi - Life Before Us

Bearing musical witness to the versatile talents of two acclaimed northern California-based composers, The Life Before Us combines works from John G. Bilotta and Allan Crossman. Bilotta's cycle of Yeats Songs, performed by baritone Andrew R. White, highlights five of the poet's shorter lyrics in predominantly bi-tonal or atonal settings. His collection of Renaissance Songs is based on the work of several Elizabethan poets, including John Donne and Thomas Lodge. They're brilliantly delivered by tenor Justin Marsh. Bilotta draws on two American poets, Carl Sandburg and Edna St. Vincent Millay, for "Lost" and "Prayer to Persephone," two songs united by a single poetic theme and elegantly performed by soprano Cass Panuska accompanied by pianist Hadley McCarroll, who are also featured on The Hippocampus' Monologue, the closing aria from the first act of Bilotta's opera Rosetta's Stone. Allan Crossman's ten songs on The Life Before Us include four inspired by the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca and an international array of others: from Ireland (James Joyce), Germany (Hermann Claudius and Ricarda Huch), Russia (Alexander Scriabin), and America (Louis Phillips), performed by mezzo-soprano Megan Stetson and bass Richard Mix, with the composer himself at the piano. Crossman's three-movement Sonata fLux, with pianist Keisuke Nakagoshi, flows from the energetic "Moto Atlantico" through the vibrating "fLight of the Firefly" to the swirling fluidity of "Rondo a Pollock" - inspired, as it's title suggests, by Jackson Pollock's 'action painting' technique - and brings the eclectic program to an impressive conclusion.

Tracklist:

  1. Yeats Songs: I. The Lover Pleads With His Friend For Old Friends
  2. Yeats Songs: II. The Moods
  3. Yeats Songs: III. A Drinking Song
  4. Yeats Songs: IV. The Old Men Admiring Themselves In The Water
  5. Yeats Songs: V. Maid Quiet
  6. Renaissance Songs: I. Prisoners
  7. Renaissance Songs: II. The Silver Swan
  8. Renaissance Songs: III. Aubade
  9. Renaissance Songs: IV. Bitter-Sweet
  10. Renaissance Songs: V. A Fancy
  11. 10 Songs: No. 1, New Songs
  12. 10 Songs: No. 2, New Songs 2
  13. 10 Songs: No. 3, Dream
  14. 10 Songs: No. 4, Water
  15. 10 Songs: No. 5, Landscape
  16. 10 Songs: No. 6, Deep In The Heavens
  17. 10 Songs: No. 7, That Windless Hour
  18. 10 Songs: No. 8, Poem Of Ecstasy
  19. 10 Songs: No. 9, The Leaves Murmur In The Wind
  20. 10 Songs: No. 10, My Entire Life Before Me
  21. Piano Sonatina: I. Grazioso E Leggero
  22. Piano Sonatina: II. Adagietto
  23. Piano Sonatina: III. Con Brio
  24. Piano Sonatina No. 2: I. Languido
  25. Piano Sonatina No. 2: II. Delicato
  26. Piano Sonatina No. 2: III. Volando
  27. Piano Sonatina No. 3: I. Giocoso
  28. Piano Sonatina No. 3: II. Andantino
  29. Piano Sonatina No. 3: III. Furioso
  30. Rosetta's Stone: The Hippocampus' Monologue
  31. 2 Songs On American Poetry: No. 1, Lost
  32. 2 Songs On American Poetry: No. 2, Prayer To Persephone
  33. Sonata Flux: I. Moto Atlantico
  34. Sonata Flux: II. Flight Of The Firefly
  35. Sonata Flux: III. Rondo À Pollock

UPC > 896931004534

Format > New CD

Label > Navona

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Crossman / White / Nakagoshi- Life Before Us

SKU: 896931004534
¥119.00

Release Date: 04.13.2018

 
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Bearing musical witness to the versatile talents of two acclaimed northern California-based composers, The Life Before Us combines works from John G. Bilotta and Allan Crossman. Bilotta's cycle of Yeats Songs, performed by baritone Andrew R. White, highlights five of the poet's shorter lyrics in predominantly bi-tonal or atonal settings. His collection of Renaissance Songs is based on the work of several Elizabethan poets, including John Donne and Thomas Lodge. They're brilliantly delivered by tenor Justin Marsh. Bilotta draws on two American poets, Carl Sandburg and Edna St. Vincent Millay, for "Lost" and "Prayer to Persephone," two songs united by a single poetic theme and elegantly performed by soprano Cass Panuska accompanied by pianist Hadley McCarroll, who are also featured on The Hippocampus' Monologue, the closing aria from the first act of Bilotta's opera Rosetta's Stone. Allan Crossman's ten songs on The Life Before Us include four inspired by the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca and an international array of others: from Ireland (James Joyce), Germany (Hermann Claudius and Ricarda Huch), Russia (Alexander Scriabin), and America (Louis Phillips), performed by mezzo-soprano Megan Stetson and bass Richard Mix, with the composer himself at the piano. Crossman's three-movement Sonata fLux, with pianist Keisuke Nakagoshi, flows from the energetic "Moto Atlantico" through the vibrating "fLight of the Firefly" to the swirling fluidity of "Rondo a Pollock" - inspired, as it's title suggests, by Jackson Pollock's 'action painting' technique - and brings the eclectic program to an impressive conclusion.

Tracklist:

  1. Yeats Songs: I. The Lover Pleads With His Friend For Old Friends
  2. Yeats Songs: II. The Moods
  3. Yeats Songs: III. A Drinking Song
  4. Yeats Songs: IV. The Old Men Admiring Themselves In The Water
  5. Yeats Songs: V. Maid Quiet
  6. Renaissance Songs: I. Prisoners
  7. Renaissance Songs: II. The Silver Swan
  8. Renaissance Songs: III. Aubade
  9. Renaissance Songs: IV. Bitter-Sweet
  10. Renaissance Songs: V. A Fancy
  11. 10 Songs: No. 1, New Songs
  12. 10 Songs: No. 2, New Songs 2
  13. 10 Songs: No. 3, Dream
  14. 10 Songs: No. 4, Water
  15. 10 Songs: No. 5, Landscape
  16. 10 Songs: No. 6, Deep In The Heavens
  17. 10 Songs: No. 7, That Windless Hour
  18. 10 Songs: No. 8, Poem Of Ecstasy
  19. 10 Songs: No. 9, The Leaves Murmur In The Wind
  20. 10 Songs: No. 10, My Entire Life Before Me
  21. Piano Sonatina: I. Grazioso E Leggero
  22. Piano Sonatina: II. Adagietto
  23. Piano Sonatina: III. Con Brio
  24. Piano Sonatina No. 2: I. Languido
  25. Piano Sonatina No. 2: II. Delicato
  26. Piano Sonatina No. 2: III. Volando
  27. Piano Sonatina No. 3: I. Giocoso
  28. Piano Sonatina No. 3: II. Andantino
  29. Piano Sonatina No. 3: III. Furioso
  30. Rosetta's Stone: The Hippocampus' Monologue
  31. 2 Songs On American Poetry: No. 1, Lost
  32. 2 Songs On American Poetry: No. 2, Prayer To Persephone
  33. Sonata Flux: I. Moto Atlantico
  34. Sonata Flux: II. Flight Of The Firefly
  35. Sonata Flux: III. Rondo À Pollock

UPC > 896931004534

Format > New CD

Label > Navona

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