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Garfein / Slattery / Hall- Mortality Mansions

SKU: 013491354828
¥133.00
the album cover for Garfein / Slattery / Hall - Mortality Mansions
the album cover for Garfein / Slattery / Hall - Mortality Mansions

In this unique Delos album, two-time Grammy Award-winning composer, librettist, and producer Herschel Garfein introduces Mortality Mansions: a stunning new song cycle setting poems by former U.S. poet laureate Donald Hall. Hall's plain-spoken, yet profound poetry reveals his candid perspectives on aging, with it's inevitable physical decline, fears, personal losses, and emotional trials. Yet he balances these negative aspects with such persisting joys and pleasures as loving companionship and physical intimacy. Garfein's music effectively envelops Hall's verses like a glove, illuminating their attendant moods, potent emotions, and stark verbal imagery. The album includes an interlude of Hall's readings of his poetry, and ends with a memorable epilogue: Garfein's pensive setting of a moving poem by Jane Kenyon, Hall's late wife. Tenor Michael Slattery performs the song cycle brilliantly, and soprano Marnie Breckenridge interprets the epilogue to devastating effect. Exceptional piano collaboration comes courtesy of Dimitri Dover.

Tracklist:

  1. Mortality Mansions: No. 1, When The Young Husband
  2. Mortality Mansions: No. 2, When I Was Young
  3. Mortality Mansions: No. 3, Woolworth's
  4. Mortality Mansions: No. 4, The Green Shelf
  5. Mortality Mansions: No. 5, Fête
  6. Mortality Mansions: No. 6, The Young Watch Us
  7. Mortality Mansions: No. 7, Summer Kitchen
  8. Mortality Mansions: No. 8, Dying Is Simple, She Said
  9. Mortality Mansions: No. 9, Deathwork
  10. Mortality Mansions: No. 10, Freezes And Junes
  11. Mortality Mansions: No. 11, Gold
  12. Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 1, When The Young Husband
  13. Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 2, When I Was Young
  14. Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 3, Woolworth's
  15. Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 4, The Green Shelf
  16. Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 5, Fête
  17. Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 6, The Young Watch Us
  18. Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 7, Summer Kitchen
  19. Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 8, Dying Is Simple, She Said
  20. Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 9, Deathwork
  21. Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 10, Freezes And Junes
  22. Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 11, Gold
  23. Otherwise
Format: New CD/Classical

Garfein / Slattery / Hall- Mortality Mansions

SKU: 013491354828
¥133.00

Release Date: 06.08.2018

 
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In this unique Delos album, two-time Grammy Award-winning composer, librettist, and producer Herschel Garfein introduces Mortality Mansions: a stunning new song cycle setting poems by former U.S. poet laureate Donald Hall. Hall's plain-spoken, yet profound poetry reveals his candid perspectives on aging, with it's inevitable physical decline, fears, personal losses, and emotional trials. Yet he balances these negative aspects with such persisting joys and pleasures as loving companionship and physical intimacy. Garfein's music effectively envelops Hall's verses like a glove, illuminating their attendant moods, potent emotions, and stark verbal imagery. The album includes an interlude of Hall's readings of his poetry, and ends with a memorable epilogue: Garfein's pensive setting of a moving poem by Jane Kenyon, Hall's late wife. Tenor Michael Slattery performs the song cycle brilliantly, and soprano Marnie Breckenridge interprets the epilogue to devastating effect. Exceptional piano collaboration comes courtesy of Dimitri Dover.

Tracklist:

  1. Mortality Mansions: No. 1, When The Young Husband
  2. Mortality Mansions: No. 2, When I Was Young
  3. Mortality Mansions: No. 3, Woolworth's
  4. Mortality Mansions: No. 4, The Green Shelf
  5. Mortality Mansions: No. 5, Fête
  6. Mortality Mansions: No. 6, The Young Watch Us
  7. Mortality Mansions: No. 7, Summer Kitchen
  8. Mortality Mansions: No. 8, Dying Is Simple, She Said
  9. Mortality Mansions: No. 9, Deathwork
  10. Mortality Mansions: No. 10, Freezes And Junes
  11. Mortality Mansions: No. 11, Gold
  12. Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 1, When The Young Husband
  13. Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 2, When I Was Young
  14. Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 3, Woolworth's
  15. Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 4, The Green Shelf
  16. Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 5, Fête
  17. Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 6, The Young Watch Us
  18. Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 7, Summer Kitchen
  19. Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 8, Dying Is Simple, She Said
  20. Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 9, Deathwork
  21. Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 10, Freezes And Junes
  22. Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 11, Gold
  23. Otherwise