S. Prokofiev Radio Hour
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CD Details
- Released: October 9, 2015
- Originally Released: 2015
- Label: Delos Records
Tracks:
- 1.A Really Bad Day
- 2.Through the Door
- 3.A New Day
- 4.Patterns
- 5.I Shall Not Live in Vain
- 6.He Will Gather Us Around
- 7.He Will Gather Us Around
Product Description:
Initially regarded as a master composer of art songs, Jake Heggie has since become known as perhaps America's leading contemporary composer of internationally acclaimed operas. Winning examples of both genres appear on this release: the world premiere recording of a short, one-act opera, The Radio Hour - as well as four shorter vocal pieces. The Radio Hour - the world's first-ever "choral opera" - is a compact work for silent actress, with running narrative and commentary from a choir. The program is rounded out with four mostly art song-based works in varied arrangements, several with choral elements, sung by the vaunted John Alexander Singers. Susan Graham, one of America's most beloved mezzo-sopranos, is heard in three of the shorter pieces; Pacific Symphony members provide the instrumentals. "A masterpiece of clarity and intensity, with a score that is at once thematically compact and richly inventive." San Francisco Chronicle (review of Jake Heggie's opera "Moby Dick")