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America : a prophecy / Thomas Adès.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 27996
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- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Adès, Thomas, composer, performer.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Latin
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra.
- Choruses (Mixed voices) with organ.
- Choruses, Secular (Men's voices), Unaccompanied.
- Songs (High voice) with piano.
- Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble.
- Instrumental ensembles, Arranged.
- Songs (Medium voice) with orchestra.
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc (59 min., 38 sec.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- Hayes, Middlesex, England : EMI Classics, [2004]
- Language Note:
- Sung in English, Spanish, Latin and German.
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- stereo
- digital recording
- Contents:
- America : a prophecy, op. 19 (15:39)
- The Fayrfax carol (4:02)
- Fool's rhymes, op. 5 (4:24)
- January writ (6:14)
- Oh thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin, op. 3a (4:40)
- The lover in winter (5:40)
- Life story, op. 8 (7:56)
- Cardiac arrest (2:39) / Christopher Foreman, Cathal Smythe ; arr. T. Adès
- Les baricades mistérieuses (2:43) / Couperin ; trans. T. Adès
- Brahms, op. 21 (5:40).
- Participant:
- In the 1st work: Susan Bickley, mezzo-soprano ; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus ; Thomas Adès, conductor. 2nd-5th works: Polyphony ; Stephen Layton, director ; Tom Poster, piano ; Hugh Webb, harp ; Richard Benjafield, percussion (3rd work) ; Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, organ (3rd, 4th works). 6th work: Robin Blaze, countertenor ; Huw Watkins, piano. 7th-9th works: Composers Ensemble ; Thomas Adès, conductor ; Claron McFadden, soprano (7th work). 10th work: Christopher Maltman, baritone ; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Adès, conductor.
- Notes:
- EMI Classics: 7243 5 57610 2 6 (in bold on disc: 5 57610 2).
- The 1st work for mezzo-soprano and large orchestra with large chorus; 2nd work for SATB divisi chorus with organ; 4th work for SATB divisi chorus and organ; 5th work is an anthem for male voices; 6th work is a song cycle of four songs for countertenor and piano; 7th work for soprano and chamber ensemble of three players; 8th work for a chamber ensemble of seven players; 9th work for a chamber ensemble of five players; 10th work for baritone and orchestra.
- Recorded Mar. 2002, Symphony Hall, Birmingham (works 1-2, 10) and Feb. 2003, Temple Church (remainder).
- Compact disc.
- Program notes (35 p.) in English, German, and French and English texts with translations in German and French in container.
- Contains:
- Adès, Thomas. America.
- Adès, Thomas. Fayrfax carol.
- Adès, Thomas. Fool's rhymes.
- Adès, Thomas. January writ.
- Adès, Thomas. O thou who didst with pitfall and with gin.
- Adès, Thomas. Lover in winter.
- Adès, Thomas. Works. Selections
- Foreman, Chris, 1958- Cardiac arrest; arranged.
- Couperin, François, 1668-1733. Pièces de clavecin, 2e livre. No 6. Baricades mystérieuses; arranged.
- Adès, Thomas. Brahms.
- OCLC:
- 243638566
- Publisher Number:
- 724355761026
- 7243 5 57610 2 6 EMI Classics
- 5 57610 2 EMI Classics
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