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Songs of innocence and of experience / William Bolcom.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 30970
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- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Bolcom, William.
- Series:
- American classics (Naxos (Sound recording label))
- American classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blake, William, 1757-1827--Musical settings.
- Blake, William.
- Blake, William, 1757-1827.
- Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with orchestra.
- Genre:
- Musical settings.
- Sound recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 3 audio discs (2 hr., 17 min., 11 sec.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- [Hong Kong] : Naxos, [2004]
- Language Note:
- Sung in English.
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- stereo
- digital recording
- Contents:
- CD 1. Songs of innocence. Part I. Introduction ; The ecchoing [sic] green ; The lamb
- The shepherd ; Infant joy ; The little black boy
- Part II. Laughing song ; Spring ; A cradle song ; Nurse's song ; Holy Thursday ; The blossom ; Interlude ; The chimney sweeper ; The divine image
- Part III. Nocturne ; Night ; A dream ; On another's sorrow ; The little boy lost ; The little boy found ; Coda.
- CD 2. Songs of experience, volume I, part I. Introduction ; Hear the voice of the bard ; Interlude ; Earth's answer
- Part II. Nurse's song ; The fly ; The tyger ; The little girl lost ; In the southern clime ; The little girl found
- Part III. The clod and the pebble ; The little vagabond ; Holy Thursday ; A poison tree ; The angel ; The sick rose ; To Tirzah.
- CD 3. Songs of experience, volume 2, part IV. The voice of the ancient bard ; My pretty rose tree ; Ah! Sun-flower ; The lilly [sic]
- Part V. Introduction to part V ; The garden of love ; A little boy lost ; A little girl lost ; Infant sorrow ; Vocalise
- Part VI. London ; The school-boy ; The chimney sweeper ; The human abstract
- Interlude: voces clamandae ; A divine image.
- Participant:
- Christine Brewer, Measha Brueggergosman, Ilana Davidson, Linda Hohenfeld, Carmen Pelton, sopranos ; Joan Morris, mezzo-soprano ; Marietta Simpson, contralto ; Thomas Young, tenor ; Nmon Ford, baritone ; Nathan Lee Graham, speaker/vocals ; Tommy Morgan, harmonica ; Peter "Madcat" Ruth, harmonica and vocals ; Jeremy Kittel, fiddle ; University Musical Society ; University of Michigan School of Music Symphony Orchestra ; Leonard Slatkin, conductor.
- Notes:
- Grammy Award: Best Classical Album (2005)
- Naxos: 8.559216--8.559218 (on container: 8.559216-18).
- "A musical illumination of the poems of William Blake"--Insert.
- Live concert recorded Apr. 9-10, 2004, Hill Audtiorium, University of Michigan.
- Compact discs.
- Program notes and texts in English (39 p. : ports.) inserted in container.
- A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Music, 1985
- OCLC:
- 56935901
- Publisher Number:
- 636943921623
- 8.559216--8.559218 Naxos
- 8.559216-18 Naxos
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