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Flower of the mountain ; Into eclipse / Stephen Albert.
LIBRA None. 791532 CD
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Albert, Stephen, 1941-1992.
- Standardized Title:
- Distant hills coming nigh. Flower of the mountain
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941--Musical settings.
- Joyce, James.
- Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998--Musical settings.
- Hughes, Ted.
- Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998.
- Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
- Songs (High voice) with orchestra.
- Song cycles.
- Musical settings.
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Songs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Flower of the mountain.
- Into eclipse.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Elektra Nonesuch, 1987.
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- stereo
- digital recording
- Contents:
- Into eclipse. Prologue (3:14) ; Riddle song (4:08) ; Oedipus I (3:51) ; A quiet fate (6:34) ; Ghosts (5:17) ; Oedipus II (7:55).
- Participant:
- Lucy Shelton, soprano, New York Chamber Symphony of the 92nd Street Y, Gerard Schwarz, conductor (in the 1st work) ; David Gordon, tenor, 20th Century Consort, Christopher Kendall, conductor (in the 2nd).
- Notes:
- Elektra Nonesuch: 79153-2 (on container: 9 79153-2).
- For soprano (1st work) or tenor (2nd work) with chamber orchestra. The 2nd work a song cycle.
- Text of the 1st work extracted from Molly Bloom's soliloquy from James Joyce's Ulysses; words of the 2nd work based on Ted Hughes' adaptation of Seneca's Oedipus. Sung in English.
- Compact disc.
- 1st work a digital recording; 2nd work an analog recording.
- Durations: 16:16; 31:18.
- Program notes "adapted from a note by Joseph Horowitz" (1st work) or "adapted from a note by Mary Lou Humphrey" (2nd work), interview with the composer by Christopher Kendall, and texts ([12] p. : ill.) inserted in container.
- Recorded May 1986, RCA Studios, New York City (1st work) and August 1982, Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church, Bethesda, Md. (2nd work).
- Flower of the mountain was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Music, 1987
- Contains:
- Albert, Stephen, 1941-1992. Into eclipse.
- OCLC:
- 17009223
- Publisher Number:
- 79153-2 Elektra Nonesuch
- 9 79153-2 Elektra Nonesuch
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