Charles Wuorinen: Fenton Songs I & II
Fenton Songs I & II
Lucy Shelton, Leon Williams, James Pugh, Mark Steinberg, Sarah Rothenberg, Alan Feinberg, Brentano String Quartet
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
- +Ashberyana; Praegustatum; Ave Chrie of Josquin; Josquiniana
- Künstler: Lucy Shelton, Leon Williams, James Pugh, Mark Steinberg, Sarah Rothenberg, Alan Feinberg, Brentano String Quartet u. a.
- Label: Naxos, DDD, 2005/2007
- Bestellnummer: 1821445
- Erscheinungstermin: 2.5.2008
- Serie: Naxos American Classics
The music of distinguished American composer Charles Wuorinen is notable for its compositional wit, dynamic virtuosity and intellectual rigor. This CD features vocal chamber works from the late 1990s to 2007, a new piano work, and Wuorinen's »remakings« of music by Josquin des Prés. Ashberyana, a major new work commissioned by Da Camera of Houston, sets the dazzling poetry of John Ashbery for a tour-deforce ensemble led by the composer. Fenton Songs I and Fenton Songs II offer contrasting poems by James Fenton, ranging from lyrical confessions of love to the horrors of Tiananmen Square. Two personal solo piano pieces – one dedicated to conductor James Levine – and Josquiniana, composed for the Brentano Quartet, complete this compelling portrait of one of today's most important musical voices.
- Tracklisting
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 1 Ashberyana: I. Introduction and Recitative: Outside My Window the Japanese#
- 2 Ashberyana: IIa. Scherzo: Laughing Gravy
- 3 Ashberyana: IIb. Scherzo: Dear Sir or Madam
- 4 Ashberyana: Iii. The Laughter Of Dead Men
- 5 Praegustatum
- 6 Fenton Songs I: No. 1. Beauty, Danger and Dismay
- 7 Fenton Songs I: No. 2. Out of Danger
- 8 Fenton Songs I: No. 3. Serious
- 9 Fenton Songs I: No. 4. Hinterhof
- 10 Fenton Songs II: No. 1. Blood and Lead
- 11 Fenton Songs II: No. 2. Tiananmen
- 12 Fenton Songs II: No. 3. The Ballad of the Shrieking Man
- 13 Fenton Songs II: No. 4. Fireflies of the Sea
- 14 Josquin: Ave Christe
- 15 Josquiniana: I. Helas madame
- 16 Josquiniana: II. Faulte d'argent
- 17 Josquiniana: Iii. Cela Sans Plus
- 18 Josquiniana: IV. Comment peult
- 19 Josquiniana: V. Vive le Roy
- 20 Josquiniana: VI. El Grillo, "Josquin a'Ascanio"
