Jake Heggie: For a Look or a Touch
For a Look or a Touch
Mit weiteren Werken von:
Gerard Schwarz (geb. 1947)
, Lori Laitman (geb. 1955)
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
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+Schwarz: In Memoriam
+Laitman: The Seed of Dream
- Künstler: Morgan Smith, Julian Patrick, Erich Parce, Music of Remembrance, Mina Miller
- Label: Naxos, DDD, 2006
- Bestellnummer: 1021450
- Erscheinungstermin: 2.5.2008
- Serie: Naxos American Classics
Based on the true story of two teenage lovers the Holocaust tore apart forever, the dramatic song cycle For a Look or a Touch casts long-awaited light on the fate of gay Germans in the Holocaust. By noted young American opera composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer, the work juxtaposes the exuberant freedom of pre-World War II Berlin with the brutal Nazi horrors that followed, while making an eloquent, poignant plea for remembrance. Seattle Symphony's Gerard Schwarz penned In Memoriam, a beautifully meditative, elegiac piece for cello and string quartet, in honor of cellist David Tonkonogui (1958-2003). From acclaimed American art song composer Lori Laitman comes The Seed of Dream, a powerful song cycle based on five poems written by Abraham Sutzkever during his imprisonment in the Vilna Ghetto. The lyrical intensity of these poems bears witness to the transcendent power of art in resistance to the forces of cruelty. These works were commissioned by Music of Remembrance, a Seattle-based non-profit organization dedicated to remembering Holocaust musicians through their art (www. musicofremembrance. org).
- Tracklisting
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 1 For a Look or a Touch: Prelude: Do You Remember?
- 2 For a Look or a Touch: The Voice
- 3 For a Look or a Touch: Golden Years
- 4 For a Look or a Touch: The Story of Joe
- 5 For a Look or a Touch: Silence
- 6 For a Look or a Touch: Der Singende Wald (The Singing Forest)
- 7 For a Look or a Touch: Remember
- 8 In Memoriam
- 9 The Seed of Dream: No. 1. I Lie in This Coffin
- 10 The Seed of Dream: No. 2. A Load of Shoes
- 11 The Seed of Dream: No. 3. To My Child
- 12 The Seed of Dream: No. 4. Beneath the Whiteness of Your Stars
- 13 The Seed of Dream: No. 5. No Sad Songs Please
