She Walks in Beauty: Chamber Music and Songs of Luening and Starer
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Label: Parnassus
Cat No: PACD96012
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Contents
Works
At Christmas TimeSelected Songs to Poems of William Blake
Songs (9) to Poems of Emily Dickinson
Transience
Venilia
Images of Man
Letter to a Composer
The Ideal Self
Artists
Danielle Woerner (soprano)Robert Starer (piano)
Sylvia Buccelli (piano)
Patricia Spencer (flute)
Marcia Gates (flute)
Jean Kopperud (clarinet)
Susan Seligman (cello)
The Hudson Valley Philharmonic String Quartet
Works
At Christmas TimeSelected Songs to Poems of William Blake
Songs (9) to Poems of Emily Dickinson
Transience
Venilia
Images of Man
Letter to a Composer
The Ideal Self
Artists
Danielle Woerner (soprano)Robert Starer (piano)
Sylvia Buccelli (piano)
Patricia Spencer (flute)
Marcia Gates (flute)
Jean Kopperud (clarinet)
Susan Seligman (cello)
The Hudson Valley Philharmonic String Quartet
About
‘The album takes its title from one of the songs of Otto Luening, who is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking electronic music work in the 1950s, his flute pieces, and his short orchestral works. Otto has been under-represented as a marvelous composer of songs and chamber music including the voice. He was a friend and mentor to me for some 16 years, until his death in 1996, and we collaborated on many musical projects together. All the Luening repertoire on this CD was coached and/or performed with him at one time or another, and he helped us choose the pieces for this recording. One of the Blake songs, “Ah! Sun-flower”, was written for me in 1984.
‘Robert Starer and I have collaborated on performances of his music since 1991; his performances as pianist on this disk in Images of Man (a major song cycle for soprano, flute, cello & piano) and The Ideal Self are the composer’s first recorded performances in several decades. Robert wrote Letter to a Composer for me as an orchestral piece in 1995, and re-scored it for chamber ensemble for this recording.
‘There are poetic connections as well as musical ones to the program – songs to poems of William Blake by both composers; pieces featuring voice with flute by both; vocalises as well as the songs WITH words; and the attention which both composers have paid to their poetic texts by Blake, Byron, Emily Dickinson, Gail Godwin, and others.
‘The recording includes performances by a couple of internationally-renowned wind players – Pat Spencer and Jean Kopperud – as well as some of the best instrumentalists in NY’s Hudson Valley. We recorded it at Grammy Award-winning engineer Tom Mark’s studio in West Shokan, NY – recording in analog to keep the warmth of a small concert-hall setting, and editing in digital. Composer Baikida Carroll was music producer.’
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