FREE UK SHIPPING OVER £30!

American Orchestral Song | Bridge BRIDGE9254

American Orchestral Song

£14.51

Usually available for despatch within 2-3 working days

Label: Bridge

Cat No: BRIDGE9254

Barcode: 0090404925429

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 2nd June 2008

Contents

About

This new release by Bridge is a wonderful collection of American orchestral songs, full of discoveries and surprises.

Pride of place must go to the first recording of Roy Harris' Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun on a text by Walt Whitman. Harris' brilliant monodrama travels from rural America to the streets of Manhattan, all the while observing and commenting on the ravages of the Civil War. It is, in the words of one critic, “a great, lost 20th century American masterpiece, and among Harris' very finest scores.”

The disc includes songs set to Chinese poems by both Griffes and Carpenter, and Virgil Thomson's passionate The Feast of Love. Also featured is another rarity - Horatio Parker's 1893 monodrama, Cahal Mor of the Wine-Red Hand in its premiere recording.

All five works are sung by Grammy-nominated baritone, Patrick Mason accompanied by Denmark's Odense Symphony Orchestra.

Error on this page? Let us know here

Need more information on this product? Click here