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She Walks in Beauty: Chamber Music and Songs of Luening and Starer | Parnassus PACD96012

She Walks in Beauty: Chamber Music and Songs of Luening and Starer

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Label: Parnassus

Cat No: PACD96012

Barcode: 6063450001124

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Contents

Works

Luening, Otto

At Christmas Time
Selected Songs to Poems of William Blake
» Ah! Sun-flower
» Love's Secret
» The Little Vagabond
She Walks in Beauty
Songs (9) to Poems of Emily Dickinson
» Hope is the thing with feathers
» If I can stop one heart from breaking
» I felt a cleavage in my mind
» Our share of night to bear
The Soundless Song
Transience
Venilia

Starer, Robert

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

Luening, Otto

At Christmas Time
Selected Songs to Poems of William Blake
» Ah! Sun-flower
» Love's Secret
» The Little Vagabond
She Walks in Beauty
Songs (9) to Poems of Emily Dickinson
» Hope is the thing with feathers
» If I can stop one heart from breaking
» I felt a cleavage in my mind
» Our share of night to bear
The Soundless Song
Transience
Venilia

Starer, Robert

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

‘This CD was a joy to conceive and produce: the fruit of many years’ planning and close musical association with the two composers whose work is represented. Most of it is previously unrecorded, or has long been out of print.

‘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.’
– Danielle Woerner

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