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Hanson - Merry Mount | Naxos - Opera 866901213

Hanson - Merry Mount

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Label: Naxos - Opera

Cat No: 866901213

Barcode: 0730099691222

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 30th April 2007

Contents

Artists

Lauren Flanigan
Walter Macneil
Richard Zeller
Charles Robert Austin
Seattle Symphony Chorale
Northwest Boychoir
Seattle Girls’ Choir
Seattle Symphony

Conductor

Gerard Schwarz

Works

Hanson, Howard

Merry Mount

Artists

Lauren Flanigan
Walter Macneil
Richard Zeller
Charles Robert Austin
Seattle Symphony Chorale
Northwest Boychoir
Seattle Girls’ Choir
Seattle Symphony

Conductor

Gerard Schwarz

About

Born in Nebraska, of Scandinavian heritage, Howard Hanson was influenced as much by Jean Sibelius as by his American surroundings.
 
The plot of his 1933 opera, Merry Mount, set in New England in 1625 during a conflict between the Puritans and the Cavaliers, is anything but merry. However, the composer described the music as “warm-blooded…essentially a lyrical work [that] makes use of broad melodic lines as often as possible”. 
 
This recording derives from a critically acclaimed pair of concert performances by Seattle Symphony and Gerard Schwarz in October 1996. Listeners familiar with Hanson’s first two symphonies will find strong melodic and harmonic affinities with Merry Mount.
 
Cast:
Lady Marigold Sandys . . . Lauren Flanigan
Sir Gower Lackland . . . Walter MacNeil
Wrestling Bradford . . . Richard Zeller
Praise-God Tewke . . . Charles Robert Austin

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