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FORMAT: New CD • UPC: 013491354828
GENRE: Classical • RECORD LABEL: Delos Records
RELEASE DATE: 06/08/18
Garfein / Slattery / Hall - Mortality Mansions (CD)
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Garfein / Slattery / Hall - Mortality Mansions (CD)
DESCRIPTION
In this unique Delos album, two-time Grammy Award-winning composer, librettist, and producer Herschel Garfein introduces Mortality Mansions: a stunning new song cycle setting poems by former U.S. poet laureate Donald Hall. Hall's plain-spoken, yet profound poetry reveals his candid perspectives on aging, with it's inevitable physical decline, fears, personal losses, and emotional trials. Yet he balances these negative aspects with such persisting joys and pleasures as loving companionship and physical intimacy. Garfein's music effectively envelops Hall's verses like a glove, illuminating their attendant moods, potent emotions, and stark verbal imagery. The album includes an interlude of Hall's readings of his poetry, and ends with a memorable epilogue: Garfein's pensive setting of a moving poem by Jane Kenyon, Hall's late wife. Tenor Michael Slattery performs the song cycle brilliantly, and soprano Marnie Breckenridge interprets the epilogue to devastating effect. Exceptional piano collaboration comes courtesy of Dimitri Dover.
Tracklist:
- Mortality Mansions: No. 1, When The Young Husband
- Mortality Mansions: No. 2, When I Was Young
- Mortality Mansions: No. 3, Woolworth's
- Mortality Mansions: No. 4, The Green Shelf
- Mortality Mansions: No. 5, Fête
- Mortality Mansions: No. 6, The Young Watch Us
- Mortality Mansions: No. 7, Summer Kitchen
- Mortality Mansions: No. 8, Dying Is Simple, She Said
- Mortality Mansions: No. 9, Deathwork
- Mortality Mansions: No. 10, Freezes And Junes
- Mortality Mansions: No. 11, Gold
- Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 1, When The Young Husband
- Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 2, When I Was Young
- Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 3, Woolworth's
- Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 4, The Green Shelf
- Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 5, Fête
- Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 6, The Young Watch Us
- Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 7, Summer Kitchen
- Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 8, Dying Is Simple, She Said
- Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 9, Deathwork
- Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 10, Freezes And Junes
- Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 11, Gold
- Otherwise
UPC: 013491354828
Label: Delos Records
Release Date: 6.8.18
Format: CD
TRACK LIST
Tracklist:
- Mortality Mansions: No. 1, When The Young Husband
- Mortality Mansions: No. 2, When I Was Young
- Mortality Mansions: No. 3, Woolworth's
- Mortality Mansions: No. 4, The Green Shelf
- Mortality Mansions: No. 5, Fête
- Mortality Mansions: No. 6, The Young Watch Us
- Mortality Mansions: No. 7, Summer Kitchen
- Mortality Mansions: No. 8, Dying Is Simple, She Said
- Mortality Mansions: No. 9, Deathwork
- Mortality Mansions: No. 10, Freezes And Junes
- Mortality Mansions: No. 11, Gold
- Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 1, When The Young Husband
- Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 2, When I Was Young
- Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 3, Woolworth's
- Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 4, The Green Shelf
- Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 5, Fête
- Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 6, The Young Watch Us
- Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 7, Summer Kitchen
- Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 8, Dying Is Simple, She Said
- Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 9, Deathwork
- Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 10, Freezes And Junes
- Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 11, Gold
- Otherwise
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