Howard Hanson: Merry Mount on 2 CDs
Merry Mount
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
- Artists:
- Lauren Flanigan, Walter MacNeil, Richard Zeller, Charles Robert Austin, Seattle Symphony Choral & Orchestra, Seattle Girls' Choir, Gerard Schwarz
- Label:
- Naxos
- Year of recording ca.:
- 1996
- Item number:
- 9420881
- UPC/EAN:
- 0730099691222
- Release date:
- 30.4.2007
- Series:
- Naxos American Classics
• Howard Hanson wurde in Nebraska geboren und ist skandinavischer Abstammung. Er wurde sowohl von Jean Sibelius als auch von seiner amerikanischen Umgebung beeinflusst.
• Die Handlung seiner Oper Merry Mount aus dem Jahr 1933, die 1625 in Neuengland während eines Konflikts zwischen den Puritanern und den Cavaliers spielt, ist alles andere als fröhlich. Der Komponist beschrieb die Musik jedoch als »warmblütig … im Wesentlichen ein lyrisches Werk [das] so oft wie möglich breite Melodielinien verwendet«.
• Diese Aufnahme stammt aus einem von der Kritik gefeierten Paar von Konzertaufführungen des Seattle Symphony Orchestra und Gerard Schwarz im Oktober 1996.
• Hörer, die mit Hansons ersten beiden Symphonien vertraut sind, werden starke melodische und harmonische Ähnlichkeiten mit Merry Mount feststellen. Hansons Erste Symphonie und Merry Mount Suite auf Naxos wurden von The Independent als »hervorragende Aufführungen mit robustem Klang« gelobt.
Disk 1 von 2 (CD)
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1 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act I: Prelude
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2 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act I: Be as a lion, dread Jehovah# From plots of Hell and witcheries (Puritans, Bradford, Bridget,
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3 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act I: Ah - I deny thy Christ (Bradford, Banks, Tewke, Puritans)
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4 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act I: A savoury discourse, good Master Bradford (Bradford, Tewke)
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5 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act I: Last night came One that paced a-down the stairway of the sky (Bradford)
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6 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act I: My son, Thou'rt over-ripe for marriage! (Tewke, Bradford)
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7 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act I: The willow keep to thatch our sleep (Plentiful, Bradford)
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8 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act I: Plentiful Tewke hath catched the preacher! (Love, Bradford, Peregrine Brodrib, Prence, Child
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9 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act I: Gi' you good night, sir# (Prence, Myles Brodrib, Marigold, Bradford, Tinker, Morton, Puritan
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10 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act I: Scratch a Roundhead, find a rebel # Thrones of Earth be idle things (Prence, Scrooby, Tewke,
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11 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act I: Right rev'rend priest, our holy joy # Respect the Sabbath day (Prence, Scrooby, Tewke, Bradf
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12 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act I: Marigold! Lady! # Let us be lions of Jehovah (Bradford, Marigold, Lackland, Myles Brodrib, T
Disk 2 von 2 (CD)
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1 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act II Scene 1: Prelude - I wind and I wind, My true love to find (Men and Women)
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2 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act II Scene 1: From forth the hill # I christen 'Merry Mount' - Maypole Dance (Lackland, Men and W
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3 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act II Scene 1: Long Live the Lady (Men and Women)
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4 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act II Scene 1: Marigold! When the morning stars together sang (Lackland, Marigold, Men and Women)
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5 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act II Scene 1: Methinks I see th'infernal rendezvous of Satan and his bond-slaves (Bradford, Men a
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6 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act II Scene 2: O pity me! Thou alone of women Canst heal this tortured heart (Bradford, Marigold,
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7 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act II Scene 2: Let them strike twice, And I will come to thee! (Marigold)
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8 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act II Scene 2: Hale her to the village, A prisoner# (Tewke, Bradford)
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9 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act II Scene 2: Almighty Father, My King and my God (Bradford, Mystic Voices)
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10 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act II Scene 2: Chorus of Mystic Voices
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11 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act II Scene 3: Alleluia! Alleluia! (Bradford, Lucifer, Monsters, Witches and Demons)
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12 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act II Scene 3: Now thou art mine (Lucifer, Monsters, Witches and Demons, Bradford)
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13 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act II Scene 3: Rise up, my love my fair one (Bradford, Astoreth)
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14 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act Iii Scene 1: Prelude
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15 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act Iii Scene 2: Gird You With Sackcloth (Tewke, Puritans)
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16 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act Iii Scene 2: Never More Shall Prayer Ravish These Lips!# (Bradford, Chorus)
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17 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act Iii Scene 2: Woe, Woe! Lost Sheep Are We (Puritans, Bradford, Myles Brodrib)
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18 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act Iii Scene 2: No Witch Am I; But One That Long Ago Was Happy (Marigold)
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19 Merry Mount, Op. 31: Act Iii Scene 2: Ay, Even Now Thy Lover Frets At Hellgate - Death To The Witch (Bradford, Marigold,
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