Samuel Barber: Chorwerke on CD
Chorwerke
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map; Under the Willow Tree; Twelfth Nicht; To e sung on the water; The Monk and his Cat; Agnus Dei (Adagio for Strings); Reincarnations; The Virgin Martyrs; Let Down the Bars, O Death; Heaven-haven; Sure on this shining night; Chorale for Ascension Day (Easter Chorale); 2 Chöre aus "Antony & Cleopatra"; God's Grandeur
- Artists:
- Choir of Ormond College Melbourne, Douglas Lawrence
- Label:
- Naxos
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2000
- Item number:
- 8751289
- UPC/EAN:
- 0636943905326
- Release date:
- 5.2.2007
- Series:
- Naxos American Classics
Setting texts for chorus or solo songs occupied Samuel Barber throughout his creative life. In particular he sought out English and Irish writers, many of whose melancholic and nostalgic texts aptly matched his own musically romantic persuasion. A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map is a disturbing setting of a poem by Stephen Spender describing the death of a soldier in the Spanish Civil War, during which the poet had spent time in Spain. The elegiac and now extraordinarily popular Adagio for Strings is heard in the composer's own choral version, Agnus Dei, to words from the Latin Mass. God's Grandeur is one of Barber's most ambitious and advanced unaccompanied settings.
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map, Op. 15
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2 Under the Willow Tree
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3 2 Pieces, Op. 42: No. 1. Twelfth Night
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4 2 Pieces, Op. 42: No. 2. To be sung on the Water
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5 The Monk and his Cat
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6 Agnus Dei, Op. 11
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7 Reincarnations, Op. 16: I. Mary Hynes
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8 Reincarnations, Op. 16: II. Anthony O'Daly
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9 Reincarnations, Op. 16: III. The Coolin
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10 Let down the bars, O Death, Op. 8, No. 2: No. 1. The Virgin Martyrs
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11 Let down the bars, O Death, Op. 8, No. 2: No. 2. Let down the bars, O Death
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12 4 Songs, Op. 13: No. 1. Heaven-haven
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13 4 Songs, Op. 13: No. 3. Sure on this shining night
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14 Chorale for Ascension Day (Easter Chorale)
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15 Antony and Cleopatra, Op. 40: On the death of Anthony
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16 Antony and Cleopatra, Op. 40: On the death of Cleopatra
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17 God's Grandeur: God#s Grandeur
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