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Alexander Goehr: Sing, Ariel; The Mouse Metamorphosed into a Maid; The Death of MosesLucy Shelton Soprano
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A central figure in the British avant-garde, Alexander Goehr founded the New Music Manchester Group with composers Peter Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle. Like his fellows, he has composed music that is challenging, theatrical, and startlingly original, regularly adapting elements of modal and tonal music into his sublimated serial language. However, Goehr's music is more abstract, gentle, and introspective than that of his peers, and the net effect of his works is one of glowing sonorities and delicate fragments that kaleidoscopically shift. This NMC reissue on the archival label Ancora presents three vocal works that represent the composer at his peak. Sing, Ariel is a quasi-dramatic interpretation of English texts drawn from 15 poets ranging from Campion to Auden. This shimmering song cycle receives a marvelous performance from soprano Lucy Shelton and fine ensemble playing directed by Oliver Knussen. Shelton also turns in an ethereal account of The Mouse Metamorphosed into a Maid, a setting for unaccompanied soprano of Marianne Moore's magical poem. The Death of Moses is a cantata in which Renaissance techniques are smoothly blended with modern devices. Stephen Cleobury leads an ensemble of vocalists, choirs, and instrumentalists to powerful effect in this tragic work, which in many places is evocative of the neo-Classical style of Stravinsky. © Blair Sanderson, Rovi
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Alexander Goehr ComposerSing, Ariel WorkRecorded 1991
51:18
Sarah Leonard Soprano,
David White Saxophone (Tenor),
John Wallace Trumpet,
Ian Brown Piano,
Oliver Knussen Ensemble Director,
Lucy Shelton Soprano,
Marcia Crayford Violin,
Eileen Hulse Soprano,
Chi-chi Nwanoku Double Bass
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| 1 | Part 1. Sing, Ariel, sing | 4:23 |
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| 2 | Part 1. He ceast, and then gan | 0:14 |
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| 3 | Part 1. Fughetta (sopra un sogetto di O. Messiaen) | 0:42 |
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| 4 | Part 1. Tell her that she sheds | 1:54 |
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| 5 | Part 1. Such a sacred and home-felt delight | 0:28 |
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| 6 | Part 1. Rose-cheeked Laura, come | 1:30 |
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| 7 | Part 1. (Echo) Such sober certainty | 0:19 |
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| 8 | Part 2. O you are well-tun'd now! | 0:53 |
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| 9 | Part 2. Old lecher with a love on every wind | 2:29 |
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| 10 | Part 2. Across the street a tenor whine | 3:27 |
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| 11 | Part 2. With woeful measures wan Despair | 0:42 |
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| 12 | Part 2. Thus I, faltering forward | 2:28 |
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| 13 | Part 2. Postlude | 2:15 |
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| 14 | Part 3. ... Rebuke the raging heart | 0:55 |
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| 15 | Part 3. There is so much to celebrate | 1:20 |
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| 16 | Part 3. Instrumental | 0:16 |
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| 17 | Part 3. I see them all, so excellently fair! | 0:13 |
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| 18 | Part 3. ... My unground grain | 0:17 |
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| 19 | Part 3. The time of year has grown indifferent | 3:52 |
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| 20 | Part 4. Adagio (with cadenza) ... Unanxious one, sing | 6:22 |
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| 21 | Part 4. I squeezed up the last stair | 5:41 |
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| 22 | Part 5. Thou hast neither youth nor age | 0:56 |
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| 23 | Part 5. The palm at the end of the mind | 3:13 |
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| 24 | Part 5. (Echo) Without human meaning | 1:04 |
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| 25 | Part 5. All's in deep sleep and night | 1:05 |
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| 26 | Part 5. The rock of autumn, glittering | 1:29 |
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| 27 | Part 5. (No.1 completed) ... Brilliantly, lightly | 2:51 |
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Alexander Goehr ComposerThe Mouse Metamorphosed into a Maid WorkRecorded 1991
Lucy Shelton Soprano
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| 28 | The Mouse Metamorphosed into a Maid | 13:30 |
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Alexander Goehr ComposerThe Death of Moses, cantata for 5 soloists, chorus, children's voices & 13 instruments, Op.53 WorkRecorded 1993
55:17
Christopher Hind Percussion,
Tim Holmes Saxophone (Soprano),
Cambridge University Musical Society Chorus/Choir,
Hugh Webb Harp,
Nina Thompson Flute (Alto),
David Hockings Percussion,
Stephen Cleobury Conductor,
Gautam Rangarajan Tenor,
Michael Chance Countertenor,
Martin Robertson Saxophone (Soprano),
Shelagh Sutherland Keyboard,
Paul Robinson Bass,
James Casey Trombone,
Lucy Shelton Soprano,
Alastair Ross Keyboard,
Helen Keen Piccolo,
Phillip Brown Trombone (Bass),
Stephen Richardson Baritone,
Sarah Leonard Soprano,
David Whitson Trombone,
John Lunn Guitar (Bass),
Jan MacLeod Conductor,
Lynette Levitt Soloist,
Sawston Village College Chamber Choir Chorus/Choir
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| 1 | Let me sing of the tears | 1:01 |
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| 2 | Man's fears are the fires that die | 2:49 |
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| 3 | To the man who emanated light | 4:08 |
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| 4 | Today is now my last | 5:06 |
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| 5 | And there he saw not only to the end | 4:56 |
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| 6 | I will not die! Why should I die? | 3:32 |
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| 7 | O Earth! | 6:42 |
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| 8 | All creatures were formed | 4:09 |
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| 9 | But then when Moses finally saw | 9:59 |
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| 10 | But others tell it differently | 3:14 |
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| 11 | Nor did his mother, Jochebed | 9:41 |
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