Carter Edtion, Vol. 1: Vocal Works (1975-1981)
Carter Edtion, Vol. 1: Vocal Works (1975-1981)
又名: 卡特作品集卷一：声乐/《弗罗斯特诗集》《踌躇镜前》《丁香花》《睡中惊雷》
表演者: Patrick Mason/David Starobin/Christine Schadeberg/Donald Palma/Katherine Ciesinski/Jan Opalach/William Purvis/Jon Garrison/Robert Black/Speculum Musicae
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 1993-02-19
唱片数: 1
出版者: Bridge
条形码: 0090404901423
专辑简介
Between 1975 and 1981, Elliot Carter produced his remarkable vocal trilogy: A Mirror on Which to Dwell, Syringa, and In Sleep, in Thunder. Bridge's CD marks the first integral recording of the three works, and also includes the premiere recording of Carter's 1980 orchestration, Three Poems of Robert Frost. These recordings were made under the composer's supervision, and feature Speculum Musicae, with whom Carter has worked closely during the past twenty years.
This reading of In Sleep, In Thunder has tenor Jon Garrison singing Carter's musical setting of six Robert Lowell poems. Speculum Musicae grasps the piece's broad-based low-end sweeps expertly, flanging when Garrison's voice seems to unlock and bellow. The music shudders as the tenor considers Lowell's lines, emphasizing the conflicted poetics with interjections that interrupt each other shatteringly. While the Lowell poems allow Carter a fairly costly emotional investigation of personality and conflict, A Mirror on Which to Dwell peeks in on the development of sonic characters, again taken on with snappy know-it-allness of musical directions this side of World War II. The music chases itself, with woodwind blurts shadowing fast-moving string slashes and percussive piano washes, all occasionally wafting into dusty quiet--a recessive sonic area that works wonderfully in relation to Elizabeth Bishop's texts. Very little in these pieces resolves itself, and the music's sum effect is a multiplicity of tonal characters that create their own space, all the while in uneasy proximity to the other spaces. With the Three Poems of Robert Frost (composed in 1942) moving with Patrick Mason's baritone bellow and Syringa sung by mezzo-soprano Katherine Ciesinski (texts by John Ashberry), the palette of tonal ranges and dynamic changes is extremely wide on this set. --Andrew Bartlett
曲目
ELLIOTT CARTER
3 Poems of Robert Frost
01. I. Dust of Snow 01:22
02. II. The Rose Family 01:20
03. III. The Line Gang 02:00
Patrick Mason, baritone
David Starobin, Conductor
A Mirror on Which to Dwell
04. I. Anaphora 03:12
06. II. Argument 02:29
06. III. Sandpiper 02:17
07. IV. Insomnia 02:36
08. V. View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress 02:53
09. VI. O Breath 03:21
Christine Schadeberg, soprano
Donald Palma, Conductor
10. Syringa 18:53
Katherine Ciesinski, mezzo-soprano / Jan Opalach, bass-baritone
William Purvis, Conductor
In Sleep, in Thunder
11. I. Dolphin 03:04
12. II. Across the Yard: La Ignota 03:15
13. III. Harriet 03:34
14. IV. Dies Irae 03:16
15. V. Careless Night 04:30
16. VI. In Genesis 02:30
Jon Garrison, tenor
Robert Black, Conductor
Speculum Musicae