Elinor Armer: To the Western Sea - Remembering Ursula K. Le Guin

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Label
Centaur Records
Release Date
October 7, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Elinor Armer
    • PERFORMER
      Elinor Armer, Wendy Hillhouse, Esther Landau, Rira Watanabe, Keisuke Nakagoshi, Erica Johnson, Mariy
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 07, 2022
    • UPC
      044747395821
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CRC3958
    • LABEL
      Centaur Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. The Anger

      Composer: Elinor Armer

      Performer: Wendy Hillhouse, Esther Landau, Rira Watanabe, Keisuke Nakagoshi, Erica Johnson

    2. No. 2. The Child on the Shore

      Composer: Elinor Armer

      Performer: Wendy Hillhouse, Esther Landau, Rira Watanabe, Keisuke Nakagoshi, Erica Johnson

    3. No. 3. Footnote

      Composer: Elinor Armer

      Performer: Wendy Hillhouse, Esther Landau, Rira Watanabe, Keisuke Nakagoshi, Erica Johnson

    4. No. 4. Hard Words

      Composer: Elinor Armer

      Performer: Wendy Hillhouse, Esther Landau, Rira Watanabe, Keisuke Nakagoshi, Erica Johnson

    5. No. 5. For Katya

      Composer: Elinor Armer

      Performer: Wendy Hillhouse, Esther Landau, Rira Watanabe, Keisuke Nakagoshi, Erica Johnson

    6. No. 1. The Old Lady

      Composer: Elinor Armer

      Performer: Mariya Kaganskaya, Elinor Armer

    7. No. 2. The Housewife

      Composer: Elinor Armer

      Performer: Mariya Kaganskaya, Elinor Armer

    8. No. 3. The Forsaken Shepherdess

      Composer: Elinor Armer

      Performer: Mariya Kaganskaya, Elinor Armer

    9. No. 4. The Mute

      Composer: Elinor Armer

      Performer: Mariya Kaganskaya, Elinor Armer

    10. No. 5. The Lorelei to Heinrich Heine

      Composer: Elinor Armer

      Performer: Mariya Kaganskaya, Elinor Armer

    11. No. 6. The Little Girl

      Composer: Elinor Armer

      Performer: Mariya Kaganskaya, Elinor Armer

    12. No. 7. Anonyma

      Composer: Elinor Armer

      Performer: Mariya Kaganskaya, Elinor Armer

    13. No. 1. Come to Dust

      Composer: Elinor Armer

      Performer: Kindra Scharich, Lois Brandwynne

    14. No. 2. To the Rain

      Composer: Elinor Armer

      Performer: Kindra Scharich, Lois Brandwynne

    15. No. 3. On the Western Shore

      Composer: Elinor Armer

      Performer: Kindra Scharich, Lois Brandwynne

    16. Lavinia's Vision

      Composer: Elinor Armer

      Performer: Mariya Kaganskaya, Elinor Armer


This is an album of music set to poems of Ursula K. Le Guin, the great fantasy writer of books and poems. The composer, Elinor, had a nearly 40-year friendship with the great writer. Widely performed throughout the U.S. and abroad, Elinor Armer’s music reflects her persona in its high-hearted originality. It includes solo, chamber, orchestral, vocal and choral works, and is marked by harmonic beauty, strong narrative line, rhythmic energy, sensitivity to language, emotional expressiveness, and humor.