BOLCOM: Songs

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
June 21, 2005
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BOLCOM
    • PERFORMER
      Carole Farley, William Bolcom
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 21, 2005
    • UPC
      636943924921
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8559249
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Vocal
    Works ⌄

    1. Greatshot: You Cannot Have Me Now - or, The Military Orgy

      Composer: William Bolcom

    2. Casino Paradise: Night Make My Day

      Composer: William Bolcom

    3. The Digital Wonder Watch (An Advertisment)

      Composer: William Bolcom

    4. Casino Paradise: My Father the Gangster

      Composer: William Bolcom

    5. The Last Days of Mankind

      Composer: William Bolcom

    6. This is a face

      Composer: William Bolcom

    7. Since I have met you

      Composer: William Bolcom

    8. The rabbit

      Composer: William Bolcom

    9. I am not free

      Composer: William Bolcom

    10. For me there is no song

      Composer: William Bolcom

    11. From wandering in the forest

      Composer: William Bolcom

    12. Beware

      Composer: William Bolcom

    13. I wouldn't die without love

      Composer: William Bolcom

    14. I remember

      Composer: William Bolcom

    15. For everything turned false

      Composer: William Bolcom

    16. I have climbed

      Composer: William Bolcom

    17. Pity Me Not Because the Light of Day

      Composer: William Bolcom

    18. How to Swing those Obbligatos Around

      Composer: William Bolcom

    19. The Crazy Women

      Composer: William Bolcom

    20. Just Once

      Composer: William Bolcom

    21. Never More Will the Wind

      Composer: William Bolcom

    22. The Sage

      Composer: William Bolcom

    23. O to Be a Dragon

      Composer: William Bolcom

    24. The Bustle in a House

      Composer: William Bolcom

    25. I Saw Eternity

      Composer: William Bolcom

    26. Night Practice

      Composer: William Bolcom

    27. The Fish

      Composer: William Bolcom

    28. Costa del Nowhere

      Composer: William Bolcom

    29. Table

      Composer: William Bolcom

    30. Mary

      Composer: William Bolcom

    31. River Song

      Composer: William Bolcom

    32. Messing About in Boats

      Composer: William Bolcom

    33. Rat's Song

      Composer: William Bolcom

    34. Dynamite Tonite: When We Built the Church

      Composer: William Bolcom


The American composer William Bolcom (b. 1938) is best-known for his large-scale setting of William Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience," which is available on a 3-CD Naxos set. This new collection of Bolcom's songs also on Naxos shows the composers's lifelong fascination with Blake. It includes an early lyrical setting of Blake's poem, "Mary" which deals with a beautiful and intelligent young woman and her rejection by her society. In the several torch and cabaret-style works it includes, the collection also shows Bolcom's attempts to fuse classical with popular styles of music. Bolcom also has done so in his piano music, much of which is heavily influenced by ragtime. The songs on this CD are performed and selected by soprano Carole Farley with Bolcom himself at the piano.