Daugherty: This Land Sings (Inspired by the Life and Times of Woody Guthrie)

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
May 8, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DAUGHERTY, MICHAEL
    • PERFORMER
      Socolofsky, Daugherty, Dogs Of Desire, Miller
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 08, 2020
    • UPC
      636943988923
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8559889
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Overture

      Composer: Michael Daugherty

      Ensemble: Dogs of Desire

      Conductor: David Alan Miller

    2. No. 2. The Ghost and Will of Joe Hill

      Composer: Michael Daugherty

      Ensemble: Dogs of Desire

      Performer: Annika Socolofsky, John Daugherty

      Conductor: David Alan Miller

    3. No. 3. Perpetual Motion Man

      Composer: Michael Daugherty

      Ensemble: Dogs of Desire

      Performer: Annika Socolofsky, John Daugherty

      Conductor: David Alan Miller

    4. No. 4. Marfa Lights

      Composer: Michael Daugherty

      Ensemble: Dogs of Desire

      Conductor: David Alan Miller

    5. No. 5. Hear the Dust Blow

      Composer: Michael Daugherty

      Ensemble: Dogs of Desire

      Performer: Annika Socolofsky

      Conductor: David Alan Miller

    6. No. 6. Graceland

      Composer: Michael Daugherty

      Ensemble: Dogs of Desire

      Performer: John Daugherty

      Conductor: David Alan Miller

    7. No. 7. Forbidden Fruit

      Composer: Michael Daugherty

      Ensemble: Dogs of Desire

      Performer: Annika Socolofsky, John Daugherty

      Conductor: David Alan Miller

    8. No. 8. Hot Air

      Composer: Michael Daugherty

      Ensemble: Dogs of Desire

      Performer: John Daugherty

      Conductor: David Alan Miller

    9. No. 9. Bread and Roses

      Composer: Michael Daugherty

      Ensemble: Dogs of Desire

      Performer: Annika Socolofsky

      Conductor: David Alan Miller

    10. No. 10. This Land Sings

      Composer: Michael Daugherty

      Ensemble: Dogs of Desire

      Conductor: David Alan Miller

    11. No. 11. Silver Bullet

      Composer: Michael Daugherty

      Ensemble: Dogs of Desire

      Performer: John Daugherty

      Conductor: David Alan Miller

    12. No. 12. This Trombone Kills Fascists

      Composer: Michael Daugherty

      Ensemble: Dogs of Desire

      Conductor: David Alan Miller

    13. No. 13. Don't Sing Me a Love Song

      Composer: Michael Daugherty

      Ensemble: Dogs of Desire

      Performer: Annika Socolofsky, John Daugherty

      Conductor: David Alan Miller

    14. No. 14. My Heart is Burning

      Composer: Michael Daugherty

      Ensemble: Dogs of Desire

      Conductor: David Alan Miller

    15. No. 15. I'm Gonna Walk That Lonesome Valley

      Composer: Michael Daugherty

      Ensemble: Dogs of Desire

      Performer: John Daugherty

      Conductor: David Alan Miller

    16. No. 16. Mermaid Avenue

      Composer: Michael Daugherty

      Ensemble: Dogs of Desire

      Conductor: David Alan Miller

    17. No. 17. Wayfaring Stranger / 900 Miles

      Composer: Michael Daugherty

      Ensemble: Dogs of Desire

      Performer: Annika Socolofsky, John Daugherty

      Conductor: David Alan Miller


In ‘This Land Sings,’ Grammy Award-winning composer Michael Daugherty has created an original musical tribute to the singer-songwriter and political activist Woody Guthrie (1912-1967). Traveling the backroads of America from coast to coast with a guitar and harmonica, Woody Guthrie performed folk songs of love, wandering and social justice during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Daugherty has composed his own original songs and instrumental interludes that give haunting expression, ironic wit and contemporary relevance to political, social and environmental themes from Guthrie’s era. Under the baton of Grammy Award-winning conductor David Alan Miller, the Albany Symphony’s new music ensemble Dogs of Desire, joined by soprano Annika Socolofsky and baritone John Daugherty, give a poignant and rousing performance.

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REVIEWS:

For the most part, Daugherty doesn’t set Guthrie’s tunes at all, although This Land Is Your Land turns up in a couple of numbers. Instead, he writes words of his own and draws on texts from elsewhere in the progressive strain of thought, dating back to Mark Twain, that animated Guthrie’s production. It all adds up to something quite unlike anything anybody else has done before. Listeners are going to have their own reactions, but this is original stuff, ideally and flexibly performed.

– AllMusic Guide (James Manheim)

Michael Daugherty traveled around the dust bowl of the United States before commencing the work, savoring the backdrop to Guthrie’s life as a writer and performer. It has resulted in an overture and sixteen vocal and instrumental tracks, the words for the songs written mostly by Daugherty. They are funny; they question life and our existence; suffering and love, all expressed in a mix of classical, folk, and jazzy rhythms. It is certainly a different experience that takes the composer down a new road, particularly so in the early part of the score. The excellent punchy sound is ideal for the work. Do listen to it.

– David''s Review Corner (David Denton)