Heggie: The Radio Hour
Details
- Composer
- HEGGIE, JAKE
- Artist
- John Alexander Singers, Graham, Clemensen
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Delos
- Released
- Oct 09, 2015
- Catalog #
- DE 3484
- UPC
- 013491348421
About
Initially regarded as a master composer of art songs, Jake Heggie has since become known as perhaps America’s leading contemporary composer of internationally acclaimed operas. Winning examples of both genres appear on this release: the world premiere recording of a short, one-act opera, The Radio Hour – as well as four shorter vocal pieces. The Radio Hour – the world’s first-ever “choral opera” – is a compact work for silent actress, with running narrative and commentary from a choir. The program is rounded out with four mostly art song-based works in varied arrangements, several with choral elements, sung by the vaunted John Alexander Singers. Susan Graham, one of America’s most beloved mezzo-sopranos, is heard in three of the shorter pieces; Pacific Symphony members provide the instrumentals. “A masterpiece of clarity and intensity, with a score that is at once thematically compact and richly inventive.” San Francisco Chronicle (review of Jake Heggie’s opera “Moby Dick”)
Tracklist 7 tracks
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1 Part I: A Really Bad Day 15:38
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Part I: A Really Bad Day
- Duration
- 15:38
- Composer
- Jake Heggie
- Performer
- David Clemensen
- Ensemble
- John Alexander Singers, Pacific Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- John Alexander
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2 Part II: Through the Door 19:14
- Track
- 2
- Title
- Part II: Through the Door
- Duration
- 19:14
- Composer
- Jake Heggie
- Performer
- David Clemensen
- Ensemble
- John Alexander Singers, Pacific Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- John Alexander
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3 Part III: A New Day 03:48
- Track
- 3
- Title
- Part III: A New Day
- Duration
- 03:48
- Composer
- Jake Heggie
- Performer
- David Clemensen
- Ensemble
- John Alexander Singers, Pacific Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- John Alexander
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4 Patterns 14:25
- Track
- 4
- Title
- Patterns
- Duration
- 14:25
- Composer
- Jake Heggie
- Performer
- Susan Graham, David Clemensen
- Ensemble
- John Alexander Singers
- Conductor
- John Alexander
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5 I Shall Not Live in Vain 04:20
- Track
- 5
- Title
- I Shall Not Live in Vain
- Duration
- 04:20
- Composer
- Jake Heggie
- Performer
- Susan Graham, David Clemensen
- Ensemble
- John Alexander Singers, Handbell Choir
- Conductor
- John Alexander
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6 He Will Gather Us Around 00:50
- Track
- 6
- Title
- He Will Gather Us Around
- Duration
- 00:50
- Composer
- Jake Heggie
- Performer
- Susan Graham
- Ensemble
- Pacific Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- John Alexander
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7 He Will Gather Us Around (Version for Chorus) 06:19
- Track
- 7
- Title
- He Will Gather Us Around (Version for Chorus)
- Duration
- 06:19
- Composer
- Jake Heggie
- Ensemble
- John Alexander Singers, Pacific Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- John Alexander