Heggie: The Radio Hour

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Label
Delos
Release Date
October 9, 2015
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      HEGGIE, JAKE
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Pacific Symphony
    • PERFORMER
      John Alexander Singers, Graham, Clemensen
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 09, 2015
    • UPC
      013491348421
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      DE 3484
    • LABEL
      Delos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Vocal
    Works ⌄

    1. Part I: A Really Bad Day

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Ensemble: John Alexander Singers, Pacific Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: David Clemensen

      Conductor: John Alexander

    2. Part II: Through the Door

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Ensemble: John Alexander Singers, Pacific Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: David Clemensen

      Conductor: John Alexander

    3. Part III: A New Day

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Ensemble: John Alexander Singers, Pacific Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: David Clemensen

      Conductor: John Alexander

    4. Patterns

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Ensemble: John Alexander Singers

      Performer: Susan Graham, David Clemensen

      Conductor: John Alexander

    5. I Shall Not Live in Vain

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Ensemble: John Alexander Singers, Handbell Choir

      Performer: Susan Graham, David Clemensen

      Conductor: John Alexander

    6. He Will Gather Us Around

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Ensemble: Pacific Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Susan Graham

      Conductor: John Alexander

    7. He Will Gather Us Around (Version for Chorus)

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Ensemble: John Alexander Singers, Pacific Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: John Alexander


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”)