Jane Eyre [2 CDs]

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
August 9, 2019
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      KARCHIN, LOUIS
    • PERFORMER
      Various
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 09, 2019
    • UPC
      730099904278
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8669042-43
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Act I Scene 1: Bedroom of Edward Rochester, Thornfield (Eyre, Rochester)

      Composer: Louis Karchin

      Ensemble: Orchestra of the League of Composers

      Performer: Jennifer Zetlan, Ryan MacPherson

      Conductor: Louis Karchin

    2. Act I Scene 2: Drawing room at Thornfield (Roderick Ingram, Mrs. Ingram, Rochester, Blanche Ingram, Eyre, Fairfax)

      Composer: Louis Karchin

      Ensemble: Orchestra of the League of Composers

      Performer: Thomas Meglioranza, Jessica Thompson, Ryan MacPherson, Katrina Thurman, Jennifer Zetlan, Kimberly Giordano

      Conductor: Louis Karchin

    3. Act I Scene 3: Study of Edward Rochester, Thornfield (Rochester, Mason, Eyre, Fairfax, Bessie)

      Composer: Louis Karchin

      Ensemble: Orchestra of the League of Composers

      Performer: Ryan MacPherson, Adam Cannedy, Jennifer Zetlan, Kimberly Giordano, Jessica Ann Best

      Conductor: Louis Karchin

    4. Act II Scene 1: Drawing Room at Thornfield (Fairfax, Eyre, Rochester)

      Composer: Louis Karchin

      Ensemble: Orchestra of the League of Composers

      Performer: Kimberly Giordano, Jennifer Zetlan, Ryan MacPherson

      Conductor: Louis Karchin

    5. Act II Scene 2: The orchard outside Thornfield (Eyre, Rochester)

      Composer: Louis Karchin

      Ensemble: Orchestra of the League of Composers

      Performer: Jennifer Zetlan, Ryan MacPherson

      Conductor: Louis Karchin

    6. Act II Scene 3: The chapel at Thornfield (Wood, Rochester, Briggs, Eyre)

      Composer: Louis Karchin

      Ensemble: Orchestra of the League of Composers

      Performer: David Salsbery Fry, Ryan MacPherson, Adam Cannedy, Jennifer Zetlan

      Conductor: Louis Karchin

    7. Act III Scene 1: A one-room schoolhouse in a rural landscape (Diana Rivers, Mary Rivers, St. John Rivers, Eyre, Children)

      Composer: Louis Karchin

      Ensemble: Orchestra of the League of Composers

      Performer: Jessica Thompson, Jessica Ann Best, Thomas Meglioranza, Jennifer Zetlan

      Conductor: Louis Karchin

    8. Act III Scene 2: A sitting room of Moor House, home of the Rivers family (St. John Rivers, Eyre)

      Composer: Louis Karchin

      Ensemble: Orchestra of the League of Composers

      Performer: Thomas Meglioranza, Jennifer Zetlan

      Conductor: Louis Karchin

    9. Act III Scene 3: The parlor at Ferndean, hunting lodge of Edward Rochester (Fairfax, Eyre, Rochester)

      Composer: Louis Karchin

      Ensemble: Orchestra of the League of Composers

      Performer: Kimberly Giordano, Jennifer Zetlan, Ryan MacPherson

      Conductor: Louis Karchin


Over four decades the American composer Louis Karchin has produced a much-admired portfolio of compositions. His one-act opera Romulus won numerous accolades. Jane Eyre is his largest project to date, in which he and librettist Diane Osen fashion Charlotte Bronte's beloved novel into a vivid and moving opera cast as a fluid and continuous entity. Karchin's wide-ranging harmonic language and his flair for contrast ensure that the novel's drama, it's pastoral elements, and most importantly it's characterization are fully developed via arias, monologues, ariosi and a quartet, to create a boldly engaging new work.