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Macmillan: Clemency [Opera] Angus, Boston Lyric Opera
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Macmillan: Clemency [Opera] Angus, Boston Lyric Opera

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Composer
MACMILLAN SCHUBERT
Artist
Boston Lyric Opera, Angus, Kravitz, Trainor, Abraham
Format
CD
Label
BIS
Released
Oct 14, 2014
Catalog #
BIS-2129
UPC
7318590021293

About

Clemency, a chamber opera for five singers and string orchestra in one act; composed 2009-10 and the third operatic collaboration between composer James MacMillan and poet Michael Symmons Roberts to date – is a work exploring a central but enigmatic Old Testament episode. The composer has commented that Clemency is set in the present day and ‘is not intended as an old Hollywood style Biblical drama. Abraham and Sarah are modern people who are visited by three strange but modern figures that, it turns out, have something terroristic about them. There is something of the ancient and the modern in the piece; the ancient, Biblical tale but also the kinds of thing people face today in many parts of the world.’ For the first U.S. production and its world premiere recording, Boston Lyric Opera, with the approval of both composer and librettist, decided to introduce the figure of Hagar, servant to Sarah but also the mother of Abraham’s first child, Ishmael. This is done by incorporating a version of Schubert’s early song Hagar’s Lament as a prelude to this opera, challenging us to measure the impact of our lives in a modern world that continues to be marked politically and spiritually by acts of mercy and acts of vengeance.

Tracklist 11 tracks

  1. 1 Introduction: Abraham's Chant (Abraham) 01:19
    Track
    1
    Title
    Introduction: Abraham's Chant (Abraham)
    Duration
    01:19
    Composer
    James MacMillan
    Performer
    David Kravitz
    Ensemble
    Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Angus
  2. 2 Hagars Klage (Hagar's Lament), D. 5 (arr. D. Angus for voices, piano and orchestra) (sung in English) 14:37
    Track
    2
    Title
    Hagars Klage (Hagar's Lament), D. 5 (arr. D. Angus for voices, piano and orchestra) (sung in English)
    Duration
    14:37
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Michelle Trainor, David McFerrin, Brett Hodgdon
    Ensemble
    Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Angus
  3. 3 Scene 1: Abraham's Chant: O Lord, who set the planets turn (Abraham) 04:29
    Track
    3
    Title
    Scene 1: Abraham's Chant: O Lord, who set the planets turn (Abraham)
    Duration
    04:29
    Composer
    James MacMillan
    Performer
    David Kravitz
    Ensemble
    Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Angus
  4. 4 Scene 1: Duet: What is the measure of our years? (Abraham, Sarah) 01:55
    Track
    4
    Title
    Scene 1: Duet: What is the measure of our years? (Abraham, Sarah)
    Duration
    01:55
    Composer
    James MacMillan
    Performer
    David Kravitz, Christine Abraham
    Ensemble
    Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Angus
  5. 5 Scene 2: No-one can walk far in this heat (Abraham, Travellers, Sarah) 07:23
    Track
    5
    Title
    Scene 2: No-one can walk far in this heat (Abraham, Travellers, Sarah)
    Duration
    07:23
    Composer
    James MacMillan
    Performer
    David Kravitz, David McFerrin, Neal Ferreira, Samuel Levine, Christine Abraham
    Ensemble
    Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Angus
  6. 6 Scene 2: Gold has lost its light (Travellers) 05:06
    Track
    6
    Title
    Scene 2: Gold has lost its light (Travellers)
    Duration
    05:06
    Composer
    James MacMillan
    Performer
    David McFerrin, Neal Ferreira, Samuel Levine
    Ensemble
    Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Angus
  7. 7 Scene 2: Chant of the Travellers (Travellers) - Who are these angels? (Abraham, Sarah) 06:12
    Track
    7
    Title
    Scene 2: Chant of the Travellers (Travellers) - Who are these angels? (Abraham, Sarah)
    Duration
    06:12
    Composer
    James MacMillan
    Performer
    David McFerrin, Neal Ferreira, Samuel Levine, David Kravitz, Christine Abraham
    Ensemble
    Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Angus
  8. 8 Scene 2: Three strangers bring a gift to me (Sarah) 06:07
    Track
    8
    Title
    Scene 2: Three strangers bring a gift to me (Sarah)
    Duration
    06:07
    Composer
    James MacMillan
    Performer
    Christine Abraham
    Ensemble
    Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Angus
  9. 9 Scene 3: Who are you? (Abraham, Travellers, Hagar, Sarah) 04:01
    Track
    9
    Title
    Scene 3: Who are you? (Abraham, Travellers, Hagar, Sarah)
    Duration
    04:01
    Composer
    James MacMillan
    Performer
    David Kravitz, David McFerrin, Neal Ferreira, Samuel Levine, Michelle Trainor, Christine Abraham
    Ensemble
    Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Angus
  10. 10 Scene 4: And the good? (Sarah, Travellers, Abraham) 04:38
    Track
    10
    Title
    Scene 4: And the good? (Sarah, Travellers, Abraham)
    Duration
    04:38
    Composer
    James MacMillan
    Performer
    Christine Abraham, David McFerrin, Neal Ferreira, Samuel Levine, David Kravitz
    Ensemble
    Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Angus
  11. 11 Scene 5: Sarah's Lament: Months from now (Sarah) 02:23
    Track
    11
    Title
    Scene 5: Sarah's Lament: Months from now (Sarah)
    Duration
    02:23
    Composer
    James MacMillan
    Performer
    Christine Abraham
    Ensemble
    Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra
    Conductor
    David Angus