Michael Hersch: Last Autumn

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Innova Recordings
Release Date
April 28, 2015
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      HERSCH, MICHAEL
    • PERFORMER
      Hersch, Gaisford
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 28, 2015
    • UPC
      726708690724
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      INN907
    • LABEL
      Innova Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. The air stirs the light …

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    2. No. 2. Spreading out above them …

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    3. No. 3. … in a different consistency …

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    4. No. 4. A crow on the wing lost a white feather …

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    5. No. 5. Scherzo A

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    6. No. 6. Intermezzo A

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    7. No. 7. Lullaby I

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    8. No. 8. Scherzo B

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    9. No. 9. March

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    10. No. 10. … a dress entangled in thistles …

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    11. No. 11. Lullaby II

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    12. No. 12. Psalm A

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    13. No. 13. … with tiny lanterns they haunted the rubbish dumps …

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    14. No. 14. … shade in the heat of noon …

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    15. No. 15. In the end, awaiting recovery she is placed in a hospital where …

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    16. No. 16. Intermezzo B

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    17. No. 17. … the breaking of time from day to day …

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    18. No. 18. Intermezzo C

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    19. No. 19. Lullaby III

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    20. No. 20. Psalm B

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    21. No. 21. … a dress entangled in thistles …

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    22. No. 22. … while behind us already the green trees are leaving their leaves …

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    23. No. 23. Lullaby I

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    24. No. 24. Whoever closes the wings …

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    25. No. 25. March

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    26. No. 26. Fragment

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    27. No. 27. … azure-blue …

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    28. No. 28. Spreading out above them …

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    29. No. 29. On the Basel Crucifixion of 1505 …

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    30. No. 30. Lullaby IV

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    31. No. 31. Scherzo B

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    32. No. 32. Lullaby II

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    33. No. 33. The air stirs the light …

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    34. No. 34. Peer ahead sharply …

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    35. No. 35. Intermezzo D

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    36. No. 36. … under the rainbow arching over the land …

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    37. No. 37. A crow on the wing lost a white feather …

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    38. No. 38. … already the storm was hanging …

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    39. No. 39. … in a different consistency of the air …

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    40. No. 40. … the eclipse of the sun …

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford

    41. No. 41. It was when darkness crept in and far below me …

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Performer: Jamie Hersch, Daniel Gaisford


Completed in 2008, Michael Hersch's 2-hour work for horn and cello, Last Autumn, has been described by the Philadelphia Inquirer as a "portrait of something too huge and undefinable, glorious and terrible, to be seen in anything more than glimpses." A work "whose riches defy the harmonic limitations of the instruments. ... Together, they created wild portraits of alienated togetherness."

Performed here by hornist Jamie Hersch and cellist Daniel Gaisford, for whom the piece was written, Last Autumn is the second in a series of evening-length works written by the composer over the past decade.