Trois chansons de Bilitis / Claude Debussy -- Three songs of innocence lost. Voyelles = Vowels / Eleonor Sandresky ; La soga = The rope / Jorge Martin ; The nymphs are departed / Sebastian Currier -- Sieben frühe Lieder / Alban Berg -- Seven new songs. On learning on the clearest night only 6000 stars are visible to the naked eye / David Del Tredici ; The rape of Ophelia / Daniel Rothman ; Distant heart / Anna Weesner ; Everyfrigginthing / Joe Kerr ; Soneto de amor LXXXI / Lee Hyla ; A white rose / Tom Cipullo ; She goes her spacious way / Eric Moe.
Note
Song cycles by Berg and Debussy for medium voice and piano, with 10 new songs, each commissioned to correspond to one of the Berg or Debussy songs.
Texts by Pierre Louÿs, Arthur Rimbaud, Jorge Martín, T.S. Eliot, Carl Hauptmann, Nikolaus Lenau, Theodor Storm, Rainer Maria Rilke, Johannes Schlaf, Otto Erich Hartleben, Paul Hohenberg, Antler, Richard Brautigan, Jennifer Clarvoe, Joe Kerr, Pablo Neruda, John Boyle O'Reilly, and Emily Dickinson.
Event (note)
Recorded Jan. 10-12, 2007, at Skinner Hall, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Language (note)
Sung in French (1st-2nd works), Spanish (3rd and 10th works), English (4th, 6th-9th, and 11th-12th works), and German (5th work).
Source of description (note)
Description based on hard copy version record.
Author
Nessinger, Mary. Performer
Title
Innocence lost [electronic resource] : the Berg-Debussy project.
Imprint
Albany, NY : Albany Records, [2008]
Playing time
010615
Performer
Mary Nessinger, mezzo-soprano ; Jeanne Golan, piano.
Event
Recorded Jan. 10-12, 2007, at Skinner Hall, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Language
Sung in French (1st-2nd works), Spanish (3rd and 10th works), English (4th, 6th-9th, and 11th-12th works), and German (5th work).