Riley / Beaser / Tower / Hawley / Mcfadden - Cantos Desiertos - COMPACT DISCS [CD]
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- Genre: Classical
- Description: According to the composer, \Mountain Songs is a cycle of eight songs based largely on American folk music. Of the four tunes presented on this recording, as reflected by their titles, three are lyric ballads from the southern mountains of Appalachia while Cindy is a minstrel fiddle song.Inch Mountain Songs was commissioned by Paula Robison and Eliot Fisk. It was composed between July and November 1984 in New York and Rome and was given it's world premiere in April 1985 by the Robison/Fisk duo at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The composer provides the following detailed notes of the four songs recorded here InchIn Barbara Allen pride keeps the heroine from saving her lover from his tragic end. InchSweet William, Inch dying for love of Barbara, expires as she spurns him on his deathbed. The House Carpenter explores the guilt-ridden fantasies of escaping from one's lot. A woman's former lover appears after a prolonged absence; he tempts her to leave the house carpenter she has since married and come away with him to a place Inchwhere the grass grows green/To the lands on the banks of the seaInch. Unable to resist his call, she agrees, and they sail off together. But soon she begins to weep for her abandoned child; and finally, in penance and guilt, she and her lover spring a leak in their ship and sink to the cold sea floor. He's Gone Away mixes elements of sorrow with hope InchHe's gone away for to stay a little while/ But he's coming back if he goes ten thousand miles.../Look away, look away over Yandro!Inch Here the stanzasare separated by an upbeat, dance-like interlude. The frolic tune Cindy bubbles with minstrel-song spirit.Inch Album Tracks 1. Barbara Allen 2. The House Carpenter 3. He's Gone Away 4. Cindy 5. Snow Dreams 6. Cancion Desierto 7. Quijote 8. Llanto 9. Tango Ladeado 10. Francesco en Paraiso 11. Nocturne 1
- Artist: RILEY / BEASER / TOWER / HAWLEY / MCFADDEN
- Title: Cantos Desiertos
- Format: CD
- Label: Naxos American
- Release Date: 06/17/2003
- Genre: Classical
- Number Of Discs: 1
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- Product Name: Riley / Beaser / Tower / Hawley / Mcfadden - Cantos Desiertos - COMPACT DISCS
- UPC: 636943914625
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According to the composer, \Mountain Songs is a cycle of eight songs based largely on American folk music. Of the four tunes presented on this recording, as reflected by their titles, three are lyric ballads from the southern mountains of Appalachia while Cindy is a minstrel fiddle song.Inch Mountain Songs was commissioned by Paula Robison and Eliot Fisk. It was composed between July and November 1984 in New York and Rome and was given it's world premiere in April 1985 by the Robison/Fisk duo at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The composer provides the following detailed notes of the four songs recorded here InchIn Barbara Allen pride keeps the heroine from saving her lover from his tragic end. InchSweet William, Inch dying for love of Barbara, expires as she spurns him on his deathbed. The House Carpenter explores the guilt-ridden fantasies of escaping from one's lot. A woman's former lover appears after a prolonged absence; he tempts her to leave the house carpenter she has since married and come away with him to a place Inchwhere the grass grows green/To the lands on the banks of the seaInch. Unable to resist his call, she agrees, and they sail off together. But soon she begins to weep for her abandoned child; and finally, in penance and guilt, she and her lover spring a leak in their ship and sink to the cold sea floor. He's Gone Away mixes elements of sorrow with hope InchHe's gone away for to stay a little while/ But he's coming back if he goes ten thousand miles.../Look away, look away over Yandro!Inch Here the stanzasare separated by an upbeat, dance-like interlude. The frolic tune Cindy bubbles with minstrel-song spirit.Inch Album Tracks 1. Barbara Allen 2. The House Carpenter 3. He's Gone Away 4. Cindy 5. Snow Dreams 6. Cancion Desierto 7. Quijote 8. Llanto 9. Tango Ladeado 10. Francesco en Paraiso 11. Nocturne 1
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