Two machine protraits / [words by] Les Murray (3:44) -- The long boat / Stanley Kunitz (2:34) -- Twang / Wallace Stevens (3:16) -- Lightenings VIII / Seamus Heaney (2:21) -- Visible / Paul Auster (2:50) -- September 11, 2001 / W.H. Auden (10:34) -- Fenton songs / James Fenton (9:46) -- Christes Crosse / Thomas Morley (4:09) -- Pentecost / Derek Walcott (3:35) -- A song to the lute in musicke / ascribed to Richard Edwards (3:28) -- Stanzas before time / John Ashbery (3:56) -- A winter's tale / Dylan Thomas (25:23).
Note
The 1st and 6th works for tenor and piano; the 2nd work for mezzo-soprano and English horn; the 3rd-4th, 8th, and 13th works for soprano and piano; the 5th work for mezzo-soprano and violin; the 7th work for soprano, 2 guitars, violin, and violoncello; the 9th and 11th works for tenor and harp; the 12th work for soprano, clarinet, horn, violin, viola, violoncello, and piano.
Texts by various authors.
The 3rd-4th, 7th, and 12th works previously released.
Includes texts and program notes on insert.
Event (note)
Recorded in New York City at the American Academy of Arts and Letters on Nov. 16-17, 1993 (3rd, 12th works), June 17, 1996 (4th work), Nov. 18, 2000 (10th work), June 7, 2003 (8th work), Nov. 14, 2005 (2nd, 5th-6th works), and Oct. 30, 2006 (1st, 9th, 11th works), and in Purchase, N.Y. at the Performing Arts Center, SUNY Purchase on Sept. 23, 1999 (7th work).
Language (note)
English words.
Source of description (note)
Description based on hard copy version record.
Author
Wuorinen, Charles.
Title
Vocal works [electronic resource] / Charles Wuorinen.
Ryan MacPherson, William Ferguson, tenor ; Mary Nessinger, mezzo-soprano ; Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Elizabeth Farnum, soprano ; Jacqueline Leclair, English horn ; Mark Steinberg, violin ; June Han, harp ; Phillip Bush, James Winn, Alan Feinberg, piano ; Cygnus Ensemble (Oren Fader, William Anderson, guitar ; Jacqui Carrasco, violin ; John Whitfield, violoncello) ; Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (David Shifrin, clarinet ; Robert Routch, horn ; Carmit Zori, violin ; Steven Tenenbom, viola ; Fred Sherry, violoncello ; James Winn, piano) ; Charles Wuorinen, conductor.
Event
Recorded in New York City at the American Academy of Arts and Letters on Nov. 16-17, 1993 (3rd, 12th works), June 17, 1996 (4th work), Nov. 18, 2000 (10th work), June 7, 2003 (8th work), Nov. 14, 2005 (2nd, 5th-6th works), and Oct. 30, 2006 (1st, 9th, 11th works), and in Purchase, N.Y. at the Performing Arts Center, SUNY Purchase on Sept. 23, 1999 (7th work).