Vocal CollectionNew York's Metropolitan Opera ushers in the new millennium with the world premiere of John Harbison's splendid opera The Great Gatsby , with a libretto based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's
VocalJohn Harbison blends his musical voice with the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop to form a work which gives the impression of a poet/composer collaboration rather than just a setting of text to music.
The expressive, personal music of John Harbison has been highly acclaimed and his style is a fitting match for the rich resonance of the unaccompanie cello. This 4-movement suite was written in 1994 a
Inspired by the use of the bass viol in Bach cantatas as well as jazz groups. Includes two piano reductions: Concert Pitch and Solo Tuning in D. Co-commissioned by 15 orchestras and the International
Piano13 piano works inspired by anagrams based on the name of Leonard Stein. Stein was an American pianist, conductor, musicologist, professor, and champion of Schoenberg and the Second Viennese Schoo
StringCast in two scenes, both movements of Abu Ghraib begin in unrest then transition into quieter places which leave the first music behind. Harbison incorporates an Iraqi lullaby and popular Amer
(Vocal Solo). Cycle of 6 songs. Simple Daylight was commissioned by Lincoln Center and dedicated to its first singer, Dawn Upshaw. The music is set to poems in Michael Fried's To the Center of the Ear
Mirabai's ecstatic religious poetry was written in 16th century India. When she was 27, her husband was killed in a war. Mirabai refused to die on her husband's funeral pyre, as was the custom. Instea
Originally for soprano and orchestra, these 7 songs on the poetry of Nobel Prize-winning poet Czeslaw Milosz were premiered by Dawn Upshaw and the New York Philharmonic in 2006.
Winterreise is perhaps the greatest song cycle ever written. Franz Schubert set to music the evocative poetry of his contemporary, German lyricist Wilhelm Muller. It is a heart-rending portrayal of
