William Bolcom - Songs of Innocence and of Experience (William Blake) / Slatkin, University of Michigan School of Music

William Bolcom - Songs of Innocence and of Experience (William Blake) / Slatkin, University of Michigan School of Music

William Bolcom - Songs of Innocence and of Experience (William Blake) / Slatkin, University of Michigan School of Music
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Performer: William Bolcom
Performer: Christine Brewer
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-10-19
Music Label: Naxos American
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Introduction - Thomas Young
  2. The Ecchoing Green - Combined Choruses
  3. The Lamb - Measha Brueggergosman
  4. The Shepherd - Peter 'Madcat' Ruth
  5. Infant Joy - Marietta Simpson
  6. The Little Black Boy - Nathan Lee Graham
  7. Laughing Song - U-M Chamber Choir
  8. Spring - Thomas Young
  9. A Cradle Song - Linda Hohenfeld
  10. Nurse's Song - Joan Morris
  11. Holy Thursday - Combined Choruses
  12. The Blossom - Measha Brueggergosman
  13. Interlude - Orchestra
  14. The Chimney Sweeper - Nathan Lee Graham
  15. The Divine Image - Joan Morris
  16. Nocturne - Orchestra
  17. Night - Thomas Young
  18. A Dream - Ilana Davidson
  19. On Another's Sorrow - Combined Choruses
  20. The Little Boy Lost - Carmen Pelton
  21. The Little Boy Found - Nathan Lee Graham
  22. Coda - Orchestra
Music CD 2
  1. Introduction - Orchestra
  2. Hear The Voice Of The Bard - Nmon Ford
  3. Interlude - Orchestra
  4. Earth's Answer - Christine Brewer
  5. Nurse's Song - Joan Morris
  6. The Fly - MSU Children's Choir
  7. The Tyger - Combined Choruses
  8. The Little Girl Lost - Nmon Ford
  9. In The Southern Clime - U-M Chamber Choir
  10. The Little Girl Found - Combined Choruses
  11. The Clod And The Pebble - Thomas Young
  12. The Little Vagabond - Joan Morris
  13. Holy Thursday - Carmen Pelton
  14. A Poisin Tree - Nathan Lee Graham
  15. The Angel - Ilana Davidson
  16. The Sick Rose - Marietta Simpson
  17. To Tirzah - Combined Choruses
Music CD 3
  1. The Voice Of The Ancient Bard - Nmon Ford
  2. My Pretty Rose Tree - Chorus Men
  3. Ah! Sun-Flower - U-M Chamber Choir
  4. The Lilly - Thomas Young
  5. Introduction To Part V - Orchestra
  6. The Garden Of Love - Thomas Young
  7. A Little Boy Lost - Carmen Pelton
  8. A Little Girl Lost - Christine Brewer
  9. Infant Sorrow - U-M Chamber Choir Soloists
  10. Vocalise - Combined Choruses
  11. London - Nathan Lee Graham
  12. The School Boy - Linda Hohenfeld
  13. The Chimney Sweeper - U-M Chamber Choir
  14. The Human Abstract - Nmon Ford
  15. Interlude: Voces Clamandae - Orchestra
  16. A Divine Image - Soloists

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Free Music Review: disappointing recording
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This is an amazing piece of work. I attended its performance in Ann Arbor, when this recording was made. Unfortunately, the thrill of the performance, with its cast of thousands, does not quite come through in the recorded version. Nonetheless, its a remarkable piece of work.
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Bolcom's dream of setting Blake's poems to music began when he fell under their spell as a teenager; he worked on the composition of Songs of Innocence and of Experience on and off for 25 years, completing it in 1982. This live recording celebrates the 20th anniversary of the work's American premiere. Following an early edition of the poems that assigns them a different order from the customary one, he created nine movements to form "a series of arches." Blake's own principle of "contraries" and his use of many poetic traditions is a perfect counterfoil for Bolcom's eclecticism, which encompasses styles ranging from solemn chorales, lush romanticism, abrasive, dissonant modernism, to jazz, folk, country, and rock. His interpretation of the poems, which he calls "A Musical Illumination," is sometimes startling, but always interesting, highly personal, and unquestionably sincere. Some of the settings enhance and heighten the poems, entering deeply into their spirit and mood. Others seem at variance with them: "The Lilly," a peaceful, serene poem, set to crashing, aggressive music, is an extreme example, and some stratospheric, jagged soprano lines seem to add nothing to the text. For some of the most arresting, convincing settings, Bolcom uses his well-known and beloved cabaret style, sung to perfection by his wife and partner, mezzo-soprano Joan Morris. Indeed, the entire performance is beyond praise. The work calls for a whole army of participants: several choruses, including a children's choir, a dozen vocal soloists, a speaker, a harmonica player, a fiddler, and a huge symphony orchestra augmented by electronic instruments and extra brass and percussion. The last produce a large number of terrifying explosions, both between and within the songs, as well as fascinating sound effects, like imitations of running water, delicate tinkles, and ominous roars and rumbles. The singers are superb; the women contribute incredible coloratura leaps, melting lyricism, caressing warmth, while the men include a heroic tenor, a commanding baritone, and sometimes sung, sometimes spoken scatting. Leonard Slatkin holds his enormous forces together with total control and authority. --Edith Eisler
William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience date from the turbulent period in English and American history when the United States was in its infancy. Occupying 25 years of William Bolcom's compositional life, his "musical illuminations," inspired by Blake's own wide panoply of poetic styles in the cycle, travel thrillingly from intense dissonance to folk, rock, and reggae to encompass the breadth of the Blakean spiritual universe.

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