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BARBER: Choral Music |
Setting texts for chorus or solo songs occupied Samuel Barber throughout his creative life. In particular he sought out English and Irish writers, many of whose melancholic and nostalgic texts aptly matched his own musically romantic persuasion. A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map is a disturbing setting of a poem by Stephen Spender describing the death of a soldier in the Spanish Civil War, during which the poet had spent time in Spain. The elegiac and now extraordinarily popular Adagio for Strings is heard in the composer’s own choral version, Agnus Dei, to words from the Latin Mass. God’s Grandeur is one of Barber’s most ambitious and advanced unaccompanied settings.
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Barber, Samuel
Spender, Stephen, lyricist(s)
A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map, Op. 15
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A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map, Op. 15
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Barber, Samuel
Menotti, Gian Carlo, lyricist(s)
Under the Willow Tree
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Under the Willow Tree
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Barber, Samuel
2 Pieces, Op. 42
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No. 1. Twelfth Night
00:04:32
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No. 2. To be sung on the Water
00:02:48
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The Monk and his Cat
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The Monk and his Cat
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Barber, Samuel
Mass Text, lyricist(s)
Agnus Dei, Op. 11
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Agnus Dei, Op. 11
00:05:55
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Barber, Samuel
Stephens, James, lyricist(s)
Reincarnations, Op. 16
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I. Mary Hynes
00:02:44
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II. Anthony O'Daly
00:03:49
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III. The Coolin
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Barber, Samuel
2 Pieces, Op. 8
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No. 1. The Virgin Martyrs
00:03:39
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No. 2. Let down the bars, O Death
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4 Songs, Op. 13 (excerpts)
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No. 1. Heaven - haven
00:01:43
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No. 3. Sure on this shining night
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Barber, Samuel
Browning, Pack, lyricist(s)
Chorale for Ascension Day (Easter Chorale)
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Chorale for Ascension Day (Easter Chorale)
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Barber, Samuel
Zeffirelli, Franco, lyricist(s)
Antony and Cleopatra, Op. 40, Act III (excerpts)
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On the death of Anthony
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On the death of Cleopatra
00:02:51
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Barber, Samuel
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, lyricist(s)
God’s Grandeur
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God’s Grandeur
00:07:44
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Total Playing Time: 01:00:08 |
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Composer(s):
Barber, Samuel
Lyricist(s):
Browning, Pack; Hopkins, Gerard Manley; Mass Text; Menotti, Gian Carlo; Spender, Stephen; Stephens, James; Zeffirelli, Franco
Conductor(s):
Lawrence, Douglas
Choir(s):
Ormond College Choir
Artist(s):
Dickson, Ben; Kayser, Deborah; McDonald, Grantley; Vorster, Len
Label: Naxos Series: American Classics Genre: Choral - Sacred; Choral - Secular; Opera Period: 20th Century
Catalogue No: 8.559053
Barcode: 636943905326
Physical Release: 08/2006
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