Composer(s): Herrmann, Bernard
Conductor(s): Gil-Ordóñez, Angel
Label: Naxos
Series: American Classics
Genre: Chamber Music; Orchestral
Period: 20th Century; Contemporary
Catalogue No: 8.559883
Barcode: 636943988329
Release Date: 10/2020

HERRMANN, B.: Whitman - Radio Play by Norman Corwin (reconstructed by C. Husted, 2019) (Sharp, Horwitz, Nicely, PostClassical Ensemble, Gil-Ordóñez)

Bernard Herrmann was famous for his film scores, but he was also a leading figure in music for radio, to which he brought his inimitable palette of mood and sonority. Whitman, whose subject is Walt Whitman’s collection of poems Leaves of Grass, was a 1944 radio drama, a genre now much neglected but revived in this newly restored version. Psycho: A Narrative for String Orchestra is not a suite or excerpts from the film but a concert work, re-ordered and re-composed, while Souvenirs de voyage is one of the most polished and seductive of all American chamber works.

Tracklist

Herrmann, Bernard
Whitman, Walt - Lyricist
Corwin, Norman - Lyricist
Husted, Christopher - Arranger
Sharp, William (narrator)
PostClassical Ensemble (Ensemble)
Gil-Ordóñez, Angel (Conductor)
Horwitz, Murray (narrator)
Nicely, Annasophia (narrator)
1 Introduction: I, Walt Whitman, heard that you asked for something to prove this puzzle the New World (Whitman) 00:45
Sharp, William (narrator)
PostClassical Ensemble (Ensemble)
Gil-Ordóñez, Angel (Conductor)
2 Welcome: You! Whoever you are! (Whitman) 01:27
Sharp, William (narrator)
PostClassical Ensemble (Ensemble)
Gil-Ordóñez, Angel (Conductor)
3 Perpetual Journey: I tramp a perpetual journey (Whitman) 04:10
Sharp, William (narrator)
PostClassical Ensemble (Ensemble)
Gil-Ordóñez, Angel (Conductor)
4 Listen: Listen: when the psalm sings instead of the singer (Whitman, Stranger, Cynic) 02:07
Sharp, William (narrator)
Horwitz, Murray (narrator)
PostClassical Ensemble (Ensemble)
Gil-Ordóñez, Angel (Conductor)
5 Cosmos: A cosmos, of Manhattan, the son! (Whitman, Stranger) 01:15
Sharp, William (narrator)
Horwitz, Murray (narrator)
PostClassical Ensemble (Ensemble)
Gil-Ordóñez, Angel (Conductor)
6 Song: A simple separate person (Whitman, Cynic) 02:19
Sharp, William (narrator)
Horwitz, Murray (narrator)
PostClassical Ensemble (Ensemble)
Gil-Ordóñez, Angel (Conductor)
7 Oath: I celebrate myself, and sing myself (Whitman, Child) 03:05
Sharp, William (narrator)
Nicely, Annasophia (narrator)
PostClassical Ensemble (Ensemble)
Gil-Ordóñez, Angel (Conductor)
8 Miracles: I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars (Whitman, Child) 02:05
Sharp, William (narrator)
Nicely, Annasophia (narrator)
PostClassical Ensemble (Ensemble)
Gil-Ordóñez, Angel (Conductor)
9 Battle: Of life immense in passion, pulse and power, I sing (Whitman) 01:22
Sharp, William (narrator)
PostClassical Ensemble (Ensemble)
Gil-Ordóñez, Angel (Conductor)
10 War: I will acknowledge contemporary lands (Whitman, Radio Voice) 06:08
Sharp, William (narrator)
Horwitz, Murray (narrator)
PostClassical Ensemble (Ensemble)
Gil-Ordóñez, Angel (Conductor)
11 Ships: Flaunt out, O sea, your separate flags of nations! (Whitman) 02:08
Sharp, William (narrator)
PostClassical Ensemble (Ensemble)
Gil-Ordóñez, Angel (Conductor)
12 Divinity: Listener out there! (Whitman) 01:40
Sharp, William (narrator)
PostClassical Ensemble (Ensemble)
Gil-Ordóñez, Angel (Conductor)
13 Finale: I see not America only (Whitman) 02:26
Sharp, William (narrator)
PostClassical Ensemble (Ensemble)
Gil-Ordóñez, Angel (Conductor)
Herrmann, Bernard
Jones, David (clarinet)
Draiblate, Netanel (violin)
Cappelletti-Chao, Eva (violin)
Chao, Philippe (viola)
Capps, Benjamin (cello)
14 I. Lento: Molto tranquillo 09:57
Jones, David (clarinet)
Draiblate, Netanel (violin)
Cappelletti-Chao, Eva (violin)
Chao, Philippe (viola)
Capps, Benjamin (cello)
15 II. Berceuse: Andante 06:56
Jones, David (clarinet)
Draiblate, Netanel (violin)
Cappelletti-Chao, Eva (violin)
Chao, Philippe (viola)
Capps, Benjamin (cello)
16 III. Andantino: Canto amoroso 07:33
Jones, David (clarinet)
Draiblate, Netanel (violin)
Cappelletti-Chao, Eva (violin)
Chao, Philippe (viola)
Capps, Benjamin (cello)
Herrmann, Bernard
Mauceri, John - Arranger
PostClassical Ensemble (Ensemble)
Gil-Ordóñez, Angel (Conductor)
17 Psycho: A Narrative for String Orchestra (reconstructed by J. Mauceri for string orchestra) 15:49
PostClassical Ensemble (Ensemble)
Gil-Ordóñez, Angel (Conductor)

Total Playing Time: 01:11:12