Utwory na płycie:

• Hermit Songs, Op. 29 - I. At Saint Patrick’s Purgatory
• Hermit Songs, Op. 29 - II. Church Bell at Nigh
• Hermit Songs, Op. 29 - III. St. Ita’s Vision
• Hermit Songs, Op. 29 - IV. The Heavenly Banquet
• Hermit Songs, Op. 29 - V. The Crucifixion
• Hermit Songs, Op. 29 - VI. Sea-Snatch
• Hermit Songs, Op. 29 - VII. Promiscuity
• Hermit Songs, Op. 29 - VIII. The Monk and His Cat
• Hermit Songs, Op. 29 - IX. The Praises of God
• Hermit Songs, Op. 29 - X. The Desire for Hermitage
• These Strangers - I. These Strangers
• These Strangers - II. In the Midst of Thousands
• These Strangers - III. I Did Not Speak Out
• These Strangers - IV. To a Stranger
• How Well I Knew The Light - I. Ample make this Bed
• How Well I Knew The Light - II. The Sun kept setting
• The Mystery - I. He has kissed me
• The Mystery - II. Gentleness
• The Mystery - III. To my husband
• The Mystery - IV. At dawn
• The Mystery - V. Rocking
• Four Early Songs - I. Night
• Four Early Songs - II. A Summer Vacation
• Four Early Songs - III. My Heart is in the East
• Four Early Songs - IV. Alone
• Kathy's Aria (from Goodbye Mr. Chips) - Chips, darling, it’s started
• Welsh Songs - I. Welcome Robin
• Welsh Songs - II. Kind Old Man
• Welsh Songs - III. All Through the Night
• Deep River
• Danny Boy

Samuel Barber:
Hermit Songs, Op. 29

Jake Heggie:
These Strangers
How Well I Knew the Light (on poetry by Emily Dickinson)

Carlisle Floyd:
The Mystery - Five Songs of Motherhood (Poems by Gabriela Mistral, translated by Anita K. Fleet)

Aaron Copland:
Four Early Songs (published posthumously in 1998)

Gordon Getty:
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Three Welsh Songs (Traditional Welsh folk songs, adapted and arranged by Gordon Getty)
Deep River (African-American Spiritual, arranged by Gordon Getty)
Danny Boy (Tune:
Londonderry Air, arranged by Gordon Getty Poem by Frederic E. Weatherly)

DIVERSE, BUT UNMISTAKABLY AMERICAN

An American Song Album is a fine collection of songs by American composers, presented by soprano Melody Moore. The repertoire includes Samuel Barber’s introspective Hermit Songs, Jake Heggie’s engaged cycles These Strangers and How Well I Knew the Light, Carlisle Floyd’s exploration of motherhood in The Mystery, Copland’s impressionist and oriental Four Early Songs, as well as a varied selection from Gordon Getty’s vocal works. Set to Irish, Welsh, Chilean, German, Arabic and Afro-American poetry, these pieces constitute a panorama of the US as a melting pot of cultures, while simultaneously being bound together by an unmistakably American sound. Melody Moore manages to lift out the poetry of these works with her warm, lyrical voice and impeccable vocal technique. She is accompanied on the piano by Bradley Moore, one of the most eminent conductors and song accompanists of today’s American musical scene.

With her first solo album, Melody Moore continues her PENTATONE discography that already features recordings of leading roles in Gordon Getty’s Plump Jack (2012) and The Little Match Girl (2015), as well as Desdemona in Verdi’s Otello (2017).

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This album was recorded at Mechanics Hall, Worcester, MA, USA in September 2018.