Compact disc. For unaccompanied mixed chorus in various combinations. Texts with English translations of German and Italian texts and program notes (23 p.) inserted in container. The New York Virtuoso Singers ; Harold Rosenbaum, conductor. Recorded at LRP Digital Record Production, New York, in June 1991.
Contents:
Orpheus behind the wire / Hans Werner Henze ; [words by Edward Bond] (22:25) -- By fire / David Lang ; [words by Sun Tzu and an anonymous CIA agent] (3:55) -- Sonnets to Orpheus : from Songs of praise and lamentation / George Perle ; [words by Rainer Maria Rilke] (13:33) -- Carols of death / William Schuman ; [words by Walt Whitman] (10:13) -- Art and Isadora / Michael Dellaira ; [words by John Dos Passos] (5:02) -- Prima serie dei cori di Michelangelo Buonarroti il giovane. Il coro delle malmaritate (5:08) ; Il coro dei malmmogliati (5:07) / Luigi Dallapiccola.
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