Main specs
Title: American Songs
Composer: André (George) Previn (b 1929); Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990); Dominick Argento (b 1927); Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981)
Main Performer: André Previn (Piano); Barbara Bonney (Soprano); Sato Knudsen (Cello)
Date of Release: 02/1998
Label / Distributor: Critics' Choice / Universal Manufacturing and Logistics
Pieces in Set: 1
Running Time: 1 hour 16 minutes
Genre(s): Vocal and choral
Producer: Michael Haas
Stereo: Stereo
SPAR Code: DDD
EAN: 28945551128
Catalogue Number: 455
Work 1
Work Title: Sallie Chisum remembers Billy the Kid
Excerpt(s): 1. Sallie Chisum remembers Billy the Kid
Composer: André (George) Previn (b 1929)
Genre: Vocal & Choral
Date Recorded: 1996
Main Performer: André Previn (Piano), Barbara Bonney (Soprano)
Opera Part(s): André Previn, Barbara Bonney
Location of Work Recording: Methuen Memorial Music Hall, Boston
Work 2
Work Title: (12) Poems of Emily Dickinson
Excerpt(s): 1. Nature, the gentlest mother 2. There came a wind like a bugle 3. Why do they shut me out of heaven 4. The world feels dusty 5. Heart, we will forget him 6. Dear March, come in 7. Sleep is supposed to be 8. When they come back 9. I felt a funeral in my brain 10. I've heard an organ talk sometimes 11. Going to heaven 12. The chariot
Composer: Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)
Genre: Vocal & Choral
Date Written: 1944-50
Date Recorded: 1996
Main Performer: André Previn (Piano), Barbara Bonney (Soprano)
Opera Part(s): André Previn, Barbara Bonney
Location of Work Recording: Methuen Memorial Music Hall, Boston
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Work 3
Work Title: (6) Elizabethan Songs
Excerpt(s): 1. Spring (wds. T Nash) 2. Sleep (wds. S Daniel) 3. Winter (wds. Shakespeare) 4. Dirge (wds. Shakespeare) 5. Diaphenia (wds. H Constable) 6. Hymn (wds. B Jonson)
Composer: Dominick Argento (b 1927)
Genre: Vocal & Choral
Date Written: 1958
Date Recorded: 1996
Main Performer: André Previn (Piano), Barbara Bonney (Soprano)
Opera Part(s): André Previn, Barbara Bonney
Location of Work Recording: Methuen Memorial Music Hall, Boston
Work 4
Work Title: (10) Hermit Songs, Op. 29
Excerpt(s): 1. No. 1, At Saint Patrick's Purgatory 2. No. 2, Church Bell at Night 3. No. 3, St Ita's Vision 4. No. 4, The Heavenly Banquet 5. No. 5, The Crucifixion 6. No. 6, Sea-Snatch 7. No. 7, Promiscuity 8. No. 8, The Monk and his Cat 9. No. 9, The Praises of God 10. No. 10, The Desire for Hermitage
Composer: Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981)
Genre: Vocal & Choral
Date Written: 1952-53
Date Recorded: 1996
Main Performer: André Previn (Piano), Barbara Bonney (Soprano)
Opera Part(s): André Previn, Barbara Bonney
Location of Work Recording: Methuen Memorial Music Hall, Boston
Work 5
Work Title: Vocalise
Excerpt(s): 1. Vocalise
Composer: André (George) Previn (b 1929)
Genre: Vocal & Choral
Date Written: 1995
Date Recorded: 1996
Main Performer: André Previn (Piano), Barbara Bonney (Soprano), Sato Knudsen (Cello)
Opera Part(s): André Previn, Barbara Bonney, Sato Knudsen
Location of Work Recording: Methuen Memorial Music Hall, Boston
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