Angel Heart, a music storybook

Haunting, heady, and evocative, Angel Heart is a music storybook with original music by award-winning composer Luna Pearl Woolf and original text by bestselling children’s fantasy writer Cornelia Funke. Synthesizing the work of pioneering A-list artists from multiple disciplines, Angel Heart represents an innovative, music-centered approach to children’s storytelling. Academy Award-winner Jeremy Irons narrates, with musical performances from cellist Matt Haimovitz, his all-cello ensemble Uccello, and vocalists Frederica von Stade, Lisa Delan, Zheng Cao, Daniel Taylor, and Sanford Sylvan. Enhanced by visual storytelling and design by the award-winning creative studio Mirada, Angel Heart’s deluxe CD package is due for release by Oxingale Records on September 24, with an interactive iPad app created by Mirada soon to follow. The musicians will reunite for two live multimedia performances of Angel Heart at family concerts at Cal Performances at UC Berkeley (Oct 6) and at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York (Oct 21).

    1. There! Do you hear it? (1:14)

    2. All Through the Night (Traditional) (5:04)

    3. But look! Who is that one? (1:10)

    4. Mother Nature's Son (Lennon-Mccartney) (2:29)

    5. Ah, how Rahmiel loves the world of men and beasts! (1:53)

    6. O Waly Waly (traditional) (3:20)

    7. So much sadness! (2:32)

    8. Je porte ma lanterne jolie (Traditional) (2:24)

    9. Rahmiel fills the night with laughter... (1:43)

    10. Danny Boy (Traditional) (4:33)

    11. Oh, this is too much pain. (1:39)

    12. The Adventurer (Getty) (2:44)

    13. Luna doesn’t look very strong... (2:17)

    14. 14 Angels (Humperdinck) (3:08)

    15. The witch that can heal broken hearts... (2:24)

    16. O Absalom (Traditional) (3:40)

    17. “Mistress!” the raven man says... (3:18)

    18. Unter Beymer (Olshanetsky) (2:59)

    19. The East is dressed in leaves... (1:16)

    20. Russian Lullaby (3:25)

    21. Oh the North. (1:07)

    22. Ho Ho Watanay (Traditional) (2:49)

    23. The West is even bigger than the raven man. (1:50)

    24. Sleep Baby Sleep (Traditional) (4:07)

    25. When the South sings her lullaby... (1:28)

    26. Tiefer und Tiefer (Getty) (2:30)

  • Release Date: December 7, 2018

    Label: PENTATONE Oxingale Series (PTC: 5186731)

    Artist:
    Lisa Delan, Frederica von Stade, Matt Haimovitz, Jeremy Irons, Zheng Cao, Caterina Lichtenberg, Mike Marshall, Michael Morgan, Daniel Taylor, Sanford Sylvan

    Composers: Story by Cornelia Funke. Music by Luna Pearl Woolf, with new and traditiona songs composed and arranged by Gordon Getty, Jake Heggie, Engelbert Humperdink, Lennon-McCartney, David Sanford, Lewis Spratlan and Luna Pearl Woolf.

    PRODUCTION TEAM
    Recorded July 27 – August 1, 2011 at Skywalker Sound, a Lucasfilm, Ltd., company, Marin County, CA.
    Producer David Frost
    Recording engineer Jean-Marie Geijsen
    Assistant engineer Dann Thompson

    September 17, 2011 at Opus Studios, Berkeley, CA
    Recording engineer David Luke

    October 26 – 27, 2011 at Piccolo Studios, Montreal, Quebec
    Recording engineer Richard King
    Assistant engineer Manuel Marie

    August 29, 2012 at Sync Sound, New York, NY, & Mayflower Studios in London, England
    Recording engineers John Bowen & Jonathan Rimas

    Editing David Frost
    Mixing & mastering Richard King

    Visual storytelling Mirada
    Graphic design Joost de Boo
    Product management Kasper van Kooten

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