GLASS: Cello Concerto No. 2 "Naqoyqatsi"
Following her debut solo recording with PentaTone – And If the Song be worth a Smile –, Lisa Delan returns to the American composers whose songs she has interpreted so successfully: Bill Bolcom, John Corigliano, David Garner, Gordon Getty, Jake Heggie and Luna Pearl Woolf.
This unusually versatile American soprano, who has been praised for her astounding range from rich operatic tones to Broadway belting, is back with four more premiere recordings, three of which exclusively present compositions written especially for this disc. Assisted by a select cast of soloists, Delan brings to life the words of Dickinson, Yeats, Kinnell, Rumi, Sutzkever and Arnold Weinstein.
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1. Movement I – Naqoyqatsi
2. Movement II – Massman
3. Movement III – New World
4. Movement IV – Intensive Time
5. Movement V – Old World
6. Movement VI – Point Blank
7. Movement VII – The Vivid Unknown
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Release Date: March 19, 2013
Label: Orange Mountain Music #OMM0087
Artist(s): Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Matt Haimovitz, cello; Dennis Russell Davies, conductor
Composer(s): Philip Glass
Album Produced by Michael Riesman & Richard Guérin
Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Michael Riesman
Recorded at Cincinnati Music Hall on March 30 and 31, 2012
Recording Engineer: Chelsea VandeDrink, Cincinnati Public Radio
Cover Painting: The “Little” Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; photographer Studio Tromp, Rotterdam
Matt Haimovitz photo: Steph MacKinnon
Dennis Russell Davies photo: Paul Kolnik
Matt Haimovitz appears courtesy of Oxingale Records
OMM Special Projects Adviser: Garry Roemer
This recording was made possible by the generous support of Dr. Richard & Lois Jolson
Philip Glass’ Creative Directorship with the Cincinnati Symphony was made possible through the generosity of Brad & Marsha Lindner
Philip Glass’ Cello Concerto No.2 “Naqoyqatsi” was commissioned by Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra thanks to the support of Mace Justice
Philip Glass’ music is published by Dunvagen Music Publishers
Executive Producers:
Philip Glass, Kurt Munkacsi, and Don Christensen