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FULL Flashes and Illuminations (John Harbison) Highland Park IL 2023 Nathaniel Sullivan
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Flashes and Illuminations
- Composer: Harbison John
- Libretto: various
- Venue & Opera Company: Bennett Gordon Hall at Ravinia, Highland Park, Illinois
- Recorded: August 17, 2023
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Nathaniel Sullivan
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Michael Sikich, Piano
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Nathaniel Sullivan
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, gensubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Flashes and Illuminations is a song cycle for baritone and piano which sets the poetry of American poets Elizabeth Bishop, Michael Fried, and William Carlos Williams as well as Italian poet Eugene Montale and Polish poet Czesław Miłosz.
John Harbison 1938 –
The vocal works of John Harbison include operas (such as A Winter’s Tale and Full Moon in March) and song cycles. His opera The Great Gatsby was written for the Metropolitan Opera to celebrate James Levine’s 25th year with the company. Of significant importance and beauty is his cycle Mottetti di Montale of 1980, which is “an engagement with Eugenio Montale’s love poems that recalls the Müller cycles of Schubert.” (David St George, New Grove Dictionary)
John Harbison 1938 –
The vocal works of John Harbison include operas (such as A Winter’s Tale and Full Moon in March) and song cycles. His opera The Great Gatsby was written for the Metropolitan Opera to celebrate James Levine’s 25th year with the company. Of significant importance and beauty is his cycle Mottetti di Montale of 1980, which is “an engagement with Eugenio Montale’s love poems that recalls the Müller cycles of Schubert.” (David St George, New Grove Dictionary)
(00:00) Introduction
(01:41) I. On the Greve (text by Eugenio Montale, translated by John Harbison)
(03:58) II. Chemin de Fer (text by Elizabeth Bishop)
(07:22) III. The Winds of Dawn (text by Michael Fried)
(08:53) IV. Cirque d’Hiver (text by Elizabeth Bishop)
(12:55) V. To Be Recited to Flossie on Her Birthday (text by William Carlos Williams)
(15:14) VI. December 1 (text by Czesław Miłosz)
(01:41) I. On the Greve (text by Eugenio Montale, translated by John Harbison)
(03:58) II. Chemin de Fer (text by Elizabeth Bishop)
(07:22) III. The Winds of Dawn (text by Michael Fried)
(08:53) IV. Cirque d’Hiver (text by Elizabeth Bishop)
(12:55) V. To Be Recited to Flossie on Her Birthday (text by William Carlos Williams)
(15:14) VI. December 1 (text by Czesław Miłosz)
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