Shinning Brow
By JoAnn Falletta
Release 31/03/2009
Media Format CD
Product Notes
Daron Hagen and Paul Muldoon' first, and highly successful, opera is based on the life of the great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin, the home he built for himself in Wisconsin.
Details
Orchestras: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Performers: Brenda Harris , Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus , Deborah Fleischer , Elaine Valby , Elem Eley , Eric Fleischer , Gilda M. Lyons , James Demler , Jennifer Lynn Reckamp , Matthew Curran , Rob Frankenberry , Robert Orth , Tony Barton
Title: Shinning Brow
Release Date: 31/03/2009
Label: Naxos American
Number of Discs: 2
Media Format: CD
UPC: 730099902076
Item #: NAX990207
- Disc 1 -
1 Act 1. Prologue. So Much So, That Even Now I Flinch
2 Act 1. Prologue. Chorus. So the Poetry of Architecture
3 Act 1. Scene 1. Some Are Destined to Stand
4 Act 1. Scene 1. Chorus. the Music, So... the Music of Architecture
5 Act 1. Scene 1. Arietta. And Her Scent, Was It Musk?
6 Act 1. Scene 1. Aria. If Not for Me, Then for the Children's Sake
7 Act 1. Scene 1. Aria. Each Room Opens Into the Next, Catherine
8 Act 1. Scene 1. Interlude. "Sullivan Variations"
9 Act 1. Scene 1. Chorus. When I Woke Up This Morning
10 Act 1. Scene 2. Far Be It from Me to Suggest
11 Act 1. Scene 2. Arietta. Three Long Days and Three Long Nights
12 Act 1. Scene 2. Aria. the Truth Is That My Mouth Is Full of Nails
13 Act 1. Scene 2. Chorus. They Say the Soul Weighs About the Same As
14 Act 1. Scene 2. Sung Melodrama. Be It Mud Hut, Mansion or Mosque
15 Act 1. Scene 2. Trio. for Three Long Months I've Tried to Ease
16 Act 1. Scene 2. Interlude. "Hymn to Nature". She Sweeps Us Off Our Feet
17 Act 1. Scene 3... Back Into Earth and Air
18 Act 1. Scene 3. Scena. Frank, How Much Longer Must I Endure...?
- Disc 2 -
1 Act 2. Prelude
2 Act 2. Chorus. So Much, So Much, So Much, So Much, So
3 Act 2. Sextet No. 1. with a Tally Ho and View Halloo.
4 Act 2. Aria. Ladies and Gentlemen
5 Act 2. Questions. Mister Wright!
6 Act 2. Dialogue Over Chorus. Together, Mamah, We Will Take
7 Act 2. Sextet No. 2. Just My Luck to End Up Here
8 Act 2. Interlude (Barbershop Quartet). for When All's Said and Done, We'd Like to Know
9 Act 2. Canapã© Variations. As the Guests Arrive at Taliesin
10 Act 2. Oration. I Am the Birch Stripped of It's Bark
11 Act 2. Interlude. "The Fire"
12 Act 2. Scene. Frank. Lieber Meister
13 Act 2. Duet. for Ten Long Years I've Tried to Heal
14 Act 2. News. Eddie? Why So Crestfallen? So Forlorn?
15 Act 2. Arietta. I Cry Out from the Slough of Despond
16 Act 2. Chorus. Out of the Depths We Heard Them Cry Again
17 Act 2. Scene. for Ten Long Hours They Were Trapped
18 Act 2. Chorus. Out of the Depths We Heard Them Cry Again
19 Act 2. Arietta. Not Musk, Cedar Perhaps
20 Act 2. Aria. He's Found! We've Found the Chef!
21 Act 2. Continuation of Scene. Not Maple. Pine: The Scent of a Plain Pine Box
22 Act 2. Aria. I Think of the Balsam Fir
23 Act 2. Dialogue Over Chorus. Together, Mamah, We Will Take
24 Act 2. Sextet No. 2. Just My Luck to End Up Here
25 Act 2. Interlude (Barbershop Quartet). for When All's Said and Done, We'd Like to Know
26 Act 2. Canapã© Variations. As the Guests Arrive at Taliesin
27 Act 2. Oration. I Am the Birch Stripped of It's Bark
28 Act 2. Scene. Frank. Lieber Meister
29 Act 2. Duet. for Ten Long Years I've Tried to Heal
30 Act 2. News. Eddie? Why So Crestfallen? So Forlorn?
31 Act 2. Arietta. I Cry Out from the Slough of Despond
32 Act 2. Chorus. Out of the Depths We Heard Them Cry Again
33 Act 2. Scene. for Ten Long Hours They Were Trapped
34 Act 2. Chorus. Out of the Depths We Heard Them Cry Again
35 Act 2. Arietta. Not Musk, Cedar Perhaps
36 Act 2. Aria. He's Found! We've Found the Chef!
37 Act 2. Aria. I Think of the Balsam Fir
Daron Hagen and Paul Muldoon' first, and highly successful, opera is based on the life of the great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin, the home he built for himself in Wisconsin.