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Historically oriented ensembles have long had an affinity for contemporary music, rooted in an anti-Romantic aesthetic common to the two musical scenes. Many groups have premiered new works of a more or less modernist bent, but the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra takes a new approach in this pair of works from composer Caroline Shaw: the group asked for music that specifically used the resources offered by historical instruments, genres, and performance techniques. The result is a highly accessible pair of works that don't sound quite like anything else out there. Is a Rose is a cycle of three songs written for mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, sounding fabulous as she enters senior citizenhood. With "rose" texts by Gertrude Stein, Robert Burns, and contemporary poet Jacob Polley, the three works were premiered at different times but cohere as a set, making one hear Baroque features such as a harpsichord in new ways. The half-hour The Listeners draws on the Baroque oratorio genre but is entirely original in conception, inspired by that of the so-called "Golden Record" carried into space by the U.S. Voyager probe in 1977. Shaw draws on texts from Tennyson and Walt Whitman to contemporary poet Yesenia Montilla, together with vintage messages from Carl Sagan and United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. Broadly appealing and rooted in the past, yet entirely novel, these works show why Shaw is becoming one of the most popular new composers.
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Is a Rose (Caroline Shaw)
Anne Sofie von Otter, Mezzo-Soprano - Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - Nicholas McGegan, Conductor - Caroline Shaw, Composer - Jacob Polley, Lyricist
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Anne Sofie von Otter, Mezzo-Soprano - Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - Nicholas McGegan, Conductor - Caroline Shaw, Composer - Caroline Shaw, Lyricist
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Anne Sofie von Otter, Mezzo-Soprano - Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - Nicholas McGegan, Conductor - Caroline Shaw, Composer - Robert Burns, Lyricist
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The Listeners (Caroline Shaw)
Avery Amereau, Contralto - Philharmonia Chorale - Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - Nicholas McGegan, Conductor - Caroline Shaw, Composer
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Dashon Burton, Bass-Baritone - Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - Nicholas McGegan, Conductor - Caroline Shaw, Composer - Walt Whitman, Lyricist
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Philharmonia Chorale - Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - Nicholas McGegan, Conductor - Caroline Shaw, Composer
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Avery Amereau, Contralto - Philharmonia Chorale - Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - Nicholas McGegan, Conductor - Caroline Shaw, Composer - William Drummond of Hawthornden, Lyricist
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Dashon Burton, Bass-Baritone - Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - Nicholas McGegan, Conductor - Caroline Shaw, Composer - Lord Tennyson Alfred, Lyricist
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Carl Sagan, Narrator, Lyricist
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Avery Amereau, Contralto - Dashon Burton, Bass-Baritone - Philharmonia Chorale - Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - Nicholas McGegan, Conductor - Caroline Shaw, Composer - Yesenia Montilla, Lyricist
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Philharmonia Chorale - Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - Nicholas McGegan, Conductor - Caroline Shaw, Composer - Lucille Clifton, Lyricist
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Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - Nicholas McGegan, Conductor - Caroline Shaw, Composer
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Avery Amereau, Contralto - Philharmonia Chorale - Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - Nicholas McGegan, Conductor - Caroline Shaw, Composer
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Album review
Historically oriented ensembles have long had an affinity for contemporary music, rooted in an anti-Romantic aesthetic common to the two musical scenes. Many groups have premiered new works of a more or less modernist bent, but the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra takes a new approach in this pair of works from composer Caroline Shaw: the group asked for music that specifically used the resources offered by historical instruments, genres, and performance techniques. The result is a highly accessible pair of works that don't sound quite like anything else out there. Is a Rose is a cycle of three songs written for mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, sounding fabulous as she enters senior citizenhood. With "rose" texts by Gertrude Stein, Robert Burns, and contemporary poet Jacob Polley, the three works were premiered at different times but cohere as a set, making one hear Baroque features such as a harpsichord in new ways. The half-hour The Listeners draws on the Baroque oratorio genre but is entirely original in conception, inspired by that of the so-called "Golden Record" carried into space by the U.S. Voyager probe in 1977. Shaw draws on texts from Tennyson and Walt Whitman to contemporary poet Yesenia Montilla, together with vintage messages from Carl Sagan and United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. Broadly appealing and rooted in the past, yet entirely novel, these works show why Shaw is becoming one of the most popular new composers.
© TiVo
Details of original recording : Recorded at First Congregational Church, Berkeley, CA March 9–10 & October 19–20, 2019
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 00:51:25
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
- Composer: Caroline Shaw
- Label: Philharmonia Baroque Productions
- Area: Etats-Unis d'Amérique
- Genre: Classical
- Period: Contemporary music
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