Argento, Dominick

Lux Aurumque
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    		Lux Aurumque

    Manufacturer: Gothic Records
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    ASIN: B000NVIXNW
    Release Date: 2007-05-08

    Tracks:

    1. Of Thy Mystical Supper, Op.58, No.7
    2. A Prayer Of The Middle Ages
    3. O Sacrum Convivium
    4. Take Him, Earth, For Cherishing
    5. Salvation Is Created, Op.25, No.5
    6. Hymn To the Creator Of Light
    7. O Magnum Mysterium
    8. Lux Aurumque
    9. Ave Maria
    10. Complete This Work
    11. We Hymn Thee
    12. To God 'In Memorian M.B.'
    13. Our Father

    Album Description

    "The Dale Warland Singers' intonation and clarity of choral texture do nothing less than amaze." -- American Choral Catalog

    "Outstanding ensemble singing, highlighted by lovely legatos and unisons and by consistently sensitive sectional and group balances." -- ClassicsToday

    "The seamless blend and rich sound of what is probably America's best chorus is on display." -- Seattle Weekly

    The sequel to their beloved Cathedral Classics CD. Includes Morten Lauridsen's enormously popular O Magnum Mysterium. The program is a collection of cathedral masterpieces from various countries--Germany, England, Russia, Latvia, Russia, and the US. The final Dale Warland Singers CD recording before their disbandment in 2004. Within its first month, the Dale Warland Singers' previous release on Gothic (Harvest Home) became the label's best-selling CD ever, and hit Billboard's Top 20 Classical Chart. Based in Minneapolis/St. Paul, the group was recognized as one of the world's foremost a cappella choral ensembles. This forty-voice professional choir recently celebrated its thirty-first, and final, season of concerts, tours, radio broadcasts, and critically acclaimed recordings following the retirement of founder and director Dale Warland.
    30th Anniversary Sampler
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      		30th Anniversary Sampler

      Manufacturer: Reference Recordings
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      ASIN: B000ILYYSU
      Release Date: 2006-10-10

      Album Description

      A collection of highlights from recent critically acclaimed Reference Recordings releases, celebrating this esteemed independent label's thirtieth anniversary! All dazzling HDCD recordings by "Prof." Keith O. Johnson, featuring the first release on Reference of Rumanian Rhapsody No. 1 by Enescu, with Eiji Oue conducting the Minnesota Orchestra. Great value on a maximum length CD.
      Shakespeare in Song [Hybrid SACD]
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        		Shakespeare in Song [Hybrid SACD]
        Matthew Harris , Nils Lindberg , Jaakko Mantyjarvi , Frank Martin , Alan Murray , Ralph Vaughan Williams , Charles Bruffy , Carol Platt , Cassandra Ewer , Laura Inman , and Robert Comeaux
        Manufacturer: Chandos
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        5. There Is Sweet Music: English Choral Songs, 1890 - 1950

        ASIN: B0002NRRCO
        Release Date: 2004-09-21

        Tracks:

        1. Hark! Hark! The Lark Adagio
        2. Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred. Allegretto
        3. I Shall No More To Sea. Largo
        4. When That I Was And A Little Tiny Boy. Moderato
        5. It Was A Lover And His Lass Gently
        6. O Mistress Mine! Adagietto
        7. When Daffodils Begin To Peer. Lilting, With A Beat
        8. I. Come Unto These Yellow Sands (Ariel's Song). Molto Tranquillo
        9. II. Full Fathom Five. Tres Calme
        10. III. Before You Can Say, 'Come', And 'Go'. Allegro Molto
        11. IV. You Are Three Men Of Sin. Allegro - Adagio - Allegro
        12. V. Where The Bee Sucks, There Suck I. Allegretto Grazioso
        13. Slowly, With Expression - Meno Mosso - Poco Meno Mosso
        14. 1. Come Away, Come Away, Death. Andante Moderato
        15. 2. Lullaby. Andante Con Moto
        16. Double, Double Toil And Trouble...
        17. Full Fathom Five. Grave
        18. Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?
        19. Molto Lento Ed Elegiaco
        20. O Mistress Mine! Tranquillo
        21. 1. Full Fathom Five. Andante Misterioso
        22. 2. The Cloud-Capp'd Towers. Lento
        23. 3. Over Hill, Over Dale. Allegro Vivace
        Appear & Inspire
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          		Appear & Inspire

          Manufacturer: Telarc
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

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          5. Choral Masterpieces

          ASIN: B000003D1B
          Release Date: 1996-02-27

          Tracks:

          1. I. In A Garden Shady
          2. II. I Cannot Grow;
          3. III. O Ear Whose Creatures Cannot Wish To Fall
          4. I. Dieu! Qu'il La Fait Bon Regarder!
          5. II. Quant J'ai Ouy Le Tabourin
          6. III. Yver, Vous N'estes Qu'un Villain
          7. I. Nicolette
          8. II. Trois Beaux Oiseaux Du Paradis
          9. III. Ronde
          10. I. De Grandes Cuillers De Neige
          11. II. La Bonne Neige
          12. III. Bois Meurtri
          13. IV. La Nuit, Le Froid, La Solitude
          14. I. La Nuit En Mer
          15. II. La Complainte Des Ames
          16. III. Soir D'ete
          17. I. I Hate And I Love
          18. II. Let Us Live, My Clodia, And Let Us Love
          19. III. Greetings, Miss, With Nose Not Small
          20. IV. My Woman Says She Will Be No One's
          21. V. Was It A Lioness From The Mountains Of Libya
          22. VI. You Promise Me, My Dearest Life
          23. VII. Wretched Catullus, Put An End To This Madness
          24. VIII. I Hate And I Love
          To Be Sung upon the Water: Song Cycles by Dominick Argento
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            		To Be Sung upon the Water: Song Cycles by Dominick Argento
            Dominick Argento , Ralph Vaughan Williams , Patrice Michaels , Larry Combs , and Elliott Golub
            Manufacturer: Cedille
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            ASIN: B0000018ZJ
            Release Date: 1996-10-30

            Tracks:

            1. Frédéric Chopin (3:55)
            2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (3:07)
            3. Franz Schubert (4:51)
            4. Johann Sebastian Bach (3:39)
            5. Claude Debussy (3:28)
            6. Giacomo Puccini (2:29)
            7. Robert Schumann (4:36)Songs About Spring (10:45) - DOMINICK ARGENTO
            8. I. who knows if the moon's a balloon (2:11)
            9. II. Spring is like a perhaps hand (2:50)
            10. III. in Just-spring (1:31)
            11. IV. in Spring comes (1:34)
            12. V. when faces called flowers (2:26)To Be Sung Upon the Water (27:22) - DOMINICK ARGENTO
            13. I. Prologue: Shadow and Substance (3:33)
            14. II. The Lake at Evening (3:08)
            15. III. Music on the Water (3:15)
            16. IV. Fair is the Swan (1:38)
            17. V. In Remembrance of Schubert (3:43)
            18. VI. Hymn Near the Rapids (2:43)
            19. VII. The Lake at Night (3:59)
            20. VIII. Epilogue: De profundis (5:00)Three Vocalises for Soprano and Clarinet (4:02) - RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
            21. I. Prelude (1:52)
            22. II. Scherzo (0:40)
            23. III. Quasi menuetto (1:25)selections from Along the Field (10:36) - RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
            24. II. Along the Field (2:49)
            25. VI. Good-Bye (2:24)
            26. VII. Fancy's Knell (3:41)
            27. VIII. With Rue My Heart is Laden (1:33)TOTAL TIME (79:34)

            Album Description

            The disc includes the world premiere recording of Argento's Songs about Spring for voice and piano, based on poems by e.e. cummings. "This first recording . . . should serve as a model for all future performances," the composer says. Argento composed this song cycle (his first) while still an undergraduate at Baltimore's Peabody Institute of Music. Here, too, is the only available CD recording of Letters from Composers for voice and guitar. Based on letters and fragments of letters written by Chopin, Mozart, Schubert, Bach, Debussy, Puccini, and Schumann, they illustrate a wide range of personal problems having almost no relevance to their compositional careers. The musical settings show Argento's understanding of each composer's expressive style. To Be Sung Upon the Water (Wordsworth settings scored for high voice, clarinet, and piano) is available in only one other version -- a reissue from the 1970s. The cycle is noteworthy for the subtle and sensitive use of clarinet and bass clarinet (performed here by Chicago Symphony Orchestra principal clarinetist Larry Combs). The clarinet reappears in Vaughan Williams' Three Vocalises for Soprano and Clarinet, one of the composer's last works. Vaughan Williams' love of early English folk music is evident in the song selections from Along the Field, his settings of A.E. Housman poems for the unusual combination of voice and violin. These are the only available CD versions of these songs and vocalises. Miss Michaels studied composition with Argento at the University of Minnesota. They share a fondness for intimate vocal forms and a distinct literary sensibility. "Argento's works impress on the listeners a strong musical personality, a result of his being drawn perpetually to the human voice" (New Grove Dictionary of American Music). For her part, Miss Michaels told Fanfare magazine (September / October 1996) in an interview: "I've always been attracted to the literary impulse behind the music." Besides producing musical sounds, she wants to tell stories.
            Dominick Argento: From the Diary of Virginia Woolf; The Andrée Expedition
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              		Dominick Argento: From the Diary of Virginia Woolf; The Andrée Expedition

              Manufacturer: Centaur
              ProductGroup: Music
              Binding: Audio CD

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              ASIN: B0000057U6
              Release Date: 1993-09-01

              Tracks:

              1. From The Diary Of Virginia Woolf: The Diary
              2. From The Diary Of Virginia Woolf: Anxiety
              3. From The Diary Of Virginia Woolf: Fancy
              4. From The Diary Of Virginia Woolf: Hardy's Funeral
              5. From The Diary Of Virginia Woolf: Rome
              6. From The Diary Of Virginia Woolf: War
              7. From The Diary Of Virginia Woolf: Parents
              8. From The Diary Of Virginia Woolf: Last Entry
              9. The Andre Expedition: Prologue
              10. The Andre Expedition: The Balloon Rises
              11. The Andre Expedition: Pride And Ambition
              12. The Andre Expedition: Dinner Aloft
              13. The Andre Expedition: The Unforseen Problem
              14. The Andre Expedition: The Flight Aborted
              15. The Andre Expedition: Mishap With A Sledge
              16. The Andre Expedition: The King's Jubilee
              17. The Andre Expedition: Illness And Drugs
              18. The Andre Expedition: Hallucinations
              19. The Andre Expedition: Anna's Birthday
              20. The Andre Expedition: Epilogue
              21. The Andre Expedition: Final Words
              Dominick Argento: From the Diary of Virginia Woolf
              Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
              • A Valiant Try
              • Miraculous
              		 Dominick Argento: From the Diary of Virginia Woolf

              Manufacturer: D'note Classics
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              ASIN: B000003YNN
              Release Date: 1997-04-22

              Tracks:

              1. From The Diary Of Virgina Woolf: The Diary
              2. From The Diary Of Virgina Woolf: Anxiety
              3. From The Diary Of Virgina Woolf: Fancy
              4. From The Diary Of Virgina Woolf: Hardy's Funeral
              5. From The Diary Of Virgina Woolf: Rome
              6. From The Diary Of Virgina Woolf: War
              7. From The Diary Of Virgina Woolf: Parents
              8. From The Diary Of Virgina Woolf: Last Entry
              9. From Spanisches Liederbuch: Nun wander Maria
              10. From Spanisches Liederbuch: Die ihr Schwebet
              11. From Spanisches Liederbuch: Ach des Knaben Augen
              12. From Spanisches Liederbuch: Herr, was tragt der Boden hier
              13. Apres un reve, Opus 7, No.1
              14. Le secret, Opus 23 No. 3
              15. Le Manoit de Rosemonde
              16. Phidyle
              17. Mandoline
              18. Air de Lia

              Customer Reviews:

              3 out of 5 stars A Valiant Try.......2000-05-10

              Dame Janet is clearly the greatest postwar mezzo-soprano the British isles have ever produced. She had just about everything one could wish for in a singer: taste, sensitivity, passion, nuance, acting ability, superb vocal control, flexibility, an instantly recognizable timbre, and a dedication to championing lesser known works. She is the very definition of the serious-minded, committed artist who luckily also had great natural ability. She performs at her usual unassailable standards on this recording but somehow things don't add up to much. Perhaps the choice of material was to blame. The Argento songs are of that modern, atonal variety that, with the exception of a few original bars, sound pretty much like every other modern, atonal piece you've ever heard. And their straightforward passions don't evoke the cerebral, luminous Virginia Woolf at all (although, the liner notes indicate that the composer sought to exempt himself from criticism by claiming that he intended not to evoke Woolf specifically but suffering womankind in general). The Wolf Spanish lieder are instantly forgettable (he's one composer, along with Brahms, whose perhaps too subtle charms I have long been deaf to). Things perk up with the concluding French airs, but the Argento songs must have left an unpleasant residue because Baker is here uncharacteristically heavy and emphatic where she should be light and elliptical. By comparison, Regine Crespin's recording of Apres un Reve is appropriately dreamily sensuous whereas Baker's here is a tad emotionally overwrought and puritannical, as if the song were about Dido or Mary Stuart's dream. There's a currently unavailable recording of Baker singing Ravel, Chausson, and Delage that is one of the best things she's ever done, full of light arabesques and the right amount of French ivresse. Until that recording becomes available, I would not suggest this as a viable alternative.

              5 out of 5 stars Miraculous.......2000-03-30

              Obviously the art songs are all at the superior level you expect from Dame Janet, but you will be blown away by the Argento. A stunning miracle of breath, technique, dramatic expressiveness, and emotional force. And it was recorded live- few other singers would dare these feats of phrasing in a studio, let alone in front of an audience. Don't worry that it's a live recording- the audience is utterly under Dame Janet's spell; it may sound cliched, but time absolutely stops while she is singing.

              A humbling experience for anyone who deludes him/herself that he/she is a singer-- but this is a MUST MUST MUST have!
              Durufle: Messe Cum Jubilo Op11; Argento: Te Deum
              Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
              • Salamunovich puts the frosting on the cake!
              		 Durufle: Messe Cum Jubilo Op11; Argento: Te Deum

              Manufacturer: Rubeda Canis Musica
              ProductGroup: Music
              Binding: Audio CD

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              GeneralGeneral | Duruflé, Maurice | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
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              1. Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna, etc. / Salamunovich, Los Angeles Master Chorale

              ASIN: B00005B1FW
              Release Date: 2001-05-01

              Tracks:

              1. Te Deum (Verba Domini Cum Verbis Populi: Te Deum Laudamus-Light! Thou Faderes Brightnesse - Los Angeles Master Chor
              2. Te Deum (Verba Domini Cum Verbis Populi: Te Gloriosus Apostolorum-And By A Chapel As I Com - Los Angeles Master Chor
              3. Te Deum (Verba Domini Cum Verbis Populi: Patrem Immensae Majestatis-When Nothing Was But God Alone - Los Angeles Master Chor
              4. Te Deum (Verba Domini Cum Verbis Populi: Tu Rex Gloriae, Christe-Ther Is No Rose Of Swich Vertu - Los Angeles Master Chor
              5. Te Deum (Verba Domini Cum Verbis Populi: Tu Ad Dexteram Dei Sedes-Farewell This World - Los Angeles Master Chor
              6. Te Deum (Verba Domini Cum Verbis Populi: Salvum Fac Populum Tuum-All Other Love Is Like The Moone - Los Angeles Master Chor
              7. Messe 'Cum Jubilo', Op.11: Kyrie - Rodney Gilfry/Frederick Swann/Los Angeles Master Chorale Men's Chor
              8. Messe 'Cum Jubilo', Op.11: Gloria - Rodney Gilfry/Frederick Swann/Los Angeles Master Chorale Men's Chor
              9. Messe 'Cum Jubilo', Op.11: Sanctus - Rodney Gilfry/Frederick Swann/Los Angeles Master Chorale Men's Chor
              10. Messe 'Cum Jubilo', Op.11: Benedictus - Rodney Gilfry/Frederick Swann/Los Angeles Master Chorale Men's Chor
              11. Messe 'Cum Jubilo', Op.11: Agnus Dei - Rodney Gilfry/Frederick Swann/Los Angeles Master Chorale Men's Chor

              Customer Reviews:

              5 out of 5 stars Salamunovich puts the frosting on the cake!.......2001-09-20

              It doesn't get much better than this!
              Paul Salamunovich and the Los Angeles Master Chorale
              provide a fitting conclusion to a collaboration which represnts some of the finest choral singing of our day.
              Paul's thorough understanding of Chant is exemplified in the "Cum Jubilo" performance.
              Bravo Maestro!
              Jean Danton, Soprano: Songs of Innocence
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                		Jean Danton, Soprano: Songs of Innocence

                Manufacturer: Albany Records
                ProductGroup: Music
                Binding: Audio CD

                All Works by ArgentoAll Works by Argento | Argento, Dominick | ( A ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
                Chamber MusicChamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
                Vocal & SongVocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
                GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
                GeneralGeneral | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
                Modern & 20th CenturyModern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
                ASIN: B0000049RH
                Release Date: 1997-11-04

                Tracks:

                1. Six Elizabethan Songs: Spring
                2. Six Elizabethan Songs: Sleep
                3. Six Elizabethan Songs: Winter
                4. Six Elizabethan Songs: Dirge
                5. Six Elizabethan Songs: Diaphenia
                6. Six Elizabethan Songs: Hymn
                7. Three Songs Of Innocence: Piping Down The Valleys Wild
                8. Three Songs Of Innocence: The Shepherd
                9. Three Songs Of Innocence: The Echoing
                10. Songs About Spring: Who Know's If The Moon's A Balloon
                11. Songs About Spring: Spring Is Like A Perhaps Hand
                12. Songs About Spring: In Just - Spring
                13. Songs About Spring: In Spring Comes
                14. Songs About Spring: When Faces Called Flowers Float Out Of The Ground
                15. Nocturnes: The Moon
                16. Nocturnes: Returning, We Hear The Larks
                17. Nocturnes: River Roses
                18. Nocturnes: The Owl
                19. Nocturnes: Boat Song
                20. For A Sleeping Child - Lullabies & Midnight Musings: Wynken, Blynken And Nod
                21. For A Sleeping Child - Lullabies & Midnight Musings: All The Pretty Little Horses
                22. For A Sleeping Child - Lullabies & Midnight Musings: The Mother's Song
                23. For A Sleeping Child - Lullabies & Midnight Musings: Some Time
                Be Glad Then, America
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                  		Be Glad Then, America

                  Manufacturer: Paraclete Press
                  ProductGroup: Music
                  Binding: Audio CD

                  All Works by ArgentoAll Works by Argento | Argento, Dominick | ( A ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
                  All Works by BernsteinAll Works by Bernstein | Bernstein, Leonard | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
                  All Works by GinasteraAll Works by Ginastera | Ginastera, Alberto | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
                  Ives, CharlesIves, Charles | ( I ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
                  All Works by ThompsonAll Works by Thompson | Thompson, Randall | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
                  All Works by ThomsonAll Works by Thomson | Thomson, Virgil | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
                  GeneralGeneral | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
                  GeneralGeneral | Ives, Charles | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
                  General ModernGeneral Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
                  GeneralGeneral | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music
                  GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
                  GeneralGeneral | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
                  HymnsHymns | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
                  MotetsMotets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
                  PsalmsPsalms | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
                  ASIN: B000003XFI
                  Release Date: 1996-02-15

                  Music Composers:

                  1. Arne, Thomas
                  2. Arnold, Malcolm
                  3. Ashley, Robert
                  4. Auric, Georges
                  5. Babbitt, Milton
                  6. Bacewicz, Grazyna
                  7. Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel
                  8. Bach, Johann Christian
                  9. Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich
                  10. Bach, Johann Sebastian

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