Composer: Shara Nova, Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Caroline Shaw, Sarah Kirkland Snider
Performer: A Far Cry, Shara Nova
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Nonesuch
Catalogue: 7559790799
Release: 2022
Size: 735 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
The Blue Hour
01. No. 1, Prologue
02. No. 2, Opening
03. No. 3, A black map
04. No. 4, A memory
05. No. 5, A syllable
06. No. 6, Angelica-balefire
07. No. 7, Canticle
08. No. 8, Dark
09. No. 9, Early summer’s green plums
10. No. 10, Even if by forgetting
11. No. 11, Firmament
12. No. 12, 1st Refrain
13. No. 13, Ghost swift
14. No. 14, He told her how
15. No. 15, Her hair
16. No. 16, I am alone
17. No. 17, In the toy store
18. No. 18, It appears to be an elegy
19. No. 19, J’ai rêvé
20. No. 20, Keeping a record
21. No. 21, Library lilac
22. No. 22, My dear
23. No. 23, Nevertheless
24. No. 24, Oil soap
25. No. 25, Older than clocks
26. No. 26, Poppy seed
27. No. 27, 2nd Refrain
28. No. 28, She heard no one’s footsteps
29. No. 29, Tendril
30. No. 30, The ganglia
31. No. 31, The hole
32. No. 32, The name
33. No. 33, The silence
34. No. 34, Twirling
35. No. 35, Vesture, vigil
36. No. 36, We are as paper
37. No. 37, Yet the women
38. No. 38, You are the ghost
39. No. 39, Zero
40. No. 40, 3rd Refrain
The Blue Hour, a song cycle written collaboratively by the female composers Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, and Sarah Kirkland Snider; a unique joint vision among a female collective. The cycle was commissioned by, and is performed with, the Boston-based chamber orchestra A Far Cry.