Composer: William McClelland
Performer: New York Virtuoso Singers, Krista River, Alex Guerrero, Thomas Meglioranza, Robert May, Margaret Dudley, Donald Berman, Blair McMillen, David Enlow
Conductor: Harold Rosenbaum
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8559906
Release: 2022
Size: 649 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Cædmon’s Hymn
02. Autumnal
03. Autumn 1964
04. Going
05. Poem Composed in Sleep
06. Sea Rose
07. Labrador
08. Storm
09. Hail Lovely and Pure
Five for Piano
10. No. 1, June-Bug Serenade
11. No. 2, Shadow No More
12. No. 3, Demon Cloud
13. No. 4, A Trace
14. No. 5, The Jolly Mortals
15. The Fields of November
16. Insomnia
17. Memory of Summer Facing West
18. The Defective Record
19. Snowstorm in the Midwest
20. The Politician
21. Garden Abstract
22. To One Who Revisited an Old Garden
23. These Last Gifts
Internationally acclaimed composer William McClelland has written a wide variety of music in many styles and forms, but the works in this program have all been inspired by poetry. The choral works evoke the atmosphere of time and place in settings of very early texts, including Catullus’ movingly elegiac lament for his lost brother, These Last Gifts, an experience shared by the composer. The short pieces in Five for Piano all evoke specific poems and, composed over several decades, McClelland’s songs are primarily settings of poetry by American writers that express a mystical, symbolic or visionary view on nature.