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Songs of Innocence & of Experience
Artist:
Layla
Format: CD
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1. Introduction
2. The Ecchoing Green
3. The Lamb
4. The Shepherd
5. Infant Joy
6. The Little Black Boy
7. Laughing Song
8. Spring
9. A Cradle Song
10. Nurse's Song
11. Holy Thursday
12. The Blossom
13. Interlude
14. The Chimney Sweeper
15. The Divine Image
16. Nocturne
17. Night
18. A Dream
19. On Another's Sorrow
20. The Little Boy Lost
21. The Little Boy Found
22. Coda
1. Introduction
2. Hear The Voice Of The Bard
3. Interlude
4. Earth's Answer
5. Nurse's Song
6. The Fly
7. The Tyger
8. The Little Girl Lost
9. In The Southern Clime
10. The Little Girl Found
11. The Clod And The Pebble
12. The Little Vagabond
13. Holy Thursday
14. A Poisin Tree
15. The Angel
16. The Sick Rose
17. To Tirzah
1. The Voice Of The Ancient Bard
2. My Pretty Rose Tree
3. Ah! Sun-Flower
4. The Lilly
5. Introduction To Part V
6. The Garden Of Love
7. A Little Boy Lost
8. A Little Girl Lost
9. Infant Sorrow
10. Vocalise
11. London
12. The School Boy
13. The Chimney Sweeper
14. The Human Abstract
15. Interlude: Voces Clamandae
16. A Divine Image
More Info:
William Bolcom: Songs of Innocence and of Experience (2004) - Carmen Pelton (soprano), Christine Brewer (soprano), Contemporary Directions Ensemble, Ilana Davidson (soprano), Jeremy Kittel (fiddle), Joan Morris (mezzo-soprano), Linda Hohenfeld (soprano), Marietta Simpson (contralto), Measha Brueggergosman (soprano). From the time he was a teenager, William Bolcom had dreamed of setting William Blake's epic poem collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience to music - and eventually he did. But it took over a quarter of a century, from the first completed songs at age 17 in 1956 until 1982 when, as a tenured professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Bolcom was finally able to find time to pull it all together. And then Bolcom had to wait another two years for the first performance in Stuttgart, and another 20 years until some record company was enterprising enough to take it on. In the eclectic spirit of Blake, the result is an extraordinary synthesis, a two-hour-and-17-minute song cycle for choirs, vocalists, electric and folk instruments, and symphony orchestra, in which Bolcom throws in just about every style he can think of.
