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Tobias Picker, Nashville Symphony & Giancarlo Guerrero - Opera Without Words & The Encantadas (2020)

Posted By: delpotro
Date: 29 Aug 2020 15:51:04
Tobias Picker, Nashville Symphony & Giancarlo Guerrero - Opera Without Words & The Encantadas (2020)

Tobias Picker, Nashville Symphony & Giancarlo Guerrero - Opera Without Words & The Encantadas (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 218 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 134 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:57:56
Classical | Label: Naxos Records

Tobias Picker, hailed as “a genuine creator” by The New Yorker, has written extensively for the stage and for symphonic forces, and these two approaches are represented in this album. The Encantadas (an older name for the Galápagos Islands) derives from a novella by Herman Melville. Picker has set it as a melodrama, exploring the enchanted isles in all their quietly menacing and spectacular beauty. In a radical new form, Picker’s Opera Without Words is set to a libretto by Irene Dische that has now been removed, allowing the music alone to bear the expressive richness and intensity of this “secret opera.”

"Musically educated in New York, latterly at the Julliard School, and with Charles Wuorinen, John Corigliano and Milton Babbit among his mentors, he was soon working to prestigious commissions from orchestras on both sides of the Atlantic. The present release comes from two such commissions, the Encantadas premiered by the Albany Symphony in 1983. the title coming from the early name for the Galapagos Islands. In six sections it relates the journey made there by the famous writer, Herman Melville. He recounted both the visually strange appearance of the rocky structures that had been formed through centuries, and the animals and birds he discovered living there. The work was conceived for narrator and a standard sized orchestra, and, on this recording made in 2019, the composer is the very articulate voice that relates Melville’s discoveries he made there. The more recent score, Opera Without Words, was completed five years ago, and had a strange birth. He had hired a librettist, Irene Dische, to conceive the story, and, after many discussions, all was completed, even down to the stage actions and directions for the producer. Now Picker could get down to composing the music. But it did not work out as expected, Picker deciding to dispense with words, though giving each of the five scenes a title. From those you can create your own story, the basis being a very wide-ranging scenario. It receives its World Premiere Recording by one of the commissioning orchestras, the Nashville Symphony. They, and their conductor Giancarlo Guerrero, provide a very colourful score, both works instantly enjoyable in pure tonality. The booklet includes the words narrated in The Encantadas and I hope there is more Picker coming from Naxos." (David’s Review Corner)
Tracklist:
1. Tobias Picker, Nashville Symphony & Giancarlo Guerrero – The Encantadas (Version for Narrator & Orchestra): I. Dream (04:38)
2. Tobias Picker, Nashville Symphony & Giancarlo Guerrero – The Encantadas (Version for Narrator & Orchestra): II. Desolation (02:47)
3. Tobias Picker, Nashville Symphony & Giancarlo Guerrero – The Encantadas (Version for Narrator & Orchestra): III. Delusion (03:31)
4. Tobias Picker, Nashville Symphony & Giancarlo Guerrero – The Encantadas (Version for Narrator & Orchestra): IV. Diversity (10:19)
5. Tobias Picker, Nashville Symphony & Giancarlo Guerrero – The Encantadas (Version for Narrator & Orchestra): V. Din (03:27)
6. Tobias Picker, Nashville Symphony & Giancarlo Guerrero – The Encantadas (Version for Narrator & Orchestra): VI. Dawn (05:30)
7. Nashville Symphony & Giancarlo Guerrero – Opera Without Words, Scene 1: The Beloved (05:12)
8. Nashville Symphony & Giancarlo Guerrero – Opera Without Words, Scene 2: The Minstrel (05:02)
9. Nashville Symphony & Giancarlo Guerrero – Opera Without Words, Scene 3: The Idol (06:44)
10. Nashville Symphony & Giancarlo Guerrero – Opera Without Words, Scene 4: The Gladiator (04:01)
11. Nashville Symphony & Giancarlo Guerrero – Opera Without Words, Scene 5: The Farewell (06:40)

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