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Special offer. Hagen, D A: Shining Brow

Robert Orth (baritone), Brenda Harris (soprano), Robert Frankenberry (tenor), Matthew Curran (bass-baritone), Elaine Valby (mezzo-soprano) & Gilda Lyons (soprano)

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra & Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus, JoAnn Falletta

Hagen, D A: Shining Brow
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Special offer. Hagen, D A: Shining Brow

Robert Orth (baritone), Brenda Harris (soprano), Robert Frankenberry (tenor), Matthew Curran (bass-baritone), Elaine Valby (mezzo-soprano) & Gilda Lyons (soprano)

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra & Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus, JoAnn Falletta

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Daron Hagen and Paul Muldoon’s first, and highly successful, opera is based on the life of the great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin (Welsh for ‘Shining Brow’), the home he built for himself in Wisconsin.

Popular with audiences and critics alike, Shining Brow has been hailed as a masterpiece full of fresh ideas, and is frequently performed.

"Hagen has a gift for the big tune, and he serves up some beauties” New York Times

“Its libretto is unusually inventive and poetic” Capital Times

Official Shining Brow Website: www.daronhagen.com/brow

Contents and tracklist

Hagen, D A: Shining Brow
Work length2:17:59
  • Brenda Harris (soprano), Robert Frankenberry (tenor), Elaine Valby (mezzo-soprano), Robert Orth (baritone), James Demler (baritone), Elem Eley (baritone), Matthew Curran (bass-baritone), Gilda Lyons (soprano), Jennifer Lynn Reckamp (soprano), Tony Barton (tenor), Deborah Fleischer (soprano), Eric Fleischer (tenor)
  • Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus
  • JoAnn Falletta
  • Recorded: 4-5 November 2006
  • Recording Venue: Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, New York
Prologue: So much so, that even now I flinch… (Sullivan, Waiter)
Track length4:38
Prologue: So the poetry of architecture… (Draftsmen)
Track length1:04
Act I Scene 1: Some are destined to stand… (Wright, Mamah, Edwin, Draftsmen)
Track length5:11
Act I Scene 1: The music, so… the music of architecture… (Draftsmen)
Track length1:29
Act I Scene 1: Arietta: And her scent, was it musk? (Wright)
Track length3:23
Act I Scene 1: Aria: If not for me, then for the children's sake… (Catherine, Wright)
Track length4:46
Act I Scene 1: Aria: Each room opens into the next, Catherine… (Wright, Sullivan)
Track length4:47
Act I Scene 1: Interlude: Sullivan Variations
Track length2:23
Act I Scene 1: When I woke up this morning… (Workmen)
Track length3:17
Act I Scene 2: Far be it from me to suggest… (Women, Workmen)
Track length2:55
Act I Scene 2: Arietta: Three long days and three long nights… (Edwin, Workmen)
Track length2:25
Act I Scene 2: Aria: The truth is that my mouth is full of nails (Edwin)
Track length3:20
Act I Scene 2: They say the soul weighs about the same as… (Workmen, Mamah, Wright)
Track length3:00
Act I Scene 2: Melodrama: Be it mud hut, mansion or mosque… (Mamah, Wright, Edwin)
Track length1:34
Act I Scene 2: Trio: For three long months I've tried to ease… (Mamah, Wright, Edwin)
Track length4:04
Act I Scene 2: Interlude: She sweeps us off our feet …, "Hymn to Nature" (Chorus)
Track length2:00
Act I Scene 3: …back into earth and air (Mamah, Chorus)
Track length0:45
Act I Scene 3: Frank, how much longer must I endure…? (Mamah)
Track length14:52
Act II: Prelude
Track length1:32
Act II: So much, so much, so much, so much, so… (Townspeople, Reporters, Guests)
Track length1:50
Act II: Sextet: With a tally ho and view halloo… (Reporters, Townswomen)
Track length3:10
Act II: Aria: Ladies and Gentlemen… (Wright, Chorus)
Track length9:01
Act II: Questions: Mister Wright! (Reporters, Townswomen)
Track length0:49
Act II: Dialogue: Together, Mamah, we will take… (Wright, Mamah, Chorus)
Track length2:26
Act II: Sextet: Just my luck to end up here… (Reporters, Wright, Mamah)
Track length1:55
Act II: Interlude: For when all's said and done, we'd like to know… (Barbershop Quartet)
Track length2:20
Act II: Canape Variations: As the guests arrive at Taliesin… (Company)
Track length9:11
Act II: Oration: I am the birch stripped of its bark (Chef)
Track length1:07
Act II: Interlude: The Fire
Track length2:28
Act II: Scene: Frank. Lieber Meister… (Wright, Sullivan)
Track length4:55
Act II: Duet: For ten long years I’ve tried to heal… (Wright, Sullivan)
Track length4:09
Act II: Eddie? Why so crestfallen? So forlorn? (Wright, Edwin, Sullivan)
Track length1:51
Act II: Arietta: I cry out from the Slough of Despond… (Sullivan)
Track length2:11
Act II: Out of the depths we heard them cry again… (Townspeople, Wright)
Track length2:23
Act II: For ten long hours they were trapped… (Wright, Edwin)
Track length5:47
Act II: Out of the depths we heard them cry again… (Townpeople, Wright)
Track length1:43
Act II: Arietta: Not musk, cedar perhaps… (Wright)
Track length2:03
Act II: Aria: He's found! We've found the chef! (The Maid)
Track length2:17
Act II: Not maple. Pine; the scent of a plain pine box… (Wright, Chorus)
Track length2:36
Act II: Aria: I think of the balsam fir… (Wright)
Track length6:22

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