HAROLD BLUMENFELD
Vers Satanique
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World premiere recording of this distinguished composer's Baudelaire cycle.
Highlighting this recording of vocal works by Harold Blumenfeld is his half-hour Baudelaire cycle for orchestra with baritone and mezzo coloratura, Vers Satanique, in a world premiere recording. The work was long in evolving, beginning life scored for three voices and instrumental ensemble. It was not until numerous reworkings that Blumenfeld was fully satisfied with the version you hear so magnificently performed. Harold Blumenfeld is a composer given to language, opera and the human voice as this recording so dramatically demonstrates.
CONTENTS:
Harold Blumenfeld, composer
Vers Sataniques after Baudelaire
Donnie Ray Albert, baritone, Christine Schadeberg, soprano, National Radio Orchestra of Poland, Joel Eric Suben, conductor
Harold Blumenfeld, composer
Carnet de Damné after Rimbaud
Christine Schadeberg, soprano, St. Louise Ensemble of Eight, Harold Blumenfeld, conductor
Harold Blumenfeld, composer
Mythologies after Derek Walcott
Donnie Ray Albert, baritone, Dallas Voices of Change, Paul Phillips, conductor
REVIEW:
"...these works have an intellectual honesty that that reveals quite a lot about [Harold Blumenfeld's] knowledge of the 20th century's greatest mavericks." (American Record Guide)
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