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Samuel Barber, Jean Belmont, John Corigliano
Fern Hill: American Choral Music
Genres: Special Interest, New Age, Pop, Classical

Track Listings (14) - Disc #1
1. At The Earth's Imagined Corners
2. L'Invitation au Voyage
3. The Passionate Shepherd To His Love
4. The Roadside Fire
5. A Red, Red Rose
6. Reincarnations, Op. 16: 1. Mary Hynes
7. Reincarnations, Op. 16: 2. Anthony O Daly
8. Reincarnations, Op. 16: 3. The Coolin (The Fair Haired One )
9. Fern Hill
10. Shenandoah
11. Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
12. Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye
13. I'm Goin' Away
14. Deep River

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CD Details

All Artists: Samuel Barber, Jean Belmont, John Corigliano, James Mulholland, Williametta Spencer, Spiritual Traditional, Charles Bruffy, Kansas City Chorale, Patricia Higdon
Title: Fern Hill: American Choral Music
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Nimbus Records
Release Date: 10/3/1995
Genres: Special Interest, New Age, Pop, Classical
Styles: Vocal Pop, Opera & Classical Vocal, Sacred & Religious
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 710357544927

Synopsis

Amazon.com

Several world premieres highlight this disc from the outstanding Kansas City Chorale, including the title work and a setting of "L'Invitation au Voyage", both by John Corigliano. While these, unfortunately, are uninspiring original works by Jean Belmont and James Mulholland, settings of "Shenandoah" by Conrad Susa and "Deep River" by Roy Ringwald are excellent. Unexcelled performances of Barber's "Reincarnations" round out the program. --David Vernier

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CD Reviews

Fantastic blend of voices and styles. A must get!

03/12/1999

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This recording of the Kansas City Chorale is a wonderful collection of American songs ranging from 20th century Britten to spiritual arrangements that are superbly sung. I have sung many of these songs myself, and will heartily recommend this CD to anyone looking for a choir with tremendous expression, musicality, and tone. This CD has a variety of music that music teachers can use to preview pieces for use in their choirs. It isn't often that you can find an album that has such a combination of styles, and it is refreshing to listen to. If nothing else, purchase this CD for the title piece Fern Hill."

No reservations on this one

Joshua Saulle | Yonkers, NY USA | 06/04/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Never mind the few gripes of the Amazon reviewer. What he decries as "unoriginal" settings by Belmont and Mulholland are wonderful settings by composers who have clearly mastered the art of choral arrangement and composition. Their rich harmonies are colored with wonderfully expressive dissonances which tense and then resolve into lush consonances, but never does the harmony become ponderous or leaden. 'The Passionate Shepherd', 'The Roadside Fire' are totally satisfying, far more so than many more 'original' works which place their originality above emotional expression. 'A Red, Red Rose' is the most beautiful setting of the poem I've ever encountered.
I concur with the reviewer on the rest of the disc. Splendid singing and musical interpretation. I lost my copy of this disc and I am pining for it, so I've come back to buy another. It's that good."