John Harbison is an American composer and a leading member of the Neo-Romantic tonal school of American composition. The works are thoughtful, affecting, skilful, and virtuosic (at least for the solo parts). Archetype, a label that was rather new at the time these recordings were made (1997 and 1998), has done a very good job of planning the contents of the disc and selecting performers.Each work is for a different combination, and was recorded in a different hall. The sound is excellent and consistent, the work of producer ...
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John Harbison is an American composer and a leading member of the Neo-Romantic tonal school of American composition. The works are thoughtful, affecting, skilful, and virtuosic (at least for the solo parts). Archetype, a label that was rather new at the time these recordings were made (1997 and 1998), has done a very good job of planning the contents of the disc and selecting performers.Each work is for a different combination, and was recorded in a different hall. The sound is excellent and consistent, the work of producer/engineer Joel Gorden, in charge of all the sessions.Scott Yoo conducts in all cases, but the identities of other performers vary. Lorraine Hunt, mezzo-soprano, is joined by the Greenleaf Chamber Players in Due Libri dei Mottetti di Montale (1980, 1989), a set of eight passionate, dark poems about the end of a love affair. This is a striking song cycle, with the same sort of flamboyant emotionalism as Harbison's Mirabai Songs. The gentle and disturbing Snow Country, a winter pastoral...
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