A Dylan Thomas Trilogy constitutes the summation of composer John Corigliano's lifelong fascination with the work of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. It incorporates three existing Thomas settings, Fern Hill (1960) -- an early acknowledged entry for Corigliano and one of his best-known choral pieces -- and the orchestral songs Poem in October (1969) and Poem on His Birthday (1976). Corigliano first cobbled together the three into a work for the Washington National Cathedral in 1976, but remained unhappy with the result, returning ...
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A Dylan Thomas Trilogy constitutes the summation of composer John Corigliano's lifelong fascination with the work of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. It incorporates three existing Thomas settings, Fern Hill (1960) -- an early acknowledged entry for Corigliano and one of his best-known choral pieces -- and the orchestral songs Poem in October (1969) and Poem on His Birthday (1976). Corigliano first cobbled together the three into a work for the Washington National Cathedral in 1976, but remained unhappy with the result, returning to it in 1999 for the finishing off, where he shuffled the order of the pieces and replaced what had been short, nebulous transitional material in 1976 with significant and fully developed new sections. Naxos' John Corigliano: A Dylan Thomas Trilogy features Corigliano's longtime champion Leonard Slatkin leading the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in this major cycle, which in the revised version has ballooned to over an hour in length and could easily constitute an evening's...
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