DXL1098
Shadow and Substance
Dominick Argento
Howard Haskin (tenor)

Playing time: 72 mins.

   

   

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Dominick Argento (b. 1927) is generally considered as one of the leading US composers of songs and lyric opera and one of the most successful in terms of performances. This disc features three of his most significant song-cycles.

Born in Kansas City, dramatic tenor Howard Haskin enjoys international renown for the extraordinary vocal expressiveness, impeccable musicality and theatrical intensity he brings to every performance. He has performed widely in the UK in operatic roles and recital, including Covent Garden and the Royal Albert Hall, and with many international orchestras including the LSO and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. His discography includes the Grammy-nominated recording of Dallapiccola's Il Prigioniero, Massenet's Thérèse  and the world premiere of Schnittke's Life with an Idiot.

 

Track List

Six Elizabethan Songs
1       Spring                       
2       Sleep
3       Winter
4       Dirge
5       Diaphenia
6       Hymn

Letters from Composers
7       Frederic Chopin
8       Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
9       Franz Schubert
10      Johann Sebastian Bach
11      Claude Debussy
12      Giacomo Puccini
13      Robert Schumann

To be Sung upon the Water         
14      Prologue: Shadow and Substance
15      The Lake at Evening
16      Music on the Water
17      Fair is the Swan
18      In Remembrance of Schubert
19      Hymn near the Rapids
20      The Lake at Night
21      Epilogue: De Profundis