John Harbison: Winter's Tale

BMOP/sound 1023

August 2012

2-CD

Disc 1: 41:19

Disc 2: 42:43

• John Harbison (b. 1938)

• David Kravitz, baritone
• Janna Baty, mezzo-soprano
• Anne Harley, soprano
• Matthew Anderson, tenor
• Pamela Dellal, mezzo-soprano
• Dana Whiteside, bass
• Christian Figueroa, tenor
• Paul Guttry, bass
• Aaron Engebreth, baritone
• Jeramie Hammond, bass

• Boston Modern Orchestra Project
• Gil Rose, conductor

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Track Listing

Disc 1

•  Winter's Tale (1974, rev. 1991)
•  Act 1
•  Sicilia. Leontes's palace.
• 1.Dumbshow 1
• 2.Scene 1: Too hot, too hot!

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• 3.Scene 1: Is he won yet?
• 4.Scene 1: Inch thick, knee-deep! Over head and ears a fork'd one.
• 5.Scene 1: Camillo, this great sir will stay here longer.
• 6.Scene 1: Who does infect her?
• 7.Dumbshow 2
• 8.Scene 2: Come now, sit by us, and tell a tale.
• 9.Scene 2: Do not weep, good fools
• 10.Scene 2: Be certain what you do, sir
• 11.Scene 2: Nor night, nor day, no rest
• 12.Scene 2: My lord! I come from your good queen.
• 13.Scene 3: Hermione, queen to Leontes, thou art here accused
• 14.Scene 3: To me can life be no commodity.
• 15.Scene 3: Then in Apollo's name the oracle

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• 16.Scene 3: This news is mortal to our queen
• 17.Dumbshow 3

Disc 2

•  Act II
•  Bohemia. Sixteen years later.
• 1.Dumbshow 4
• 2.Scene 1: A country sheep-shearing festival begins.
• 3.Scene 1: Rev'rend sirs, for you there's rosemary and rue
• 4.Scene 1: Dance of the Twelve Satyrs
• 5.Scene 1: Now my fairest friend
• 6.Scene 1: What you do still betters what is done.

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• 7.Scene 1: Dance of Shepherds and Shepherdesses
• 8.Scene 1: Fond boy, we bar thee from succession.
• 9.Scene 1: Camillo, I must put to sea with her
•  Sicilia. Leontes's palace.
• 10.Scene 2: When I remember her and her virtues
• 11.Scene 2: Only when your first queen is in breath
• 12.Scene 2: Polixenes is hast'ning to the court
• 13.Dumbshow 5
•  A chapel.
• 14.Scene 3: Paulina, we have not yet seen
• 15.Scene 3: Masterly done.
• 16.Scene 3: Music; awake her; strike!

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• 17.Dumbshow 6