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Message: <blockquote data-quote="uploader_elakiri" data-source="post: 11680127" data-attributes="member: 385502">Stravinsky - The Flood  (1995)Here there are none.  Without exception, these are the best recorded performances of these four works ? performances which at last detach those favourite labels for late Stravinsky (?hermetic?, ?arcane? ? see Peter Lieberson?s insert note) and allow music which in fact holds no particular terrors for the willing listener back into the public domain where it belongs. The playing is immaculate throughout, the conducting controlled, sensitive and intuitive, the recordings lucid and well-balanced. David Wilson-Johnson is beyond praise in Abe and Ike, as its admirers (including me) like to call it; he doesn?t merely impale his voice on it, he really sings it. Only the narrator in The Flood bothers me: Michael Berkeley is too ?Proms presentation?.Wuorinen?s Reliquary is an oddity, but a brilliant one. The Stravinsky connection (it?s based on unused late sketches) is a slight red herring: a few gestures recall the Master, but the musical thinking and scale are un-Stravinskian, and none the worse for that. It?s a gripping piece, and well worth the appearance of coat-tailing.TracklistThe Flood (1961-62) - [21'17]A Musical Play01. Prelude: "Te Deum laudamus" (chorus, Narrator, God, Lucifer/Satan)02. Melodrama: "In a worm's likeness will he wend" (Narrator, Satan, God, Noah)03. The Building of the Ark (Choreography) [orchestra]04. The Catalogue of the Animals: "The Lord bade that I should bring" (Noah, Caller)05. The Comedy (Noah and his wife): "Wife, come in!" (Noah, Noah's Wife, Noah's Sons)06. The Flood (Choreography) [orchestra]07. The Covenant of the Rainbow: "A Covenant, Noah, with thee I make" (God, Noah, Satan, Narrator, chorus)Lucifer (Satan): PETER HALL, tenorGod/Noah's Sons: DAVID WILSON-JOHNSON, bass-baritone ? STEPHEN RICHARDSON, bassSPEAKING PARTS:Narrator: MICHAEL BERKELEYNoah: BERNARD JACOBSONNoah's Wife: LUCY SHELTONCaller: PETER HALLNew London Chamber Choir (James Wood, director)Abraham and Isaac (1962-63) - [11'18]A Sacred Ballad for baritone and chamber orchestra08. "Vay'hi ahar hadvarim ha'eleh v'ha'Elohim" ( "After these things God tested Abraham" )09. "Vayikakh Avraham et atze ha'olah" ( "And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering" )10. "Vayi sa Avraham et enav vayat v'hineh" ( "And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked" )DAVID WILSON-JOHNSON, bass-baritone11. Variations (1963-64) - [5'04]Aldous Huxley in memoriamRequiem Canticles (1965-66) - [14'27]for contralto and bass soli, chorus and orchestra12. Prelude [orchestra]13. Exaudi (chorus)14. Dies irae (chorus)15. Tuba mirum (bass)16. Interlude [orchestra]17. Rex tremendae (chorus)18. Lacrimosa (contralto)19. Libera me (chorus)20. Postlude [orchestra]SUSAN BICKLEY, contraltoDAVID WILSON-JOHNSON, bass-baritoneNew London Chamber ChoirSoloists (in "Libera me" ):Marie Power (soprano) ? Pippa Thynne (alto)Antony Townsend (tenor) ? Peter Johnson (bass)CHARLES WUORINEN (193<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite6" alt="8-)" title="Cool    8-)" loading="lazy" data-shortname="8-)" />A Reliquary for Igor Stravinsky (1974-75) - [17.12]21. Reliquary22. Variation23. Lament (Marcia Crayford, violin)24. Variation continued25. Reliquary26. Coda[code]http://www.filesonic.com/file/4037804814/Stravinsky.-.The.Flood,.Abraham.and.Isaac,.Variations,.Requiem.Canticles.&.Wuorinen.-.Reliquary.(1995).[FLAC].{LS,.Knussen}.(DG).rar[FLAC].{LS,.Knussen}.(DG).rar[FLAC].{LS,.Knussen}.(DG).rar[FLAC].{LS,.Knussen}.(DG).rar[FLAC].{LS,.Knussen}.(DG).rar[/code]</blockquote>

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