classical music: Lori Laitman
classical music:
Lori Laitman
The Shining Place
Lee Hoiby
, Lori Laitman, ...
Elmgrove Productions, 2006
Songs for our time by living American composers. All but two of the songs are world premiere recordings. Beginning with a setting of The Shining Place by poet Emily Dickinson, the poetry is collectively a meditation of the self in time; in the light, the here and now, and the hereafter.
Lori Laitman: Becoming a Redwood
Lee Poulis
,
Randall Scarlata
, ...
Albany Records, 2006
Lori Laitman Triumphs in Third CD!
I discovered the wonderfully melodic, highly original songs of Lori Laitman through her first album, "Mystery," and I later reviewed her second album, "Dreaming," for Amazon. I couldn't wait to hear what this gifted composer would produce next, and when "Becoming A ...
Mystery: Songs of Lori Laitman
William Sharp
,
Thomas Kraines
, ...
Albany Records, 2000
Reprint of March online Operanews.com review
Composer Lori Laitman knows how to let the voice soar and explore, and recitalists looking to update their concert repertory would do well to pick up this disc for ideas. Laitman lets the texts inform her music, spinning lyrical neo-romantic vocal lines over shifting ...
Dreaming: Songs of Lori Laitman
Randall Scarlata
,
William Sharp
, ...
Albany Records, 2003
Reprint from The Journal of Singing, Jan/Feb 2004
The title of this disk and the image of a sleeping child on the cover might lead one to assume that this is one more "Music to Relax By" recording to add to countless others that have already been made and that threaten to overwhelm the planet. This is actually a ...
So Much Beauty
Craig Rine
,
David Burge
, ...
Elmgrove Productions, 2004
Contemporary songs of great beauty and approachability. Most of the songs are world premiere recordings. This is also the first compact disk recording of Dan Locklair's "In the Almost Evening." Carol Sams wrote her three song cycle for the recording, based upon the poetry of Arthur Mampel. The album was recorded on location in Lagerquist Concert ...
American Song Recital
Leonard Bernstein
,
William Bolcom
, ...
Channel Classics Nl, 1993
AMERICAN SONG RECITAL
AMERICAN SONG RECITAL Channel Classics Records has taken a first-rate initiative in giving winners of important international music competitions the opportunity to record a CD in the "Winning Artists Series." This CD, with fairly unknown American songs, is part of the ...
Hans Krása: Brundibár
Michael Drumheller
,
Morgan Smith
, ...
Naxos, 2006
Childrens' voices are missed
While the English translation and orchestration is fine, the impact of the original opera, performed entirely by children of Terezin, nearly all of whom perished, is lost by using adult voices as soloists.
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