John Harbison: Winter's Tale

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BMOP/sound

1023

Recording Release Date

August 2012

SACD Recording

Recording Length

Disc 1: 41:19

Disc 2: 42:43

John Harbison (b. 1938)

Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Gil Rose, conductor

BMOP/sound presents the complete revised version of John Harbison's first opera.

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Track listing

Disc 1

Winter's Tale (1974, rev. 1991)

Sicilia. Leontes's palace.

Scene 1: Too hot, too hot!

Scene 1: Is he won yet?

Scene 1: Inch thick, knee-deep! Over head and ears a fork'd one.

Scene 1: Camillo, this great sir will stay here longer.

Scene 1: Who does infect her?

Scene 2: Come now, sit by us, and tell a tale.

Scene 2: Do not weep, good fools

Scene 2: Be certain what you do, sir

Scene 2: Nor night, nor day, no rest

Scene 2: My lord! I come from your good queen.

Scene 3: Hermione, queen to Leontes, thou art here accused

Scene 3: To me can life be no commodity.

Scene 3: Then in Apollo's name the oracle

Scene 3: This news is mortal to our queen

Disc 2

Scene 1: What you do still betters what is done.

Scene 3: Music; awake her; strike!

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[News Coverage] Sequenza 21 names John Harbison: Winter's Tale Best of 2012

Boston Modern Orchestra Project, continues to be persuasive advocates for American composers: both live and on CD. Under the direction of Gil Rose, BMOP is one of the few orchestras devoted to American music that regularly – and prolifically – records. Their imprint, BMOP sound, released several noteworthy recordings in 2012. Among my favorites was a double CD of John Harbison’s opera Winter’s Tale, a relatively early work that boasts a wonderfully pungent and engaging score.

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