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Two machine protraits / [words by] Les Murray (3:44) -- The long boat / Stanley Kunitz (2:34) -- Twang / Wallace Stevens (3:16) -- Lightenings VIII / Seamus Heaney (2:21) -- Visible / Paul Auster (2:50) -- September 11, 2001 / W.H. Auden (10:34) -- Fenton songs / James Fenton (9:46) -- Christes Crosse / Thomas Morley (4:09) -- Pentecost / Derek Walcott (3:35) -- A song to the lute in musicke / ascribed to Richard Edwards (3:28) -- Stanzas before time / John Ashbery (3:56) -- A winter's tale / Dylan Thomas (25:23).
The 1st and 6th works for tenor and piano; the 2nd work for mezzo-soprano and English horn; the 3rd-4th, 8th, and 13th works for soprano and piano; the 5th work for mezzo-soprano and violin; the 7th work for soprano, 2 guitars, violin, and violoncello; the 9th and 11th works for tenor and harp; the 12th work for soprano, clarinet, horn, violin, viola, violoncello, and piano.
The 3rd-4th, 7th, and 12th works previously released.
Includes texts and program notes on insert.
Ryan MacPherson, William Ferguson, tenor ; Mary Nessinger, mezzo-soprano ; Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Elizabeth Farnum, soprano ; Jacqueline Leclair, English horn ; Mark Steinberg, violin ; June Han, harp ; Phillip Bush, James Winn, Alan Feinberg, piano ; Cygnus Ensemble (Oren Fader, William Anderson, guitar ; Jacqui Carrasco, violin ; John Whitfield, violoncello) ; Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (David Shifrin, clarinet ; Robert Routch, horn ; Carmit Zori, violin ; Steven Tenenbom, viola ; Fred Sherry, violoncello ; James Winn, piano) ; Charles Wuorinen, conductor.
Recorded in New York City at the American Academy of Arts and Letters on Nov. 16-17, 1993 (3rd, 12th works), June 17, 1996 (4th work), Nov. 18, 2000 (10th work), June 7, 2003 (8th work), Nov. 14, 2005 (2nd, 5th-6th works), and Oct. 30, 2006 (1st, 9th, 11th works), and in Purchase, N.Y. at the Performing Arts Center, SUNY Purchase on Sept. 23, 1999 (7th work).