Jennifer Higdon – Cold Mountain Opera, Live recording

Jennifer Higdon – Cold Mountain Opera, Live recording

Artist(s):

Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Nathan Gunn, Isabel Leonard, Jay Hunter Morris, Emily Fons, Robert Pomakov

Composer(s):

Jennifer Higdon
Release Date: 01-04-2016
PTC: 5186583
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CD1

ACT I

1) “Peaches In The Summertime” 4:33
2) “What was his name?” 6:08
3) “The Metal Age” 6:09
4) “I Don’t Like That Man” 4:30
5) “Who Ya’ Talkin’ To?” 4:01
6) “We Once Lived In A Land Of Paradise” 6:44
7) “Sun’s Up. You’ll Eat Later…” 2:32
8) “My Only Teacher Was Hunger” 6:34
9) “Why Can’t We?” 3:35
10) “Mister, How Much To Ferry Me Across?” 2:36
11) “Look At Me, I’m Floating” 6:07
12) “Listen” 8:08
13) “A Fence Is A Good Thing” 3:37
14) “I Told You. I’m A Preacher!” 2:47
15) “Come Back To Cold Mountain” 4:58

CD2

16) Opening 0:58
17) “Is That All You Got?” 7:08
18) “Interlude: Inman Walking” 1:09
19) “Orion” 2:46
20) “Bless You, Ruby” 6:13
21) “Your Baby Sick?” 6:31
22) “Funny Lookin’ Scarecrow…” 4:31
23) “Get Up! Quick!” 2:32
24) “I Should Be Cryin’ But I Just Feel Numb” 2:41
25) “Howdy, Strangers... Keep Playin’...” 4:51
26) “Our Beautiful Country” 4:17
27) “Ada’s aria” 4:40
28) “I’m Lost” 3:30
29) “You Just Need To Rest. We’ll Talk Later.” 6:31
30) “Tell Her” 11:39
31) “Epilogue, nine years later” 2:20

ACT II

Total Tracks 31
Total Duration 02hr 25min

Album information

Originally imported into the US from the European continent, opera was seen by many as an elite art form representing antiquated interests. Nonetheless, the American opera repertoire expanded over the centuries and nowadays, American operas are written by Pulitzer Prize, Grammy Award and Oscar-winning composers, based on award-winning contemporary novels. Their direct and clear connection to modern society has been the inspiration to create PENTATONE’s American Opera Series. Cold Mountain, composed by Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer Jennifer Higdon, set to a libretto by Gene Scheer and based on a 1997 National Book Award-winning novel by Charles Frazier, is one of three operas that will be released in this series in 2016. It received its world premiere at The Santa Fe Opera on 1 August 2015 where it was performed by The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya and recorded live for this double album. It was co-commissioned by and is a co-production with both Opera Philadelphia and the Minnesota Opera. This performance was prized as the Winner of the International Opera Award for Best World Premiere of 2016.

‘After years of searching for a story that would be the focus of my first opera, I read the first several pages of Charles Frazier’s award-winning Cold Mountain and realized this was it. […]Looking to confirm my suspicion, I checked and discovered that the [Higdon] family farm was a mere 60 miles, as the crow flies, from Cold Mountain. Writing this opera would be a recollection of the landscape of my formative years…a familiarity that I would welcome in a new-to-me genre.’ – Jennifer Higdon

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