| Management number | 254803999 | Release Date | 2026/11/07 | List Price | US$9.17 | Model Number | 254803999 | ||
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Initially regarded as a master composer of art songs, Jake Heggie has since become known as perhaps America's leading contemporary composer of internationally acclaimed operas. Winning examples of both genres appear on this release: the world premiere recording of a short, one-act opera, The Radio Hour - as well as four shorter vocal pieces. The Radio Hour - the world's first-ever "choral opera" - is a compact work for silent actress, with running narrative and commentary from a choir. The program is rounded out with four mostly art song-based works in varied arrangements, several with choral elements, sung by the vaunted John Alexander Singers. Susan Graham, one of America's most beloved mezzo-sopranos, is heard in three of the shorter pieces; Pacific Symphony members provide the instrumentals. "A masterpiece of clarity and intensity, with a score that is at once thematically compact and richly inventive." San Francisco Chronicle (review of Jake Heggie's opera "Moby Dick")
| Performer | Heggie |
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| Music genre | Classical |
| Music subgenre | Opera/Stage Works |
| Media format | CD |
| Is collectible | Y |
| Has parental advisory label | N |
| Number of discs | 1 |
| Track listing | A Really Bad Day, Through the Door, A New Day, Patterns, I Shall Not Live in Vain, He Will Gather Us Around |
| Record label | Delos Records |
| Composer | Jake Heggie |
| Songwriter | Jake Heggie |
| Track name | The Radio Hour, Part I: A Really Bad Day, Part II: Through the Door, Part III: A New Day, Patterns, I Shall Not Live in Vain, Dead Man Walking: He Will Gather Us Around (Version for Soloist), Dead Man Walking: He Will Gather Us Around (Version for Chorus) |
| Digital audio file format | CD |
| Music media format | CD |
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