{"product_id":"crossman-white-nakagoshi-life-before-us","title":"Crossman \/ White \/ Nakagoshi- Life Before Us (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBearing musical witness to the versatile talents of two acclaimed northern California-based composers, The Life Before Us combines works from John G. Bilotta and Allan Crossman. Bilotta's cycle of Yeats Songs, performed by baritone Andrew R. White, highlights five of the poet's shorter lyrics in predominantly bi-tonal or atonal settings. His collection of Renaissance Songs is based on the work of several Elizabethan poets, including John Donne and Thomas Lodge. They're brilliantly delivered by tenor Justin Marsh. Bilotta draws on two American poets, Carl Sandburg and Edna St. Vincent Millay, for \"Lost\" and \"Prayer to Persephone,\" two songs united by a single poetic theme and elegantly performed by soprano Cass Panuska accompanied by pianist Hadley McCarroll, who are also featured on The Hippocampus' Monologue, the closing aria from the first act of Bilotta's opera Rosetta's Stone. Allan Crossman's ten songs on The Life Before Us include four inspired by the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca and an international array of others: from Ireland (James Joyce), Germany (Hermann Claudius and Ricarda Huch), Russia (Alexander Scriabin), and America (Louis Phillips), performed by mezzo-soprano Megan Stetson and bass Richard Mix, with the composer himself at the piano. Crossman's three-movement Sonata fLux, with pianist Keisuke Nakagoshi, flows from the energetic \"Moto Atlantico\" through the vibrating \"fLight of the Firefly\" to the swirling fluidity of \"Rondo a Pollock\" - inspired, as it's title suggests, by Jackson Pollock's 'action painting' technique - and brings the eclectic program to an impressive conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYeats Songs: I. The Lover Pleads With His Friend For Old Friends\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYeats Songs: II. The Moods\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYeats Songs: III. A Drinking Song\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYeats Songs: IV. The Old Men Admiring Themselves In The Water\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYeats Songs: V. Maid Quiet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRenaissance Songs: I. Prisoners\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRenaissance Songs: II. The Silver Swan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRenaissance Songs: III. Aubade\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRenaissance Songs: IV. Bitter-Sweet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRenaissance Songs: V. A Fancy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10 Songs: No. 1, New Songs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10 Songs: No. 2, New Songs 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10 Songs: No. 3, Dream\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10 Songs: No. 4, Water\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10 Songs: No. 5, Landscape\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10 Songs: No. 6, Deep In The Heavens\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10 Songs: No. 7, That Windless Hour\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10 Songs: No. 8, Poem Of Ecstasy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10 Songs: No. 9, The Leaves Murmur In The Wind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10 Songs: No. 10, My Entire Life Before Me\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePiano Sonatina: I. Grazioso E Leggero\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePiano Sonatina: II. Adagietto\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePiano Sonatina: III. Con Brio\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePiano Sonatina No. 2: I. Languido\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePiano Sonatina No. 2: II. Delicato\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePiano Sonatina No. 2: III. Volando\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePiano Sonatina No. 3: I. Giocoso\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePiano Sonatina No. 3: II. Andantino\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePiano Sonatina No. 3: III. Furioso\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRosetta\u0026amp;#39;s Stone: The Hippocampus\u0026amp;#39; Monologue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2 Songs On American Poetry: No. 1, Lost\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2 Songs On American Poetry: No. 2, Prayer To Persephone\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSonata Flux: I. Moto Atlantico\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSonata Flux: II. Flight Of The Firefly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSonata Flux: III. 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