Notes From The Asylum
Label: CHAMPS HILL RECORDS Catalog: CHRCD111 Format: COMPACT DISC MCCALDIN BURGESSA new and intriguing theme for an album, "Notes From The Asylum" centers around songs written about female madness. Included are works by Purcell/Britten, Harriet Abrams, Hugo Wolf, Ned Rorem, and Stephen McNeff. From the Wolf selection, written before the composer spent his final days in an asylum, to the Rorem setting of five Sylvia Plath poems, mezzo-soprano Clare McCaldin breathes life into these works. Price: $25.98 |