Jamie Barton, Jake Heggie, Matt Haimovitz - Jake Heggie - Unexpected Shadows (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Star mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton presents a recital of songs by American composer Jake Heggie, with the composer at the piano. UNEXPECTED SHADOWS is a celebration in words and music of powerful, exceptional women. The program contains four song cycles, a standalone art song, and an opera aria.

The Work at Hand, set to poetry of the late Laura Morefield, contemplates the brave fight against cancer that she, and millions like her, went through. Matt Haimovitz’ cello playing adds an extra layer to this profoundly moving song cycle. Iconic Legacies, with texts by Gene Scheer, offers four portraits of remarkable First Ladies. Scheer also wrote texts for Statuesque, inspired by five iconic sculptures of women and the deeply human stories within them. Of Gods & Cats, based on poetry by Gavin Dillard, offers playful parodies on religious allegories. Music, set to a text by Sister Helen Prejean, addresses the transformative, healing, and humanizing power of music, while the “Ice Cube Aria” from Heggie’s opera If I Were You, with a libretto by Gene Scheer, shows the female demon Brittomara reflecting on the delicious predictability of human nature.

Award-winning mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton, just named BBC Music Magazine’s 2020 Personality of the Year, makes her PENTATONE debut. Jake Heggie has a vast discography with the label, including the opera It’s a Wonderful Life (2017) and song recital albums by Melody Moore, Lisa Delan and Joyce DiDonato. The same applies to Matt Haimovitz, who has released several albums on PENTATONE, from contemporary classical and jazz and rock covers to Bach’s complete cello suites.

TRACKLIST

1. Jamie Barton, Jake Heggie, Matt Haimovitz - The Breaking Waves: No. 3, Music
2. Jamie Barton, Jake Heggie, Matt Haimovitz - The Work at Hand (Version for Voice, Piano & Cello): No. 1, Original Origami
3. Jamie Barton, Jake Heggie, Matt Haimovitz - The Work at Hand (Version for Voice, Piano & Cello): No. 2, Warrior 1
4. Jamie Barton, Jake Heggie, Matt Haimovitz - The Work at Hand (Version for Voice, Piano & Cello): No. 3, The Slow Seconds
5. Jamie Barton, Jake Heggie, Matt Haimovitz - If I Were You: I Don't Have to Do a Thing
6. Jamie Barton, Jake Heggie, Matt Haimovitz - Iconic Legacies (First Ladies at the Smithsonian): No. 1, Eleanor Roosevelt [Marian Anderson's Mink Coat]
7. Jamie Barton, Jake Heggie, Matt Haimovitz - Iconic Legacies (First Ladies at the Smithsonian): No. 2, Mary Todd Lincoln [Abraham Lincoln's Hat]
8. Jamie Barton, Jake Heggie, Matt Haimovitz - Iconic Legacies (First Ladies at the Smithsonian): No. 3, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis [White House Christmas Card, 1963]
9. Jamie Barton, Jake Heggie, Matt Haimovitz - Iconic Legacies (First Ladies at the Smithsonian): No. 4, Barbara Bush [The Muppets]
10. Jamie Barton, Jake Heggie, Matt Haimovitz - Of Gods and Cats: No. 1, In the Beginning
11. Jamie Barton, Jake Heggie, Matt Haimovitz - Of Gods and Cats: No. 2, Once Upon a Universe
12. Jamie Barton, Jake Heggie, Matt Haimovitz - Statuesque: No. 1, Henry Moore Reclining Figure in Elmwood
13. Jamie Barton, Jake Heggie, Matt Haimovitz - Statuesque: No. 2, Pablo Picasso Head of a Woman, 1932
14. Jamie Barton, Jake Heggie, Matt Haimovitz - Statuesque: No. 3, Hatshepsut the Divine Potter
15. Jamie Barton, Jake Heggie, Matt Haimovitz - Statuesque: No. 4, Alberto Giacometti Standing Woman, 1948
16. Jamie Barton, Jake Heggie, Matt Haimovitz - Statuesque: No. 5, Winged Victory We're Through



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