The Bells (with John Adams-Harmonium)
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RACHMANINOV
The Bells (with John Adams-Harmonium)
Renee Fleming (soprano) Karl Dent (tenor) Victor Ledbetter (baritone) / Atlanta Symphony Orchestra / Robert Shaw
[ Telarc Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 9 January 2004
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Rachmaninoff's choral symphony, The Bells, is based on a Russian version of Edgar Allan Poe's poem by that title.
The Russian version, written by symbolist poet Konstantin Balmont, is slightly shorter than Poe's original, and ends in a somewhat more peaceful, sentimental fashion.
Harmonium, by the American composer John Adams, was the composer's first commissioned work during his tenure as Composer-in-Residence to the San Francisco Symphony from 1979 to 1985. The piece is a set to the texts of three poems, one by John Donne (Negative Love) and two by Emily Dickinson (Because I Could Not Stop For Love and Wild Nights).
Tracks:
Rachmaninoff - The Bells
John Adams - Harmonium
