A Dylan Thomas Trilogy
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A Dylan Thomas Trilogy
John Tessier (tenor) Thomas Allen (baritone) / Nashville Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Leonard Slatkin
[ Naxos American Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Saturday 1 November 2008
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Fern Hill is a blithe poem, yet touched by darkness; time finally holds the poet "green and dying" … Poem in October begins in Thomas's seafront town: the poet, marking his birthday, climbs to a high hill, where he reflects on his youth and mulls his future … Poem on his Birthday distorts the "lamb-white days" of Fern Hill to the grotesqueries of "herons who walk in their shroud": Poem in October's sparkling ocean becomes a gull-haunted river Styx … Author's Prologue - his penultimate work - was a lavish, exultant poem that bellowed with lust and life. It called for music as unusual as it was buoyant. And it offered A Dylan Thomas Trilogy the formal inevitability I always dreamed for it …
John Corigliano
Tracks:
Author's Prologue, Part I
Part I: Fern Hill
Author's Prologue, Part II
Part I: Fern Hill
Part II: Poem in October
Part III: Poem on His Birthday
