Argento: The Andrée Expedition / From the Diary of Virginia Woolf
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DOMINICK ARGENTO
Argento: The Andrée Expedition / From the Diary of Virginia Woolf
Brian Mulligan (baritone) Timothy Long (piano)
[ Naxos American Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 7 August 2017
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Dominick Argento is widely considered to be one of America's leading composers of lyric opera and choral music. The two major song cycles on this recording demonstrate Argento's flair for setting unusual texts to music. From the Diary of Virginia Woolf, which won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Music, is based on eight of the writer's confessional journal entries, while The Andrée Expedition sets diaries and letters from an ultimately tragic balloon expedition to the North Pole in 1897. "For me, all music begins where speech stops." - Dominick Argento
"The Andrée Exposition (1982) uses letters and diaries from two of the three Swedish men who set out on a doomed exploration of the North Pole via balloon in 1897 and weren't heard of again until their bodies were discovered thirty-three years later. Argento makes something grand and epic out of their hare-brained mission. …Timothy Long provides masterfully sculpted renditions of the varied and challenging piano parts, which range from spare and crystalline (evoking the icy North) to rolling and transcendent.
Argento won a Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for his penetrating cycle From the Diary of Virginia Woolf. …Mulligan delivers Argento's plain-spoken, pensive setting with appropriate serenity. Throughout, he sings with gratifyingly clear diction…" Opera News Critics Choice
