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Seventeen of these 32 songs aren't otherwise available on disc, and they include some of Rorem's finest and most haunting. The utter simplicity that weaves a magic spell in Nantucket, the beautiful... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: 8559084
Label: Naxos
Series: American Classics
Length: 58 minutes

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Rorem: The Waking

Work length2:46

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: Root Cellar

Work length2:02

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: My Papa’s Waltz

Work length1:23

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: I Strolled Across an Open Field

Work length1:15

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: Memory

Work length1:08

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: Orchids

Work length1:58

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: The Serpent

Work length1:58

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: Night Crow

Work length1:36

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: Snake

Work length0:59

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: Little Elegy

Work length1:26

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: The Nightingale

Work length1:14

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano), Eleanor Buchan (reader)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: The Nantucket Songs

Work length1:13

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Nantucket

Track length1:13

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Rorem: Lullaby of the woman of the Mountain

Work length2:02

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: Love in a life

Work length3:31

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: What if some little pain

Work length1:49

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: Visit to St Elizabeth’s

Work length3:34

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Work length1:45

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: Spring

Work length1:51

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: See how they love me

Work length1:40

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal

Work length2:53

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: I am Rose

Work length0:23

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: Ask me no more

Work length3:00

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: Far-Far-Away

Work length1:48

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: Early in the morning

Work length1:37

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: Alleluia

Work length2:25

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: Such beauty as hurts to behold

Work length2:12

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: Sally’s Smile

Work length0:51

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: Youth, day, Old Age and Night

Work length2:06

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: O you to whom I often and silently come

Work length0:27

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

O You Whom I Often and Silently Come

Track length0:27

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Rorem: Full of life now

Work length1:48

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: As Adam early in the morning

Work length1:26

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

Rorem: Are you the new person?

Work length2:30

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Ned Rorem (piano), Carole Farley (soprano)
Recorded: 6th - 9th June, 2000
Recording Venue: Old North Church, Nantucket, MA, USA

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2010

Seventeen of these 32 songs aren't otherwise available on disc, and they include some of Rorem's finest and most haunting. The utter simplicity that weaves a magic spell in Nantucket, the beautiful paralleling of Gerard Manley Hopkins's ecstatic imagery in Spring, the bare but deeply eloquent Such beauty as hurts to behold, the amiable contemplation of old age and possible immortality in Full of life now – all these are warmly welcome, and it's good to have for the first time a complete recording of Rorem's nine settings of Theodore Roethke. Carole Farley's diction is so immaculate that you'll hardly need the booklet of texts, and her acute response to words must be one reason why Rorem so willingly collaborated with her on this recording. About the voice itself some might have a reservation. Although Farley fines her tone down for the most part effectively her sound is basically operatic. But rejecting this disc on that account would mean foregoing the infectious lilt of The Nightingale, the amply lyrical, movingly expressive Love in a life, the beautiful long lines of Ask me no more and all the others mentioned. No, admirers of Rorem's unique talent will simply have to have this collection. His piano-playing is beautifully supportive.

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