Transmigration

Using street-sounds and voices alongside the choir and orchestra, Transmigration, one of Adams's finest works, eschews anger, bitterness and condemnation, yet presents stark depictions of grief,... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 24th Aug 2009
Catalogue No: CD80673
Label: Telarc
Length: 72 minutes

Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op. 11

Work length8:48

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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Robert Spano
Recorded: 2009

Higdon: Dooryard Bloom

Work length23:21

$0.85

$1.15

Nmon Ford (baritone)
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Robert Spano
Recorded: 2009

Corigliano, J: Elegy

Work length8:25

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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Robert Spano
Recorded: 2009

Adams, J: On The Transmigration of Souls

Work length23:56

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$1.15

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Gwinnett Young Singers, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Robert Spano
Recorded: 2009

Barber: Agnus Dei

Work length7:41

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$1.15

Norman Mackenzie (chorus director)
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus
Recorded: 2009

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This new recording by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra conducted by Robert Spano bears the title “Transmigration”, and is a collection of hymns and requiems for those we wish to honour and remember.

The featured pieces are Samuel Barber’s universal expressions of loss, “Adagio for Strings” and the vocal transcription “Agnus Dei”, John Corigliano’s “Elegy” to lost youth, Jennifer Higdon’s setting of poetry about Abraham Lincoln, “Dooryard Bloom”, and John Adams’s reflection of personal grief for the victims of the World Trade Centre tragedy on September 11, 2001, “On the Transmigration of Souls”. The ASO is joined on this piece by the Gwinnett Young singers and the soloist in “Dooryard Bloom” is the baritone Nmon Ford.

Robert Spano is recognised internationally as one of the brightest and most imaginative conductors of his generation. His achievements include a 2005 Grammy Award (“Best Choral Album”) for Berlioz’s Requiem and two 2003 Grammy Awards (“Best Classical Album” and “Best Choral Album”) for Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony.

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November 2009

Using street-sounds and voices alongside the choir and orchestra, Transmigration, one of Adams's finest works, eschews anger, bitterness and condemnation, yet presents stark depictions of grief, loss and terror before the music subsides into a recognition of the integral part sorrow played in everyday life after 9/11.

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