David Lang: The Difficulty of Crossing a Field
Beverly O'Regan Thiele (soprano), Laquita Mitchell (soprano), Mari-Yan Pringle (soprano), Nicole Mitchell (alto), Martin Bakari (tenor), Jorell Williams (baritone), Brandon Coleman (bass), Isaiah Robinson (tenor), Cree Carrico (soprano), Daniel Zippi (actor), Jay O. Sanders (actor), Christopher Burchett...
This is the first recording of David Lang's work, premiered in 2002 with the Kronos Quartet in San Francisco, and it's long overdue. Lang's melancholic, sparse motifs are wonderfully haunting...
David Lang: The Difficulty of Crossing a Field
Beverly O'Regan Thiele (soprano), Laquita Mitchell (soprano), Mari-Yan Pringle (soprano), Nicole Mitchell (alto), Martin Bakari (tenor), Jorell Williams (baritone), Brandon Coleman (bass), Isaiah Robinson (tenor), Cree Carrico (soprano), Daniel Zippi (actor), Jay O. Sanders (actor), Christopher Burchett...
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This is the first recording of David Lang's work, premiered in 2002 with the Kronos Quartet in San Francisco, and it's long overdue. Lang's melancholic, sparse motifs are wonderfully haunting...
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- Beverly O'Regan Thiele (soprano), Laquita Mitchell (soprano), Mari-Yan Pringle (soprano), Nicole Mitchell (alto), Martin Bakari (tenor), Jorell Williams (baritone), Brandon Coleman (bass), Isaiah Robinson (tenor), Cree Carrico (soprano), Daniel Zippi (actor), Jay O. Sanders (actor), Christopher Burchett (baritone), Melissa White (violin)
- Harlem String Quartet
- Douglas Kinney Frost
- Recording Venue: Studio G Brooklyn and Good Child Music Studios
Scene [poison hemlock]: The third telling (Williamson Girl, Williamson, Mrs. Williamson)
Track length10:43
Scene [black nightshade]: The sixth telling (Williamson, Williamson Girl, Boy Sam, Virginia)
Track length5:01
Scene [foxglove]: The seventh telling (Mrs. Williamson, Williamson Girl, Boy Sam, Chorus, Virginia)
Track length13:21
Awards and reviews
December 2015
This is the first recording of David Lang's work, premiered in 2002 with the Kronos Quartet in San Francisco, and it's long overdue. Lang's melancholic, sparse motifs are wonderfully haunting and the Harlem Quartet's dirge-like strings, circling the witnesses' testimony, heighten the all-pervasive sense of dark mystery.
