Gordon Getty: The Little Match Girl

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Release Date: 18th Sep 2015
Catalogue No: PTC5186480
Label: Pentatone
Length: 66 minutes

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Getty: A Prayer for my Daughter

Work length13:28

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Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Munich Radio Orchestra
Asher Fisch

Getty: Poor Peter

Work length9:36

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Nikolai Schukoff
Munich Radio Orchestra, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Asher Fisch

I. Where Is My Lady

Track length2:45

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II. Tune the Fiddle

Track length1:24

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III. Ballad of Poor Peter

Track length5:27

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Getty: The Little Match Girl

Work length23:50

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Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Munich Radio Orchestra
Asher Fisch

Getty: Joan and the Bells

Work length19:55

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Melody Moore, Lester Lynch
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Munich Radio Orchestra
Ulf Schirmer

I. Judgment

Track length7:03

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II. Joan in Her Chamber

Track length6:16

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III. The Square at Rouen

Track length6:36

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As is often the case in the vocal compositions of distinguished American composer Gordon Getty, many of the pieces collected in 'The Little Match Girl' are based on, or inspired by, poetry from the nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries.

This SACD starts with 'A prayer for my daughter' for chorus and orchestra, based on the poem by William Butler Yeats which is, according to Getty, “...one of the most admired works by one of the most admired poets of the age”.

It is followed by 'Poor Peter' for tenor, chorus and orchestra, with lyrics by Getty himself inspired by Poe and again Yeats. Then follows the titular 'The little match girl' - the heartbreaking fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, put to music more or less word-for-word in a challenging setting for the orchestra and particularly the chorus.

The disc concludes with 'Joan and the bells', Getty’s own narrative of the trial of Joan of Arc, about which he said, “It was the genius of Shaw that inverted this safe literary tradition and brought out the spunky teenager in Joan. Jean Anouilh went farther, in The Lark, and gave her the simplicity of preadolescence. Joan and the Bells owes much to these masters, particularly Anouilh, and takes the same poetic license. It is a tale of a child’s faith in an age without childhood, of a valour undeflected, and of the redemption these qualities commend.”

The disc comes with a booklet containing the complete lyrics to all the pieces as well as personal comments about the music by the composer himself, which enriches the listening experience.

This recording by the Münchner Rundfunkorchester and the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks was conducted by Asher Fisch and Ulf Schirmer ('Joan and the Bells'). It features magnificent soloists, such as tenor Nikolai Schukoff ('Poor Peter'), soprano Melody Moore ('Joan and the Bells') and baritone Lester Lynch ('Joan and the Bells').

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