Bernard Herrmann: Walt Whitman
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| # | Track | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Herrmann, Bernard Whitman, Walt, lyricist(s) Husted, Christopher, arranger(s) Whitman (reconstructed by C. Husted, 2019) | |||
| 1. | Introduction: I, Walt Whitman, heard that you asked for something to prove this puzzle the New World (Whitman) | 0:45 | |
| 2. | Welcome: You! Whoever you are! (Whitman) | 1:27 | |
| 3. | Perpetual Journey: I tramp a perpetual journey (Whitman) | 4:10 | |
| 4. | When the psalm sings instead of the singer (Whitman, Stranger, Cynic) | 2:07 | |
| 5. | Cosmos: A cosmos, of Manhattan, the son! (Whitman, Stranger) | 1:15 | |
| 6. | Song: A simple separate person (Whitman, Cynic) | 2:19 | |
| 7. | Oath: I celebrate myself, and sing myself (Whitman, Child) | 3:05 | |
| 8. | Miracles: I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars (Whitman, Child) | 2:05 | |
| 9. | Battle: Of life immense in passion, pulse and power, I sing (Whitman) | 1:22 | |
| 10. | War: I will acknowledge contemporary lands (Whitman, Radio Voice) | 6:08 | |
| 11. | Ships: Flaunt out, O sea, your separate flags of nations! (Whitman) | 2:08 | |
| 12. | Divinity: Listener out there! (Whitman) | 1:40 | |
| 13. | Finale: I see not America only (Whitman) | 2:26 | |
| Souvenirs de voyage | |||
| 14. | I. Lento: Molto tranquillo | 9:57 | |
| 15. | II. Berceuse: Andante | 6:56 | |
| 16. | III. Andantino: Canto amoroso | 7:33 | |
| 17. | Psycho: A Narrative for String Orchestra (reconstructed by J. Mauceri for string orchestra) | 15:49 | |
| 71:12 |
Bernard Herrmann: Walt Whitman
Added on Thursday, September 03, 2020
HERRMANN, B: Whitman (reconstructed by C. Husted, 2019) (Sharp, Horwitz, Nicely, PostClassical Ensemble, Gil-Ordóñez)
Bernard Herrmann was famous for his film scores, but he was also a leading figure in music for radio, to which he brought his inimitable palette of mood and sonority. Whitman, whose subject is Walt Whitman’s collection of poems Leaves of Grass, was a 1944 radio drama, a genre now much neglected but revived in this newly restored version. Psycho: A Narrative for String Orchestra is not a suite or excerpts from the film but a concert work, re-ordered and re-composed, while Souvenirs de voyage is one of the most polished and seductive of all American chamber works. -NAXOS