Release Date: 10 January 2015
Label: Cantaloupe - Cd / Cantaloupe Music
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 713746311124
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Wolfe
Description
Haunting, poignant and relentlessly physical, Julia Wolfe's Anthracite Fields is a lovingly detailed oratorio about turn-of-the-20th-century Pennsylvania coal miners, and a fitting recipient of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Music. NPR Music's Tom Huizenga describes the piece as "...almost a public history project and a music project at the same time". Weaving together personal interviews that she conducted with miners and their families, along with oral histories, speeches, rhymes and local mining lore, Wolfe sought to honour the working lives of Pennsylvania's anthracite region. "It's not necessarily mainstream history," she told NPR shortly after she received word of winning the Pulitzer. "The politics are very fascinating-the issues about safety, and the consideration for the people who are working and what's involved in it. But I didn't want to say, 'Listen to this. This is a big political issue.' It really was, 'Here's what happened. Here's this life, and who are we in relationship to that?' We're them. They're us. And basically, these people, working underground, under very dangerous conditions, fuelled the nation. That's very important to understand."
Tracklisting
David Handler
Vicky Chow
The Crossing, JACK Quartet, the musicians of the University of Michigan Department of Chamber Music
Lisa Moore
Jason Treuting; Iarla O Lionaird; Sam Amidon; Angelica Negron
Alex Weiser; Annie Rosen; Lee Dionne; Yasmina Spiegelberg
Rakhi Singh
Molly Netter; Sarah Brailey; Trio Mediaeval; Kate Maroney; Gene Stenger; Dashon Burton; Jeffrey Dou
Diego Caicedo
Diego Caicedo
Anna Netrebko; Yusiv Eyvazov; Sonya Yoncheva; Vittorio Grigolo; Roman Burdenko; Ferruccio Furlanett
Caitriona O'Leary; Boris Bergmann
Zuzana Ferjencikova
Zuzana Ferjencikova
Yajie Zhang; Narine Yeghiyan; Chor und Orchester der Berliner Operngruppe; Felix Krieger
Vincent Larderet
