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Ellen West / Ricky Ian Gordon, composer ; Frank Bidart, librettist.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: BSTC-0139 | Bright Shiny ThingsPublisher: [United States] : Bright Shiny Things, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 audio disc : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • performed music
Media type:
  • audio
Carrier type:
  • audio disc
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Contents:
Prologue -- I love sweets -- Why am I a girl? -- Precise -- Now, at the beginning -- About five years ago -- Even as a child I saw -- Slow, furtive -- Nervous -- January sixteenth -- January twenty-first -- February eighth -- February fifteenth -- Transition -- Callas is my favorite singer -- When I open my eyes in the morning -- Interlude -- March thirtieth... -- The train ride yesterday -- On the third day of being home -- Dearest, I remember how at eighteen -- Epilogue/Hymn.
Production credits:
  • Produced by Ricky Ian Gordon & Louis Levitt.
Jennifer Zetlan, soprano ; Nathan Gunn, baritone ; Djordje Nesic, piano ; Aeolus Quartet (Nicholas Tavani, Rachel Shapiro, violins ; Caitlin Lynch, viola ; Alan Richardson, cello ; Evan Premo, double bass) ; Lidiya Yankovskaya, conductor.
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Adult CD Adult CD Main Library CD OPERA Gordon, Ricky Ian Available 33111009912797
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Inspired by one of the earliest cases of existential analysis, poet Frank Bidart and composer Ricky Ian Gordon examine the lives of psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger and his patient, Ellen West. Bidart's poem, which serves as the opera's libretto, juxtaposes the clinical observations of Binswanger with fictitious entries of West's journals, illuminating a psychological portrait of a woman at war with her body.

An operatic poem.

Sung in English

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Jennifer Zetlan, soprano ; Nathan Gunn, baritone ; Djordje Nesic, piano ; Aeolus Quartet (Nicholas Tavani, Rachel Shapiro, violins ; Caitlin Lynch, viola ; Alan Richardson, cello ; Evan Premo, double bass) ; Lidiya Yankovskaya, conductor.

Produced by Ricky Ian Gordon & Louis Levitt.

Recorded live from the PROTOTYPE Festival 2020 January 14-19 Gelsey Kirkland Arts Center Brooklyn.

Prologue -- I love sweets -- Why am I a girl? -- Precise -- Now, at the beginning -- About five years ago -- Even as a child I saw -- Slow, furtive -- Nervous -- January sixteenth -- January twenty-first -- February eighth -- February fifteenth -- Transition -- Callas is my favorite singer -- When I open my eyes in the morning -- Interlude -- March thirtieth... -- The train ride yesterday -- On the third day of being home -- Dearest, I remember how at eighteen -- Epilogue/Hymn.

Compact disc.

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