Barab: Cosmos Cantata

On this CD:

1. Cosmos Cantata, for soprano, tenor, baritone & orchestra
Composed by Seymour Barab
Performed by Margaret Astrup, Richard Holmes, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Frederick Urrey
Conducted by Richard Auldon Clark

2. Dances for oboe & strings
Composed by Seymour Barab
Performed by Manhattan Chamber Orchestra
Conducted by Richard Auldon Clark

3. Moments Macabres, for tenor & orchestra
Composed by Seymour Barab
Performed by Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Frederick Urrey
Conducted by Richard Auldon Clark

Barab: Cosmos Cantata, Music, Richard Holmes, Seymour Barab, Richard Auldon Clark, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Margaret Astrup, Frederick Urrey, Chamber, Chamber Music, Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical, Vocal, Vocal Music
Barab: Cosmos Cantata
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    		Barab: Cosmos Cantata

    Manufacturer: Kleos
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    Chamber MusicChamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
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    Manhattan Chamber OrchestraManhattan Chamber Orchestra | ( M ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
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    ASIN: B00005YKFU
    Release Date: 2001-05-29
    Cosmos Cantata
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • A Humanist Requiem
    		 Cosmos Cantata
    S. Barab
    Manufacturer: Kleos
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
    ASIN: B00005ABH8
    Release Date: 2001-02-20

    Tracks:

    1. I Cosmos Cant: Rest Eternal Grant Us - Margaret Astrup/Frederick Urrey/Richard Holmes
    2. I Cosmos Cant: A Day Of Wrath - Margaret Astrup/Frederick Urrey/Richard Holmes
    3. I Cosmos Cant: As In Life - Margaret Astrup/Frederick Urrey/Richard Holmes
    4. I Cosmos Cant: When Commanded To Give Answers - Margaret Astrup/Frederick Urrey/Richard Holmes
    5. I Cosmos Cant: I Grown Like Oned Condemed - Margaret Astrup/Frederick Urrey/Richard Holmes
    6. I Cosmos Cant: O Cosmos - Margaret Astrup/Frederick Urrey/Richard Holmes
    7. I Cosmos Cant: Hosanna In The Highest - Margaret Astrup/Frederick Urrey/Richard Holmes
    8. I Cosmos Cant: Let Not Eternal Light Disturb Their Sleep - Margaret Astrup/Frederick Urrey/Richard Holmes
    9. II Dances: Pastorale - James Roe
    10. II Dances: Tango - James Roe
    11. II Dances: Waltz - James Roe
    12. II Dances: Saraband - James Roe
    13. II Dances: Two-Step - James Roe
    14. III Moments Macabres: Prld - Frederick Urrey
    15. III Moments Macabres: Old Roger - Frederick Urrey
    16. III Moments Macabres: Down By The Green Wood Shady - Frederick Urrey
    17. III Moments Macabres: The Walk - Frederick Urrey
    18. III Moments Macabres: A Man Of Words And Not Of Deeds - Frederick Urrey
    19. III Moments Macabres: Gypsies In The Wood - Frederick Urrey
    20. III Moments Macabres: Elegy For Frederick The Great - Frederick Urrey
    21. III Moments Macabres: Mama Had A Baby - Frederick Urrey

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars A Humanist Requiem.......2007-01-19

    Cosmos Cantata text by Kurt Vonnegut, music by Seymour Barab, with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra conducted by Richard Auldon Clark Pleasantville, NY: Kleos Classics, 2001: 56 minutes

    Years ago, Vonnegut attended the New York City premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requiem, based on the choral mass for the dead promulgated by the Counter-Reformation Council of Trent. He liked the music but found the lyrics so offensive--"terrible and sadistic"--that he rushed home to write a humanist requiem. The text was published in his "autobiographical collage," Fates Worse Than Death, and has now been set to music by New York composer Seymour Barab as the Cosmos Cantata, a title taken from the poem's opening line, "Rest eternal grant them, O Cosmos, and let not light disturb their peace."

    Vonnegut's thoroughly humanistic and moving text is beautifully rendered by tenor Frederick Urrey in Barab's extraordinary, scintillating score. (Who concocted the myth that humanism is a dry, totally left-brain thing?) Text and music blend smoothly, assisting each other to reach emotional high points. The cantata is well worth listening to over and over again.

    Supplementing the Vonnegut-Barab twenty-five minute cantata are Barab's sprightly "Dances for Oboe and Strings" and his humorous Moments Macabres, eight delightfully humorous and morbid short pieces from anonymous poems in The Oxford Book of Light Verse (edited by W. H. Auden), sung by Urrey. Barab, who deserves to be more well known, is a composer of great talent, wit, and inventiveness.

    Edd Doerr, president of the American Humanist Association

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