Death of the Hired Man [CD-single]

Editorial Reviews
From the Artist
He smashes the mold.

There are no conventional phrases. the singers intone.

The piano is a percussive force; a fierce combatant against big voiced singers who emerge not from a huge stage but from a space as intimate as a boxing ring where each side struggles to prevail.

"Life's toughness needs to be reflected in song."

Album Description
Andrew Violette isn't one to save his best tricks for first. Sure, Piano Sonatas, The Brooklyn-based composer and pianist's monumental Innova debut, garnered lavish critical praise and established Mr. Violette as one of the most thoroughly original composers working in America today—with good reason. But that was then, back in 2003.

The Death of the Hired Man, Andrew Violette's new Innova release, finds the former Benedictine Monk tackling vocal music with Wagnerian gusto—minus the excess—even as he trades last year's austerity for extended displays of pianistic pyrotechnics that complement the album's two compositions to a tee. Granted, he's not the sole spectacle generator this time out. Soprano Sherry Zannoth contributes mightily to the title track, a setting of the Robert Frost poem, and to The Love Duet, a Walt Whitman treatment that finds her sonically intertwined with tenor Brad Cresswell to marvelous effect. Still, now as always, the focus is on Violette's compositions—and his uncanny propensity for creating maximum-scale fireworks with minimum personnel.

Poems by Walt Whitman and Robert Frost

Tracks:

Before The Sunrise
Wolf Song (War Dance)
The Sadness of the Lodge
2 Lover's Wooing (Or Blanket Song)
Zunian Lullaby: Incantation Upon A Sleeping Infant-Invocation To The Sun-God
Kiowa-Apache War Dance
From An Indian Lodge
Indian Idyl
Sun-Dance
Scalp Dance
Evening At The Lodge
The Chattering Squaw
On The Jocko
Song Of The Deathless Voice
Ichibuzzhi, Op. 13
Pawnee Horses
Dawn, Op. 12
Shawnee Indian Huntling Dance

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Music of Lord Berners

Manufacturer: Symposium
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000051W6L
Release Date: 2001-01-30

Tracks:

Polka - Lord Berners/Peter Dickinson
Lieder Album: 3 Songs In The German Manner: Du Bist Wie Eine Blume - Lord Berners/Meriel Dickinson/Peter Dickinson
Lieder Album: 3 Songs In The German Manner: Konig Wiswamitra - Lord Berners/Meriel Dickinson/Peter Dickinson
Lieder Album: 3 Songs In The German Manner: Weihnachtslied - Lord Berners/Meriel Dickinson/Peter Dickinson
Fragments Psychologiques: La Haine - Lord Berners/Peter Dickinson
Fragments Psychologiques: Le Rire - Lord Berners/Peter Dickinson
Fragments Psychologiques: Un Soupir - Lord Berners/Peter Dickinson
Dialogue Between Tom Filuter And His Man, By Ned The Dog Stealer - Lord Berners/Bernard Dickerson/Richard Rodney Bennett
Lullaby - Lord Berners/Meriel Dickinson/Peter Dickinson
The Lady Visitor In The Pauper Ward - Lord Berners/Meriel Dickinson/Peter Dickinson
The Green-Eyed Monster - Lord Berners/Meriel Dickinson/Peter Dickinson
Le Poisson D'Or - Lord Berners/Susan Bradshaw
Red Roses And Red Noses - Lord Berners/Meriel Dickinson/Peter Dickinson
Trois Petites Marches Funebres: For A Statesman - Lord Berners/Susan Bradshaw
Trois Petites Marches Funebres: For A Canary - Lord Berners/Susan Bradshaw
Trois Petites Marches Funebres: For A Rich Aunt - Lord Berners/Susan Bradshaw
Trois Chansons: Romance - Lord Berners/Meriel Dickinson/Peter Dickinson
Trois Chansons: L'Etoile Filante - Lord Berners/Meriel Dickinson/Peter Dickinson
Trois Chansons: La Fiancee Du Timbalier - Lord Berners/Meriel Dickinson/Peter Dickinson
Valse Bourgeoises: Valse Brillante - Lord Berners/Susan Bradshaw/Richard Rodney Bennett
Valse Bourgeoises: Valse Caprice - Lord Berners/Susan Bradshaw/Richard Rodney Bennett
Valse Bourgeoises: Strauss, Strauss Et Strauss - Lord Berners/Susan Bradshaw/Richard Rodney Bennett
Dispute Entre Le Papillon Et Le Crapaud - Lord Berners/Susan Bradshaw
Three Sea-Shanties: The Rio Grande - Lord Berners/Bernard Dickerson/Richard Rodney Bennett
Three Sea-Shanties: A Long Time Ago - Lord Berners/Bernard Dickerson/Richard Rodney Bennett
Three Sea-Shanties: Theodore Or The Pirate King - Lord Berners/Bernard Dickerson/Richard Rodney Bennett
Come On Algernon - Lord Berners/Meriel Dickinson/Peter Dickinson
Fanfare - Lord Berners
Nicholas Nickleby (Incidental Music): Introducing Nicholas & Madeline/Kate At The Mantalinis... - Lord Berners
Les Sirenes: Ballet Music: Habanera-Farruca-Valse - Lord Berners
Les Sirenes: Prld - Lord Berners
Les Sirenes: Mazurka - Lord Berners
Polka - Lord Berners

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"Dwell Records Presents: A TRIBUTE TO RUSH [Anthem - Engrave Speed Death / Working Man - Killingfield / Bastille Day - Shallows Of The Mundane / Subdivisions - Hostile Intent / What You're Doing - Hate Theory / Tears - Capital 2 / Passage To Bangkok - Scary German Guy / Tom Sawyer - Disarray / The Temples Of Syrinx - Blood Coven / Freewill - Mythiasin / Red Barchetta - Prototype / The Spirit Of Radio - Premonition
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ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000PL0ZIQ