TRACK LISTING

 

Bilotta

Yeats Songs (1977)

Andrew R. White baritone   Hadley McCarroll piano

 

1  I.The Lover Pleads With His Friend For Old Friends   1:46

2  II. The Moods   1:14

3  III. A Drinking Song   0:37

4  IV. The Old Men Admiring Themselves In The Water   1:22

5  V. Maid Quiet   2:24

 

Bilotta

Renaissance Songs (1976)

Justin Marsh tenor   Hadley McCarroll piano

 

6  I. Prisoners   0:58

7  II. The Silver Swan   1:00

8  III. Aubade   0:56

9  IV. Bitter-Sweet   1:05

10  V. A Fancy   0:50

 

Crossman

10 SONGS

Megan Stetson mezzo-soprano (11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19)

Richard Mix bass (13,18, 20)   Allan Crossman piano

 

11  I. New Songs  (poem by Lorca)   0:57

12  II. New Songs 2  (Lorca)   2:26

13  III. Dream  (Lorca)   2:00

14 IV. Water  (Claudius)   1:38

15  V. Landscape  (Lorca)   1:51

16  VI. Deep In The Heavens (Huch)   0:52

17  VII. That Windless Hour (Joyce)   1:41

18  VIII. Poem Of Ecstasy  (Scriabin)   2:24

19  IX. The Leaves Murmur In The Wind (Spain)   1:40

20  X. My Entire Life Before Me  (Louis Phillips)   2:08

 

Bilotta

Three Sonatinas, for piano (2014)

Karolina Rojahn piano

 

Sonatina Nº 1

21  I. Grazioso e leggero   1:31

22  II. Adagietto   1:02

23  III. Con brio   0:58

 

Sonatina Nº 2

24  I. Languido   1:06

25  II. Delicato   1:33

26  III. Volando   0:46

 

Sonatina Nº 3

27  I. Giocoso   0:51

28  II. Andantino   2:00

29  III. Furioso   0:40

 

Bilotta

30  The Hippocampus’ Monologue (2013)   3:40

from the opera “Rosetta’s Stone”

Cass Panuska soprano   Hadley McCarroll piano

 

Bilotta

Two Songs on American Poetry (1976)

Cass Panuska soprano   Hadley McCarroll piano

 

31  I. Lost    2:19

32  II. Prayer to Persephone    3:00

 

Crossman

Sonata fLux, for piano (2011)

Keisuke Nakagoshi piano

 

33  I. Moto Atlantico   6:12

34  II. fLight of the Firefly   4:36

35  III. Rondo a Pollock   5:06

 

 

 

CREDITS

 

Yeats Songs, Renaissance Songs, The Hippocampus’ Monologue,

Two Songs on American Poetry

Recorded July 25, 2017 at The Sol Joseph Recital Hall in San Francisco CA Conservatory of Music

Recording Engineer Mark Lemaire

 

10 Songs & Sonata fLux, for piano

Recorded July 2017 at The Sol Joseph Recital Hall in San Francisco CA Conservatory of Music

Recording Engineer Mark Lemaire

Recording Producer Seth Ducey

 

Three Sonatinas, for piano

Recorded June 30, 2017 at Futura Productions in Roslindale MA

Recording Producer John Page

Recording Engineer John Weston

Assistant Engineer Alec Seymour

 

 

 

Songs - permissions

 

Liner notes written by Allan Crossman and John G. Bilotta

 

Keisuke Nakagoshi photo by permission of Naxos

 

• New Songs, New Songs 2, Landscape, Dream - text from LORCA, ©1960 by New Directions Publishing Corp., translations by J.L. Gili. Used by permission.

 

•  Water, Deep in the Heavens - from TWENTIETH-CENTURY GERMAN VERSE,

©1952 by Princeton University Press, translations by Herman Salinger.

Used by permission.

 

• That Windless Hour - from A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN,

by James Joyce, ©1916 by B.W. Huebsch, NY, NY. Public Domain.

 

• Poem of Ecstasy - from SCRIABIN, by Faubion Bowers, ©1969 by Kodansha International, Ltd.

Used by persmission.

 

• The Leaves Murmur in the Wind - from THE PENGUIN BOOK OF SPANISH VERSE,

Penguin Books, Ltd.; translation  ©1956, 1960 by J.M. Cohen. Used by permission.

 

• My Entire Life Before Me - from THE DOMAIN OF SILENCE, by Louis Phillips,

© 2015 by Pleasure Boat Studio, NY, NY. Used by permission.

 

all music © Allan Crossman

 

 

 

 

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