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The Lament for Beowulf

  • Genre/Type Descriptor(s)
    Musical Composition
    Audio Recording
     
    Language(s)
    English
  • Composer
    Hanson, Howard
    Librettist
    Morris, William
    Conductor
    Hanson, Howard
    Recording Artist
    Eastman-Rochester Orchestra
    Recording Artist
    Eastman School of Music Chorus
  • Contained in
    Symphonies 1 & 2; Lament for Beowulf; Prologue, by Howard Hanson
    Location Details
    Track 7
    Publisher
    Valis
    Date
    2009
  • Relationships
  • Identifying Numbers
    Discogs.com release no. 12029575
     
    Descriptive Notes

    Duration 18:59. Track 7 of 8 on 1 compact disc. Hanson's 1925 Lament for Beowulf is now grouped with his Symphony No. 1 ("Nordic") and Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic"), and with a work listed as Prologue. The Lament for Beowulf is identified in the track listing as from "victor 78 records set" (quoted from an image of the CD's printed matter posted on Discogs.com).

    "Prologue" is an excerpt from Dance Suite by a different composer, Spencer Norton. The "Prologue" to Dance Suite was used as a filler of the 6th side (on a set of 3 78rpm vinyl records) in the earliest published recording of Hanson's Lament for Beowulf. Valis has absorbed that recording whole-cloth into this new compilation, without attribution to the composer of "Prologue," as is shown by the printed track listing's identification of "Prologue" as a "bonus on the same victor 78 records set" (quoted from the same image linked above).

    The same annotations that prove this to be a reproduction of the early recording give its original date as 1944—on what ultimate authority is unknown.

     
    Authentication

    Catalog/seller listing at Discogs.com; information incomplete.

  • Last Updated
    04/05/2022