Lament for Beowulf
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- Genre/Type Descriptor(s)
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Musical Composition
Audio Recording - Language(s)
- English
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- Composer
- Hanson, Howard
- Librettist
- Morris, William
- Conductor
- Schwartz, Gerard
- Recording Artist
- Seattle Symphony Orchestra
- Recording Artist
- Seattle Symphony Chorale
- Contributor
- Smith, Steven C.
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- Contained in
- Symphonies: First Complete Edition, & Other Works, by Howard Hanson
- Location Details
- Disc 3, track 6
- City
- Hollywood, CA
- Publisher
- Delos International
- Date
- 1992
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- Relationships
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(Upstream) Reproduces in new context -> Lament for Beowulf, Hanson, Howard (1992)
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- Identifying Numbers
- Publisher's catalog no. 3150; Discogs.com release no. 7577203; [MO2 1925(b)].
- Descriptive Notes
Duration: 19:11 as track 6 on CD 3 (of 4); liner notes booklet of 16 pp., reproducing Smith's text from the free-standing 1992 publication of that disc. An incorporation of the 1991 Seattle recording (first published 1992) of Hanson's Lament for Beowulf in a 4-CD set of his complete symphonic works; the box set is also dated 1992. The contents of the set, Delos catalog no. 3150, are as follows:
• Disc 1: Symphony No. 1 ("Nordic"); Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic"); Elegy in Memory of Serge Koussevitzky (originally Delos catalog no. 3073)
• Disc 2: Symphony No. 3; Symphony No. 6; Fantasy Variations of a Theme of Youth (originally Delos catalog no. 3092)
• Disc 3: Symphony No. 4 ("Requiem"); Serenade for Flute, Harp, and Strings; The Lament for Beowulf; Pastorale for Oboe, Harp, and Strings; Suite from the Opera "Merry Mount" (originally Delos catalog no. 3105)
• Disc 4: Mosaics; Piano Concerto in G Major; Symphony No. 5 ("Sinfonia Sacra"); Symphony No. 7 ("A Sea Symphony") (originall Delos catalog no. 3130)
The set has a special booklet of liner notes, paginated as 1-16 (the exterior pages are counted in this pagination).
- Notes on Prior Documentation
MO2 1925(b) does not list specific recordings, but states that Hanson's Lament is "available on compact disc."
- Authentication
BAM.
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- Last Updated
- 05/23/2022