AMERICAN CLASSICS

Peter Scott LEWIS The Four Cycles Where the Heart Is Pure The Changing Light Five Love Motets Three Songs From Ish River

Susan Narucki, Soprano Christine Abraham, Mezzo-soprano Colin McAllister, Guitar Keisuke Nakagoshi, Piano Stephen Gosling, Piano The New York Virtuoso Singers Quartet Peter Scott Five Love Motets (2014) 12:12 LEWIS 8 No. 1. Dreaming 1:58 (b. 1953) 9 No. 2. In Evergreen Forest 2:28 0 No. 3. Of the Ocean 2:34 Where the Heart Is Pure (Duo Version) (1993/2013) 15:57 ! No. 4. The Rhythm of Your Soul 2:37 1 I. Where the Heart Is Pure 7:17 @ No. 5. Enveloping Our Love 2:35 2 II. Night Along the Columbia 6:35 3 III. Spring Poem in the Skagit Valley 2:05 Texts by Peter Scott Lewis.

Texts by Robert Sund. The New York Virtuoso Singers Quartet Martha Cluver, Soprano • Silvie Jensen, Alto Christine Abraham, Mezzo-soprano Eric Dudley, Tenor • Steven Hrycelak, Bass Keisuke Nakagoshi, Piano Peter Scott Lewis, Conductor

The Changing Light (2013) 15:59 Three Songs From Ish River (1976-78) 6:21 4 I. The Changing Light 2:45 # No. 1. What Day Is It Now? 2:13 5 II. Big Sur Light 6:12 6 III. The Moon Stayed Full Last Month 5:07 Text by Robert Sund. 7 IV. Dictionaries of Light 1:55 $ No. 2. Going Out To Meet the Moon Whales 2:24 Texts by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Text by Paulé Bartón, translated by Howard Norman. The New York Virtuoso Singers Quartet Martha Cluver, Soprano • Silvie Jensen, Alto % No. 3. Once More, The Round 1:44 Eric Dudley, Tenor • Steven Hrycelak, Bass Text by Theodore Roethke. Stephen Gosling, Piano Peter Scott Lewis, Conductor Susan Narucki, Soprano Colin McAllister, Guitar

This recording was made possible by generous and appreciated gifts from Lucia Bogatay and two anonymous donors. Recorded at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California, USA, on 2nd June, 2014 (tracks 1-3); at Oktaven Audio, Yonkers, New York, USA, on 11th and 14th November, 2014 (tracks 4-12); Special thanks to , NYVS Music Director, and at Studio West, San Diego, California, USA, on 4th June, 2014 (tracks 13-15). for helping to prep the vocal quartet. Peter Scott Lewis (b. 1953) Peter Scott Lewis The Four Cycles Currently San Francisco based, yet internationally active, Peter Scott Lewis’s music Where the Heart Is Pure was completed on December 8, The cycle is based on three Lawrence Ferlinghetti has been commissioned and/or performed throughout North America, Europe, and 1993, and is based on three poems by Robert Sund. It poems from his book How to Paint Sunlight (New Japan by many outstanding orchestras, chamber ensembles, soloists, and depicts a journey out to see him on at the mouth of the Directions, 2001). They are The Changing Light, Big Sur conductors. They include the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; the Orion, Skagit River, in Washington State, where he lived for Light, and Dictionaries of Light. Yet since Big Sur Light is Alexander, and Ciompi String Quartets, the Bakken and Merling Trios, Dorian Wind years in a wonderfully converted net shack over the water an extended poem in eight parts, I’ve divided it at a logical Quintet, Conspirare, and members of the Rotterdam Philharmonic, San Francisco next to Bald Island. break between parts 6 and 7, purely for musical reasons. Symphony, Berkeley Symphony, and Chamber Symphony of Princeton. The poems included in the cycle are There Is No Therefore, the cycle has a total of four songs. Conductors and soloists include Alan Gilbert, Kent Nagano, David Tanenbaum, and Exile Where the Heart Is Pure (for Pablo Casals), Night Five Love Motets was completed in August of 2014. It Susan Narucki, among many others. In addition to his many chamber music works, Along the Columbia, Day in Blewett Pass, Going Home is scored for vocal quartet (SATB) and is based on five of he has composed a body of major works for orchestra, including five concertos. and Spring Poem in the Skagit Valley. my poems. This is the sixth recording devoted to his music. The score was originally composed for mezzo- Three Songs From Ish River was composed between soprano and chamber orchestra or ensemble. The 1976 and 1978. Going Out to Meet the Moon Whales (the version with chamber ensemble was premièred by the middle song) was commissioned by Seattle’s Intiman principal players of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, Theater, as part of the music I composed for Barry Stephanie Friedman, soloist, and Laurent Pillot, Pritchard’s The Northwest Show, a multi-media play conductor, on June 25, 1995. It was recorded soon after based on the history of the Pacific Northwest, while I was for a CD of the same name, produced by New Albion composer-in-residence there between 1976 and 1977. Records and released in 1996. This song is a setting of a poem by Paule Barton. Christine Abraham In 2013, I completed a duo version of the cycle I later added What Day Is It Now? and Once More the featuring mezzo-soprano and piano. That is the version Round to complete the cycle. The first of these two poems Performing a varied repertoire to great acclaim, Christine Abraham has undertaken leading rôles with recorded here. was written by the distinguished Northwest poet Robert Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Bard Festival, Opera Boston, Santa The Changing Light was commissioned by Sund (1929-2001), who was a close friend of mine for the Fe Opera, and the Spoleto Festival USA. On the concert stage, she has appeared as soloist with the San Francisco Conspirare, Craig Hella Johnson, conductor, and last 30 years of his life. The latter is a setting of a Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony, and the Dallas Symphony, as well as with Boston premièred in Austin, Texas, on January 21, 2012. The Theodore Roethke poem, who was an important teacher Baroque, Chicago’s Music of the Baroque, and the Toronto Consort in works ranging from Monteverdi (with Dame Jane original score was composed for 24 singers and an and mentor to Robert Sund. Glover conducting) to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (under the direction of Neeme Järvi). She has premièred many instrumental quintet comprising vibraphone/marimba and The word “Ish” in the title refers to the fact that the new staged works by composers such as Tan Dun, James MacMillan, Todd Machover, Peter Lieberson, Paul Moravec string quartet. While it was successfully premièred, in Northwest Indians called the coastal area of Washington and David Carlson. She is recorded on Signum Classics, Naxos American Classics, Christine Abraham and 2013, I completely revised and rescored it for vocal State “Ish River Country.” I borrowed that idea from them Arabesque Recordings, BBC Music, Pentatone, and ArkivMusic. Keisuke Nakagoshi quartet (SATB) and piano, since I’m convinced that a and Robert Sund, who titled his second book Ish River. leaner sound works better with the poetry. That final Keisuke Nakagoshi version is recorded here. Peter Lewis Keisuke Nakagoshi has performed to acclaim on prestigious concert stages across the , including the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. He enjoys collaborating with other accomplished musicians such as Lucy Shelton, Ian Swensen, Jodi Levitz, Gary Schocker, and also conductors such as Alasdair Neale, Nicole Paiement, Michael Tilson Thomas and Herbert Blomstedt. Keisuke Nakagoshi is Pianist-in- Residence at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the award-winning Opera Parallele. Nakagoshi and Swiss pianist Eva-Maria Zimmermann formed ZOFO duet in 2009, commissioning and performing music for piano four hands (www.zofoduet.com). Their first CD was Eric Dudley nominated for a GRAMMY® award for best chamber music/small ensemble in 2013. Eric Dudley leads a diverse career as a conductor, singer, pianist and composer in New York. A tenor in the acclaimed Choir of Trinity Wall Street, he has conducted the choir in concert and performed as a pianist and harpsichordist on The New York Virtuoso Singers Trinity’s chamber music series. He is a member of the GRAMMY® Award-winning vocal octet Roomful of Teeth, Ekmeles, Music Sacra and several other ensembles, and has written works for Roomful of Teeth, Quey Percussion and From left to right: Martha Cluver, Silvie Jensen, Founded in 1988 by conductor Harold Rosenbaum, the recipient of the 2014 the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. Following distinguished tenures as assistant conductor for the Cincinnati and Eric Dudley and Steven Hrycelak. Ditson Conductor’s Award. The New York Virtuoso Singers has become the Princeton Symphony Orchestras, his guest conducting engagements include the International Contemporary country’s leading exponent of contemporary choral music. Although the Ensemble, TENET, Hartford Symphony Orchestra (CT), Adelphi Chamber Orchestra (NJ), and the Melbourne and chorus performs music of all periods, its emphasis is on commissioning, Bendigo Festivals in Australia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in composition from the Eastman School of Music, and performing and recording the music of American composers. The choir has master’s and doctoral degrees in conducting from Yale. made forty commercial recordings, including releases on Sony, Bridge, Albany, CRI, and Koch International. The first choir ever invited to the Steven Hrycelak Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, in 1993, it has performed over Steven Hrycelak is equally at home as an operatic, concert, and ensemble performer. He has performed with Blue 400 world premières and have collaborated with many of New York’s Heron, ekmeles, the SEM Ensemble, New York Choral Artists, the New York Virtuoso Singers, Toby Twining Music, orchestras. Green Mountain Project, Early Music New York, Vox, TENET, Equal Voices, Meridionalis, Seraphic Fire, and the vocal jazz quintet West Side 5. He has also been a frequent soloist at Trinity Church Wall Street, as well as with Musica Sacra, 4×4 Festival of Baroque Music, New York Collegium, the Waverly Consort, the American Symphony Orchestra at the Bard Music Festival, Sacred Music in a Sacred Space, and the Collegiate Chorale, with whom he made his Martha Cluver Lincoln Center début. He has degrees from Indiana University and from Yale University, where he sang with the world- Martha Cluver is a member of the GRAMMY® Award-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth. She also performs renowned Yale Whiffenpoofs. regularly with the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Pomerium, Antioch Chamber Ensemble, and Voices of Ascension. Notable solo performances include works by John Zorn, Morton Feldman, Caleb Burhans, George Benjamin and Stephen Gosling Emmanuel Nunes. Cluver has performed and recorded many works by Steve Reich, including Music for 18 Musicians. As a chamber musician, she has collaborated with groups such as Alarm Will Sound, Signal, Dogs of Desire, Axiom, Stephen Gosling enjoys a varied career as soloist and chamber musician with a Zorn Vocal Quintet, NEXUS, So Percussion and ACME. Her discography includes performances on Naxos, Nonesuch, particular focus on the music of our time. He earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and Cantaloupe, Mode and Tsadik. Cluver attended the Eastman School of Music, where she majored in viola performance doctoral degrees at The Juilliard School, where he was awarded the Mennin Prize and received her bachelor’s degree in music in 2003. and Sony Elevated Standards Fellowship, and appeared as concerto soloist on an unprecedented four occasions. He is a member of New York New Music Ensemble, Silvie Jensen Talea Ensemble, Orchestra of the League of Composers, Perspectives Ensemble, Silvie Jensen has appeared in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at San Francisco Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Ne(x)tworks, and has appeared as guest artist with The Chamber Music Society with American Chamber Opera in Chicago as Carmen; with One World Symphony as Olga in Eugene Onegin, and has of Lincoln Center, Orpheus, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, premièred new operas and chamber works with Riverside Opera, Stonington Opera House, at the Ostrava Days eighth blackbird, American Composers Orchestra, and Chamber Orchestra of Festival, and at the Carolina Chamber Music Festival. She appeared at Carnegie Hall in 2013 as soloist in Bach’s St Europe, among many others. He frequently performs in the Lincoln Center, and at Matthew Passion with Ivan Fischer conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and in 2014 as the alto soloist in Handel’s Mostly Mozart, and June in Buffalo festivals. His work has garnered critical acclaim, Messiah with Musica Sacra. She has created and performed new works at London’s Barbican Centre with Ornette including a New York Times profile. Stephen Gosling has collaborated with Coleman, the Teatro Comunale, Ferrara with Meredith Monk, and Carnegie Hall with Philip Glass. She has appeared composers including Pierre Boulez, , Brian Ferneyhough, Oliver on numerous recordings, including on Meredith Monk’s GRAMMY®-nominated Impermanence (ECM) and Musica Knussen, Steve Reich, Poul Ruders, , and John Zorn. He has been Sacra’s Messages to Myself (MSRClassics). recorded by Albany, Bridge, Naxos, New World, Tzadik, and others. Susan Narucki Where the Heart Is Pure 2 II. Night Along the Columbia

Susan Narucki has earned international acclaim for over 1 I. Where the Heart Is Pure Night Along the Columbia, Day in Blewett Pass, two decades. She has appeared with the Cleveland Going Home Orchestra, , Netherlands Opera, There Is No Exile Where the Heart Is Pure San Francisco Symphony, MET Chamber Ensemble, on (for Pablo Casals) I the Great Performers Series at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall with conductors such as Boulez, Levine, Behind the barn, the first week of March, on a bright Far out on the dark river, Salonen, Tilson Thomas, de Leeuw and Knussen. She has morning after long rain, A fish jumps. appeared as a soloist with major contemporary music the windy cedar tree ensembles across the globe including Asko/Schoenberg, turns round and round in the sunlight. Dew is gathering on dry willow branches. London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Modern, Speculum Musicae A winter horse and ICE, with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln rubs himself on the corner of the barn. My Friends lie asleep, Center, and at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Ojai, Little pieces of cedar glide down where the ants are And I head back to our tents in the locust trees, Aspen and Holland Festivals, among many others. A calling home their old senators who A mile away. dedicated advocate of the music of our time, she has given have failed utterly. over one hundred world premières, and has enjoyed close collaborations with composers including Andriessen, Kurtág, Inland, Carter, Dusapin and Crumb. Her extensive discography includes both a GRAMMY® Award and GRAMMY® Nomination Coming home, carrying suitcases full of noise, The river has left a still pond. for Best Classical Vocal Performance; her recording, The Light that Is Felt: Songs of Charles Ives (New World) with they pass through small American towns. A few snipe call back and forth in the night. pianist Donald Berman, received international acclaim and was selected as Editor’s Choice of BBC Music Magazine. Their small tracks in the mud On the barn wall, fill up with moonlit water. Colin McAllister rusted nails bleed; and in fences, in hinges, in boards. The horse (I think of Casals in exile!) plays I think of A committed performer of contemporary music, Colin McAllister has given the US a suite unaccompanied in the silver cedar boards. Anonymous Chinese poets, old poems on silk, première of works by leading European figures of the avant-garde including Franco Inside the barn, The pleasure of being alone, Donatoni, Brian Ferneyhough, Vinko Globokar, Helmut Lachenmann and Rolf the stranded haywagon shudders. Walking Riehm. He is the guitarist and conductor for the ensemble NOISE, and a co-founder Between its floorboards Through a herd of cows asleep in scant alfalfa, of the SoundON Festival of Modern Music, held each January in La Jolla, seeds the last crop of summer. California. McAllister has recorded for the Innova, Albany, Old King Cole, Vienna trickle to the earth. Modern Masters, Carrier and Tzadik record labels. As a guest artist, he has II appeared with the San Diego Opera, San Diego Symphony, Colorado Symphony A dry dusty odor mingles with festering dampness, and the La Jolla Symphony. He currently serves as the Coordinator of the Music and a hand — Over my head, the moon is half in the sky, Program and Lecturer in Music and Humanities at the University of Colorado, blue ridges and rivers coming and going through it — Half in the locust branches. Colorado Springs. rests on the white sheet of the windows. Some people are still awake, talking softly. Our small fire falls to a circle of quite coals. My grandmother comes to swing open wide the huge Falling asleep, double doors, I trace the long drive home tomorrow; south — doors like drifting continents, then west, and a wedge of healing sunlight across the mountains. slips into the barn before her. And someone has mentioned Seattle. Garbage cans The sound of geese in the distance 5 II. Big Sur Light 3. Spill over onto the sidewalk at Tai Tung, is wonderful: How lovely the earth and the fat cook limps in our minds 1. and all the creatures in it back through the screen door, smiling. we rise up What is that sound that fills the air Shining in eternity and move on. distantly- in dearth and death of night Down on the docks Is that a singing still as the sun They’re unloading a boatful of black-eyed halibut. A fisherman a far singing the sun All poems © 1983 Robert Sund (1929-2001). under the hill shakes out its shining hair Seeing the moon on the wet deck From Ish River, published by North Point Press, a descant of streaming light Remembers Norway. San Francisco. Reproduced with permission. a threnody III arising 4. The Changing Light echoing away- The birds slept in this morning A long the Columbia, the happiness of the animals on earth Not a word out of them three more hours and I’m home. 4 I. The Changing Light forefeet pawing or prancing until sun up But first or lying still in thickets Usually they’re out there I close the car door The changing light of San Francisco And couples dancing just before light And walk in a field of mountain grass. is none of your East Coast light to flute and small drum tuning up none of your the happiness of animals on earth- chirring away to themselves I lie down, drink pearly light of Paris or their unhappiness- about the nature of light clear water, dream of old rituals The light of San Francisco their loneliness perhaps for which they’re always yearning and what it feels to be pure of heart. is a sea light (for are the cries of birds or about the earth an island light cries of despair?) and why it never stops When I get back home to the Ish River country, And the light of fog Ah but the earth is still turning- I’ll open the barn door blanketing the hills so passing fair Big questions And see the hides of white horses drifting in at night in the heart of all days for birds to settle shedding rain. through the Golden Gate and tell us to lie on the city at dawn 2. in single syllables And then the halcyon late mornings The trees in their eternal silence before breakfast 3 III. Spring Poem in the Skagit Valley after the fog burns off follow the dawn and the sun paints white houses out of the night 5. The birds are going the other way now, with the sea light of Greece And all is not lost Thrushes in the underbrush with sharp clean shadows passing houses as they go. when a tree can still making the town look like in first light Shy birds it had just been painted And geese fly spread its autumn branches never let themselves be seen back But the wind comes up at four o’clock sweeping the hills and let go its ochre leaves Modesty and forth in pure delight in their little birdcalls across the valley, And then the veil of light of early evening getting ready. And then another scrim when the new night fog And always the same notes floats in (and the same message?) And in that vale of light over and over: the city drifts Hello again! hello again! hello? anchorless upon the ocean 6. 8. 7 III. Dictionaries of Light Five Love Motets Clouds sailing over- The moon Ah there’s Magritte’s lips after much reflection says The sun the sun faded out in the rosy dawn! Sun is God comes round the corner 8 I. Dreaming like a shining knight of old No time to kiss * galloping over the landscape When I seem to be dreaming, as the wind blows them away The sky full of leaves & pollen on the horses of morning I see your face, in the high wind And shaking his lance over us it’s lovely shape, rising towards me. And the earth turns away sows trees! in trance of night Your smiling eyes and turns away awakens us to speak or sing open wide, * to banish death and darkness and your lips – And each steed a word shimmering softness. 6 7. The tree believes each verb a stallion The moon stayed full last month- its panoply of leaves reared up against all ignorance I take your thigh Every night looking in my window will save it from acid rain Untamed rampant radicals and hold you by me. the moon was still full (Think again) in dictionaries of light Indelible breeze, And the night itself blows through your hair, seemed endless * cooling the sun. but went on All poems © 2001 Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919). like the moon Will the rains ever end? From How To Paint Sunlight, published by And magical leaves - fall down sailing through its dark seas Basho claps together New Directions, New York. Reproduced with permission. to the earth, a lighted ship at sea His muddy clogs caressing our souls. Once in a while a plane winged by Branches reach out - to hug us soundless * and you lean back - in my arms. flashing its human signal in the night of the sky Will the world ever end? Lovingly, I rock you and kiss you, And the moon sailed on Dawn and the sun while floating in cloud forms. listing a bit to starboard runs its fingers Looking down - on our future homestead, looking almost as if over the land landing on ground - it might capsize building our dream home, solid. overloaded as it always was * with the reflected imagined love Phallus in vulva 9 II. In Evergreen Forest of the world And a divine spasm And then at the final end of night Shakes the universe In evergreen forest the sea turned white we hike for hours as the too-full moon and carry our load - of thoughts, still beat seaward enhancing futures through its white night made of this world too loaded to land anywhere and our life beyond. with its precious perishable cargo We stretch and moan, ! IV. The Rhythm of Your Soul lifting and bracing. Your voice resonates $ II. Going Out To Meet The Moon Whales I sing for your eyes, your nose, and is pure We make our way, your lips, your cheeks. with clean vibrations It was time: climbing to tree tops, Desperate, I yearn for your presence and its delights high in the round fruit trees then flying down the valleys – we go. in my world. bring home the sun we saw them passing Careful – we protect our bright histories caressing us under the moon. and years beyond us, I crave you. with its vibrant rays and fight - to protect life’s gems, Searching and prodding, piercing through – our fullness. The manta rays lining up beauty for us all. I hunt for - the rhythm of your soul. to slowly flap their wings. Like early morning breeze, Then we floated out We watch eagles as they fly – Golden rapture. I hunger for your laughter – your joy. our light shines in on the manta waves. They flap their wings The essence of your being across your gleaming frame. There was no time and cruise below. captures my heart strings. Kissing – we move, we were happier. Cougars cry for their mates – echoing here. Like a player on a crimson harp, enveloping our love – today. I’m in your spell now, Whales, look We let our minds dancing to your grace. I have not died too young: float on the horizon All poems © 2014 Peter Scott Lewis. and dream back to I want to ride our childhood. the sound waves Three Songs From Ish River I floated out Wrestling and laughing, on the boat of your body. in a wooden boat we embrace and kiss, Our magic ears I was born in fifty years ago, loving in - the forest. listen to dew drops # I. What day is it now? when the moon whales were swimming here. blow on our face and hands as we sail. What day is it now? 0 III. Of the Ocean Like a star on a moonlit river, my life © Paulé Bartón (1916-74), Into a cave, graced by an element simple as water, translated by Howard A. Norman. There, with the moon laying and resting, I move with love and care lighting up the open sky, we breath together, where old meaning grow full, the stars stay pure, synchronized – we make music. and others lose their hold. % III. Once More, The Round cleaning out our minds. Then taking turns, Slowly I release myself. separate - we make our voices sing, again. From corridors of used and vacant buildings, What’s greater, Pebble or Pond? We look up higher I release myself. What can be known? The Unknown. to let our heads go – in bliss. The Jailor, My true self runs toward a Hill And the air @ V. Enveloping Our Love shuffling his feet and jingling some keys, More! O More! visible. blankets us – in freshness. walks farther and farther away, The wind blows – over us I love the way then disappears. Now I adore my life chopping up the waves. you hold your head – up high As though we had made an agreement, With the Bird, the abiding Leaf, And rock forms and stretch your arms, I turn and walk away. With the Fish, the questing Snail, tell us why – our life blooms dancing to my heart beat, I’ve wanted to do this all my life! And the Eye altering All; in ravishing beauty, leaping freely. And I dance with William Blake swimmingly, forever: For love, for Love’s sake; broken sands, dazzling swirls You are my sun and earth © 1969 Robert Sund. From Bunch Grass, of the ocean. my rotations, moving near. originally published by the University of Washington And everything comes to One, Travelling, we sing our songs. Press, Seattle and London. As we dance on, dance on, dance on. We row our boat, together. You rise up Side by side, and fly into the air we stay in focus – and float back – to me. © 1962 Theodore Roethke (1908-63). beaming and leaning. Your hips – like the hills From The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, of our honeymoon – surrender. published by Doubleday. We move forward – delighted. Then we float through – our haven. Pacing as we row, All poems reproduced with permission. we skim over the water. Galloping waves, incessant breeze, we pick up speed and fly away. Peter Scott LEWIS (b. 1953) 1-3 Where the Heart Is Pure (Duo Version) (1993/2013) 15:57 AMERICAN CLASSICS 4-7 The Changing Light (2013) 15:59 Peter Scott Lewis is based in San 8-@ Five Love Motets (2014) 12:12 Francisco, and his deeply expressive #-% Three Songs From Ish River music is much in demand across the (1976-78) 6:21 world. Performed here by renowned artists, The Four Cycles collects his Christine Abraham, Mezzo-soprano 1-3 complete vocal music to date. Where 1 3 Keisuke Nakagoshi, Piano - the Heart Is Pure depicts the natural The New York Virtuoso Singers Quartet 4-@ world around the Skagit River in Peter Scott Lewis, Conductor 4-@ Washington State where the poet Stephen Gosling, Piano 4-7 Robert Sund, a close friend of the composer, made his home. Themes of Susan Narucki, Soprano #-% light and love are embraced by the rich Colin McAllister, Guitar #-% sonorities of a vocal quartet, while the A detailed track list and full recording details Three Songs From Ish River examine can be found inside the booklet. the history of the Pacific Northwest. Producer: Peter Lewis Engineers: Adam Munoz (tracks 1-3), Ryan Streber (tracks 4-12), Dan Abernathy (tracks 13-15) www.naxos.com Editor: Robert Shumaker Publishers: Theodore Presser (tracks 1-3, 13-15); Lapis Island Press (tracks 4-12) Playing Booklet notes: Peter Lewis Time: Cover photo: Light at Big Sur by Derek Neumann 50:29 (iStockphoto.com)