Leandra Ramm, Michael Delfin – Watching Glass, I Hear You (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:40 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Ablaze Records, Pty Ltd
The world premiere recording of composer, producer, and vocalist Lisa Bielawa’s song cycle Centuries in the Hours, which illuminates the lives of American women by setting selections from women’s diaries spanning three centuries, will be released on a new album from mezzo-soprano Leandra Ramm titled Watching glass, I hear you (Ablaze Records). The recording will be released on February 28, 2025, shortly before International Women’s Day on March 8. The album also includes song cycles by composers Cyril Deaconoff, Daron Hagen, Douglas Knehans, and David T. Little. All of the works except for Deaconoff’s songs are premiere recordings.Lisa Bielawa is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and a Rome Prize winner in Musical Composition, who takes inspiration for her work from literary sources and close artistic collaborations. She is the recipient of the 2017 Music Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters and a 2020 OPERA America Grant for Female Composers. She was named a William Randolph Hearst Visiting Artist Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society for 2018 and was Artist-in-Residence at Kaufman Music Center in New York for the 2020-2021 season. In 1997, she co-founded the MATA Festival.
Tracklist:
1-01. Leandra Ramm – Centuries in the Hours: No. 1, Emily (04:15)
1-02. Leandra Ramm – Centuries in the Hours: No. 2, Betsey (04:08)
1-03. Leandra Ramm – Centuries in the Hours: No. 3, Angeles (03:38)
1-04. Leandra Ramm – Centuries in the Hours: No. 4, Sallie (03:29)
1-05. Leandra Ramm – Centuries in the Hours: No. 5, Sarah (04:28)
1-06. Leandra Ramm – Watching Glass, I Hear You: No. 1, Hear (02:37)
1-07. Leandra Ramm – Watching Glass, I Hear You: No. 2, See (02:28)
1-08. Leandra Ramm – Watching Glass, I Hear You: No. 3, Touch (02:37)
1-09. Leandra Ramm – Watching Glass, I Hear You: No. 4, Feel (02:45)
1-10. Leandra Ramm – Eleven Fragments for the Book of Dreams: No. 1, Wait for Sleep (00:55)
1-11. Leandra Ramm – Eleven Fragments for the Book of Dreams: No. 2, And There is Always a Possibility (01:00)
1-12. Leandra Ramm – Eleven Fragments for the Book of Dreams: No. 3, During the Most Recent Earthquake (01:14)
1-13. Leandra Ramm – Eleven Fragments for the Book of Dreams: No. 4, Perhaps Your Hands (00:45)
1-14. Leandra Ramm – Eleven Fragments for the Book of Dreams: No. 5, But What Will You Remember? (01:13)
1-15. Leandra Ramm – Eleven Fragments for the Book of Dreams: No. 6, Name Until You Are No Longer Sure of the Spelling (00:34)
1-16. Leandra Ramm – Eleven Fragments for the Book of Dreams: No. 7, What Happened to the Stone? (00:40)
1-17. Leandra Ramm – Eleven Fragments for the Book of Dreams: No. 8, Your Long Journey Through the Underworld? (00:37)
1-18. Leandra Ramm – Eleven Fragments for the Book of Dreams: No. 9, These New Eyes Are Meant for Looking (00:39)
1-19. Leandra Ramm – Eleven Fragments for the Book of Dreams: No. 10, You Will Be Able to Find (00:56)
1-20. Leandra Ramm – Eleven Fragments for the Book of Dreams: No. 11, I Shall Possess My Body Forever (00:31)
1-21. Leandra Ramm – Transformations: No. 1, Dance of Love (01:42)
1-22. Leandra Ramm – Transformations: No. 2, Peace (02:38)
1-23. Leandra Ramm – Transformations: No. 3, Don’t Mess With Me (00:53)
1-24. Leandra Ramm – Transformations: No. 4, Sweet Sorrow (04:26)
1-25. Leandra Ramm – Transformations: No. 5, Dance of Love (01:50)
1-26. Leandra Ramm – Four Songs for Mezzo-soprano and Piano: No. 1, Atem der Statuen (03:27)
1-27. Leandra Ramm – Four Songs for Mezzo-soprano and Piano: No. 2, To a Street Person (02:59)
1-28. Leandra Ramm – Four Songs for Mezzo-soprano and Piano: No. 3, La Flor de la Canela (04:25)
1-29. Leandra Ramm – Four Songs for Mezzo-soprano and Piano: No. 4, The Nightingale (02:35)