Measha Brueggergosman-Lee, Elliot Madore, Steven Philcox, Jonelle Sills – Known to Dreamers: Black Voices in Canadian Art Song (2024) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Measha Brueggergosman-Lee, Elliot Madore, Steven Philcox, Jonelle Sills – Known to Dreamers: Black Voices in Canadian Art Song (2024)
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Exploring the life of Jesus Christ through inner dialogue, the cycle was written for and premiered by contralto Maureen Forrester in 1966 in Montreal, and has since been performed and recorded by an array of opera luminaries including Jessye Norman, Judith Forst, and Wallis Giunta. Also featured on Known To Dreamers are two works by Caribbean-Canadian, Manitoba-based composer-conductor Larry Strachan, “Moths” by James Rolfe, with text by writer André Alexis (whence the album title originates); and The Colour of Joy by composer- pianist-educator Maria Thompson Corley. “It’s a very vulnerable platform,” says Wiliford of art song, “there’s a vulnerability to doing storytelling in song.” The soloists on the album—soprano Measha Brueggergosman-Lee, baritone Elliot Madore, soprano Jonelle Sills—were all keen to engage with this vulnerability, and to recalibrate for a much more intimate if no less powerful form of sung vocal expression, one specific to the idiom of art song itself.

Tracklist:

1-01. Measha Brueggergosman-Lee – The Confession Stone “Songs of Mary”: No. 1, Oh My Boy, Jesus, My First and Only Son (02:21)
1-02. Measha Brueggergosman-Lee – The Confession Stone “Songs of Mary”: No. 2, Don’t Pay Attention to the Old Men in the Temple (00:54)
1-03. Measha Brueggergosman-Lee – The Confession Stone “Songs of Mary”: No. 3, Jesus, Did You Know That Lazarus Is Back (01:45)
1-04. Measha Brueggergosman-Lee – The Confession Stone “Songs of Mary”: No. 4, There’s a Supper in Jerusalem Tonight (01:53)
1-05. Measha Brueggergosman-Lee – The Confession Stone “Songs of Mary”: No. 5, Cold and Icy in My Bed (03:22)
1-06. Measha Brueggergosman-Lee – The Confession Stone “Songs of Mary”: No. 6, Bring Me Those Needles, Martha (01:58)
1-07. Measha Brueggergosman-Lee – The Confession Stone “Songs of Mary”: No. 7, Everything Is Black, Air, Water, Sun, Moon, All Light, Dirt Is Black (05:28)
1-08. Measha Brueggergosman-Lee – The Confession Stone “Songs of Mary”: No. 8, Oh My Boy, Jesus, My First and Only Son (02:34)
1-09. Elliot Madore – A Broken Appointment (03:45)
1-10. Elliot Madore – Now Blue October (04:14)
1-11. Jonelle Sills – The Colour of Joy: No. 1, When the World Was Green (07:49)
1-12. Jonelle Sills – The Colour of Joy: No. 2, Transition (01:44)
1-13. Jonelle Sills – The Colour of Joy: No. 3, Elias 511 (05:42)
1-14. Jonelle Sills – The Colour of Joy: No. 4, Ode to Our Joy (06:55)
1-15. Elliot Madore – Moths: No. 1, Night Is a River (02:21)
1-16. Elliot Madore – Moths: No. 2, The River of Dreams (00:55)
1-17. Elliot Madore – Moths: No. 3, Dreams Are a Cloth (01:31)
1-18. Elliot Madore – Moths: No. 4, The Cloth Is Eaten by Moths (02:27)
1-19. Elliot Madore – Moths: No. 5, Moths Give Off Light (01:47)
1-20. Elliot Madore – Moths: No. 6, Light Is a River (03:26)

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