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SHENG, B.: Song of Majnun (The) (Complete)

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Label: Delos

Genre: Interview; Opera

Period: 20th Century; Contemporary

Catalogue No: DE3211

Barcode: 013491321127

Release Date: 01/1997

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SHENG, B.: Song of Majnun (The) (Complete)

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Artist details

Sheng, Bright
Porter, Andrew J. - Lyricist

The Song of Majnun

Very, Raymond (tenor)
Martinez, Ana Maria (soprano)
Grove, Jill (mezzo-soprano)
Youngblood, Grant (baritone)
Houston Grand Opera Chorus (Choir)
Houston Grand Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Holmquist, Ward (Conductor)
Petro, Mary (soprano)
Lattimore, Jonita (soprano)
Blackwell, Patrick (bass-baritone)
Chioldi, Michael (baritone)

1

Scene 1: Tiger in the pinewood, run through the pinewood (Boys, Girls, Majnun, Layla, Layla's Mother and Father)

07:57

Very, Raymond (tenor)
Martinez, Ana Maria (soprano)
Grove, Jill (mezzo-soprano)
Youngblood, Grant (baritone)
Houston Grand Opera Chorus (Choir)
Houston Grand Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Holmquist, Ward (Conductor)

2

Scene 2: Here! What? Have you heard, have you heard? (First Gossip, Second Gossip, Majnun)

06:18

Very, Raymond (tenor)
Petro, Mary (soprano)
Lattimore, Jonita (soprano)
Houston Grand Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Holmquist, Ward (Conductor)

3

Scene 3: Light of my soul, where are you? (Ensemble, Layla)

05:46

Martinez, Ana Maria (soprano)
Houston Grand Opera Chorus (Choir)
Houston Grand Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Holmquist, Ward (Conductor)

4

Scene 4: Old man, who are you? (Majnun, Majnun's Father)

08:38

Very, Raymond (tenor)
Blackwell, Patrick (bass-baritone)
Houston Grand Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Holmquist, Ward (Conductor)

5

Scene 5: Has he heard, has he heard? (First Gossip, Second Gossip, Ensemble, Layla's Mother and Father, IBN Salam)

04:31

Very, Raymond (tenor)
Martinez, Ana Maria (soprano)
Grove, Jill (mezzo-soprano)
Youngblood, Grant (baritone)
Petro, Mary (soprano)
Lattimore, Jonita (soprano)
Blackwell, Patrick (bass-baritone)
Chioldi, Michael (baritone)
Houston Grand Opera Chorus (Choir)
Houston Grand Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Holmquist, Ward (Conductor)

6

Scene 6: This letter comes from a grieving woman to a man of grief (Layla, Majnun)

06:43

Very, Raymond (tenor)
Martinez, Ana Maria (soprano)
Houston Grand Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Holmquist, Ward (Conductor)

7

Scene 7: Layla, my child, come inside (Layla's Mother, Layla)

05:43

Martinez, Ana Maria (soprano)
Grove, Jill (mezzo-soprano)
Houston Grand Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Holmquist, Ward (Conductor)

8

Interlude: Majnun's Dream

02:01

Houston Grand Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Holmquist, Ward (Conductor)

9

Scene 8: Layla, we mourn you (Ensemble, IBN Salam, Layla Mother and Father, First Gossip, Second Gossip, Majnun)

08:56

Very, Raymond (tenor)
Martinez, Ana Maria (soprano)
Grove, Jill (mezzo-soprano)
Youngblood, Grant (baritone)
Petro, Mary (soprano)
Lattimore, Jonita (soprano)
Blackwell, Patrick (bass-baritone)
Chioldi, Michael (baritone)
Houston Grand Opera Chorus (Choir)
Houston Grand Opera Orchestra (Orchestra)
Holmquist, Ward (Conductor)

Sheng, Bright
Porter, Andrew J.

Composer Bright Sheng and Librettist Andrew Porter in Coversation with Tom Sudholt, host of Saturday Afternoon at the Opera

Sheng, Bright (narrator)
Porter, Andrew (narrator)

10

Composer Bright Sheng and Librettist Andrew Porter in Coversation with Tom Sudholt, host of Saturday Afternoon at the Opera

17:07

Sheng, Bright (narrator)
Porter, Andrew (narrator)

Total Playing Time: 01:13:40

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