Knoxville: Summer of 1915
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News & Reviews
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Caroline Shaw, Sō Percussion, Dawn Upshaw, Gilbert Kalish Share Story Behind New Album, 'Narrow Sea'
Composer Caroline Shaw's new album, Narrow Sea, featuring Sō Percussion, Dawn Upshaw, and Gilbert Kalish's performance of the title piece—five parts, each a new setting of a text from The Sacred Harp, the 19th-century collection of shape-note hymns—is due next Friday, January 22, on Nonesuch. Here, the artists talk with writer Matthew Guerrieri about the album, which also includes Sō Percussion's performance of Shaw's Taxidermy. Find out why she tells Guerrieri: "I was telling a friend, half-jokingly, that, in a lot of my music, I’m trying to figure out a way to talk about death and mortality, or think about it."
Nonesuch Records releases its second album from Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Caroline Shaw, Narrow Sea, on January 22, 2021. The title piece was written for Sō Percussion, Dawn Upshaw, and Gilbert Kalish, who perform it on this recording: five parts, each a new setting of a text from The Sacred Harp nineteenth century collection of shape-note hymns. Also on the album is Sō Percussion's performance of Shaw's Taxidermy, which she wrote for the ensemble. A video for Part 2 of Narrow Sea can be seen here.
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About This Album
1989 Grammy Award Winner
This Nonesuch debut, featuring Samuel Barber's title piece, garnered Upshaw a Grammy for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. "If you want just one recording of Knoxville," says Gramophone, "it should be Upshaw's. In no other version is the intimacy of Barber's music so poignantly conveyed." The Washington Post called Knoxville “dreamily evocative” and declared Upshaw “one of the most impressive young singers on the American scene.”
Credits
MUSICIANS
Dawn Upshaw, sopranoOrchestra of St. Luke's
David Zinman, conductorPRODUCTION CREDITS
Recorded August 1988 at Manhattan Center Studios, New York City
Engineer: John Newton
Assistant engineer: Henk Kooistra
Production coordinator: Jennifer KeatsFront cover photograph: Joel Meyerowitz
Back cover photograph: Joyce RavidExecutive Producer: Robert Hurwitz
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This Nonesuch debut, featuring Samuel Barber's title piece, garnered Dawn Upshaw a Grammy for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. "If you want just one recording of Knoxville," says Gramophone, "it should be Upshaw's. In no other version is the intimacy of Barber's music so poignantly conveyed."
1989 Grammy Award Winner
This Nonesuch debut, featuring Samuel Barber's title piece, garnered Upshaw a Grammy for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance. "If you want just one recording of Knoxville," says Gramophone, "it should be Upshaw's. In no other version is the intimacy of Barber's music so poignantly conveyed." The Washington Post called Knoxville “dreamily evocative” and declared Upshaw “one of the most impressive young singers on the American scene.”
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Recorded August 1988 at Manhattan Center Studios, New York City
Engineer: John Newton
Assistant engineer: Henk Kooistra
Production coordinator: Jennifer Keats
Front cover photograph: Joel Meyerowitz
Back cover photograph: Joyce Ravid
Executive Producer: Robert Hurwitz

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MUSICIANS
Dawn Upshaw, soprano
Orchestra of St. Luke's
David Zinman, conductor