Schumann: Duets
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Track Listing
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11:27
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103:58
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112:14
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123:54
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132:18
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142:22
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151:03
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162:59
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22:08
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33:04
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42:14
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56:05
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63:13
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71:50
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84:25
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91:32
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
The New York Times counts this album among its favorite Schumann recordings, capturing as it does Jan DeGaetani’s “expressive artistry” as she performs these “unclaimed jewels” by one of the foremost composers of Lieder; with baritone Leslie Guinn, accompanied by Gilbert Kalish.
Credits
MUSICIANS
Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano
Leslie Guinn, baritone
Gilbert Kalish, pianoPRODUCTION CREDITS
Recorded May 1978, Rutgers Presbyterian Church, New York
Engineering & musical supervision: Marc J. Aubort, Joanna Nickrenz
Mastered by Robert C. Ludwig
Coordinator: Teresa Sterne
Cover art: Caspar David Friedrich, Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon (1824), reproduced courtesy of the Nationalgalerie, West Berlin
Design: James Victore
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The New York Times counts this album among its favorite Schumann recordings, capturing as it does Jan DeGaetani’s “expressive artistry” as she performs these “unclaimed jewels” by one of the foremost composers of Lieder; with baritone Leslie Guinn, accompanied by Gilbert Kalish.
The New York Times counts this album among its favorite Schumann recordings, capturing as it does Jan DeGaetani’s “expressive artistry” as she performs these “unclaimed jewels” by one of the foremost composers of Lieder; with baritone Leslie Guinn, accompanied by Gilbert Kalish.
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Recorded May 1978, Rutgers Presbyterian Church, New York
Engineering & musical supervision: Marc J. Aubort, Joanna Nickrenz
Mastered by Robert C. Ludwig
Coordinator: Teresa Sterne
Cover art: Caspar David Friedrich, Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon (1824), reproduced courtesy of the Nationalgalerie, West Berlin
Design: James Victore

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MUSICIANS
Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano
Leslie Guinn, baritone
Gilbert Kalish, piano