Symphony No.4, "To Touch the Sky" and "If I Were a Swan"

October 9, 2013

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts (b. 1972) is known for his distinctive and richly colored musical voice. Making their label début, Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra perform Puts' Symphony No. 4 ("From Mission San Juan"), inspired by Native American melodies.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts (b. 1972) is known for his distinctive and richly colored musical voice. Making their label début, Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra perform Puts' Symphony No. 4 ("From Mission San Juan"), inspired by Native American melodies. Opening this program of first recordings, Craig Hella Johnson leads Conspirare in two choral settings of texts by women poets: To Touch the Sky" and If I Were a Swan.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

Marin Alsop, Conductor

Conspirare - Choral ensemble

Craig Hella Johnson, Conductor

1. If I Were a Swan

2. I. Annunciation (Magnificat) to Touch the Sky -Nine Songs for Unaccompanied Chorus on Texts By Women

3. II. Unbreakable

4. III. the Fruit of Silence

5. IV. Falling Snow

6. V. at Castle Wood

7. VI. Epitaph

8. VII. Who Has Seen the Wind?

9. VIII. with My Two Arms

10. IX. Most Noble Evergreen

11. I. Prelude: Mission San Juan Bautista, Ca. 1800 (Symphony No. 4 from Mission San Juan)

12. II. Arriquetpon

13. III. Interlude

14. IV. Healing Song

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