The three song cycles on this release of music by American composer Jake Heggie all date from the 1990s, before his breakthrough with the opera Dead Man Walking in 2000. They're not commonly performed, and Eve-Song (1996), a modern reflection on the biblical Eve, is recorded in full here for the first time. It's possible to regard these pieces as steps in building the musical language that has made Heggie so successful, and as such they should be of great interest to the composer's fans. Aspects of this language include a ...
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The three song cycles on this release of music by American composer Jake Heggie all date from the 1990s, before his breakthrough with the opera Dead Man Walking in 2000. They're not commonly performed, and Eve-Song (1996), a modern reflection on the biblical Eve, is recorded in full here for the first time. It's possible to regard these pieces as steps in building the musical language that has made Heggie so successful, and as such they should be of great interest to the composer's fans. Aspects of this language include a convincing incorporation of popular musical elements into a basic art-song framework, on display in Natural Selection (1997). This cycle sets poems by San Francisco writer Gini Savage, depicting a young woman's social and sexual awakening. Traces of jazz and tango appear in the music, but it does not fall into either of those genres. Heggie's accomplishment has been to create a language flexible enough to reflect the elevated concerns of concert music but conversant enough with...
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