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Beauty Come Dancing

Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra - Netherlands Radio Choir

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AN ODE TO LOVE AND DANCE: Discover poetry in motion with Beauty Come Dancing, composer Gordon Getty’s new album of choral works. Love and dance permeate this collection of new music, paying homage to the romantic and elegant traditions abounding in the latter half of the 19th century. Here, Getty finds inspiration in the poetry of John Keats, Lord Byron, John Masefield, Sara Teasdale, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and Ernest Christopher Dowson. These settings sit alongside choral treatments of three of Getty’s original poems, plus his arrangement of traditional favorite “Shenandoah.”

Rising-star conductor James Gaffigan leads the Netherlands Radio Choir and Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in PENTATONE’s beautiful recording.

Tracklist

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1.
The Old Man in the Night
16:16
2.
The Old Man in the Morning
03:00
3.
Ballet Russe
02:54
4.
Shenandoah
03:27
5.
There was a Naughty Boy
03:55
6.
Those Who Love the Most
03:10
7.
Beauty Come Dancing
02:54
8.
For a Dead Lady
03:31
9.
The Destruction of Sennacherib
03:37
10.
Cynara
05:32
11.
La Belle Dame sans Merci
08:50

Total time: 00:57:06

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PTC5186621

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Executive Producers

Lisa Delan, Job Maarse, Bruce Munson

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Conductors

Original Recording Format

Producer

Job Maarse

Recording Engineer

Jean-Marie Geijsen & Karel Bruggeman

Recording location

MCO 5, Hilversum, The Netherlands – June & October 2017

Recording Type & Bit Rate

DSD 64

Release DateAugust 10, 2018

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