Hugh Aitken: Cantatas 1, 3, 4 & 6; Piano Fantasy

Hugh Aitken (Composer), Jan Opalach (Performer), Charles Bressler (Performer), Jean Hakes (Performer), Gary Kirkpatrick (Performer), Melvin Kaplan (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Jan Opalach, Charles Bressler, Jean Hakes, Gary Kirkpatrick, Melvin Kaplan
• Composer: Hugh Aitken
• Audio CD (February 17, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Composers Recordings
• ASIN: B000005TZE
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,069,901 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Cantata No. 1 on Elizabethan Texts: Behold! O Man

2. Cantata No. 1 on Elizabethan Texts: Pluck the fruit and taste the pleasure

3. Cantata No. 1 on Elizabethan Texts: What if a day

4. Cantata No. 1 on Elizabethan Texts: Drink today and drown all sorrow

5. Cantata No. 1 on Elizabethan Texts: Fair is the Rose

6. Cantata No. 1 on Elizabethan Texts: Hey nonny no!

7. Cantata No. 3 'From This White Island': For Death Will Come Still Too Soon

8. Cantata No. 3 'From This White Island': An Island

9. Cantata No. 3 'From This White Island': There

10. Cantata No. 3 'From This White Island': Now

11. Cantata No. 3 'From This White Island': On This Greek Island

12. Cantata No. 3 'From This White Island': Atlantic Coast, Afterward

13. Cantata No. 4: Desnuda está la iterra (Naked is the Earth)

14. Cantata No. 4: Mi Bufón (My Clown)

15. Cantata No. 4: ¡O tarde luminosa! (O luminous afternoon!)

16. Cantata No. 4: Pagasos, lindos pegasos (Pegasos)

17. Cantata No. 4: El sol es un globo de luego (The sun is a globe of fire)

18. Cantata No. 4: Campo (Field)

19. Fantasies for piano: Unspecified (1)

20. Cantata No. 6 'Remembering'

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4.0 out of 5 stars Refreshingly Innovative, November 27, 1999

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What a relief. An interesting modern piece of music is about as rare these days as a working modem. Intriguing to listen to, Aitken's work is as superlative as his writing (and teaching). Every modern composer should familiarize himself with this man.