Threshold Of Night

O'regan, Tarik
Harmonia Mundi Usa
Classical | Aug 2008

Reviews

Don Farrell
Reviewed 2008-11-16
Choir and strings, Absolutely beautiful voices.
on harmonia mundi records
1: 1:52 solo soprano & tenor voices, referencing Emily Dickinson's poetry settings.
2: 5:35 Full chorus, solo octet & string quartet, reference to Edgar Allan Poe's poetry. Beautiful lush soaring voices with bowed strings. tracks #2, 3 & 4 should be played together
3: 5:40 " " " " " " "
4: 6:12 " " " " " " "
5: 6:19 setting Kathleen Raine's "Three Poems of Incarnation" Beautiful lush soaring voices with bowed strings. highlights the yearning that all societies have in their time of need
6: 7:49 multiple parts move in the same rhythm, Beautiful lush soaring voices, sets "Maybe we have time" by Pablo Neruda
7: 6:13 Beautiful lush soaring voices and strings. Complex interpertation of John Fletcher's 1614 stage work "Valentinian III"
8: 4:28 tracks #8, 9 & 10 should be played together, set to the writings of William Penn, Muhammad Rajab Al-bayoumi, William Blake, Psalm 133, Milton, Hardy and others, again Beautiful lush soaring voices with bowed strings.
9: 7:53 " " " " " " "
10: 5:14 " " " " " " "
11: 2:13 solo soprano & tenor voices, referencing Emily Dickinson's poetry settings.
D  Farrell   11/2008

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Charting

2008-11-16 — 2009-01-18 Classical/Experimental
Week EndingAirplays
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Track listing

1. Had I Not Seen The Sun
2. The Ecstasies Above I
3. The Ecstasies Above Ii
4. The Ecstasies Above Iii
5. Threshold Of Night
6. Tal Vez Teneoms Tiempo
7. Care Charminge Sleepe
8. Triptych: Threnody
9. Triptych: As We Remember Them
10. Triptych: From Heaven Distilled A Clemency
11. I Had No Time To Hate