Threshold Of Night
Classical
| Aug 2008
Reviews
Don Farrell
Reviewed 2008-11-16
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
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
Recent airplay
Had I Not Seen The Sun
Clean Copper Radio — Oct 13, 2015
The Ecstasies Above I-III
Hand Wash in Coleslaw — Jan 14, 2009
Threshold Of Night
Music Casserole — Jan 01, 2009
Tal Vez Teneoms Tiempo
Music Casserole — Dec 29, 2008
Care Charminge Sleepe
Orangeasm — Nov 19, 2008
Charting
2008-11-16 — 2009-01-18
Classical/Experimental
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Jan 18 | 1 |
| Jan 4 | 2 |
| Nov 23 | 1 |
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 |