℗ 2016 Winter and Winter
| Released | December 2, 2016 |
| Duration | 32m 39s |
| Record Label | Winter and Winter |
| Catalogue No. | 910232-2 |
| Genre | Classical (Vocal) |
Hans Abrahamsen: Let Me Tell You
Barbara Hannigan, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Andris Nelsons
Available in 48 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC audio formats
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Let Me Tell You, Pt. 1
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1.1
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Let me tell you how it was
Hans Abrahamsen; Barbara Hannigan; Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Andris Nelsons |
3:50 | |||
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1.2
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O but memory is not one but many
Hans Abrahamsen; Barbara Hannigan; Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Andris Nelsons |
2:50 | |||
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1.3
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There was a time, I remember
Hans Abrahamsen; Barbara Hannigan; Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Andris Nelsons |
5:58 | |||
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Let Me Tell You, Pt. 2
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1.4
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Let me tell you how it is
Hans Abrahamsen; Barbara Hannigan; Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Andris Nelsons |
2:04 | |||
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1.5
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Now I do not mind
Hans Abrahamsen; Barbara Hannigan; Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Andris Nelsons |
6:13 | |||
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Let Me Tell You, Pt. 3
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1.6
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I know you are there
Hans Abrahamsen; Barbara Hannigan; Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Andris Nelsons |
1:00 | |||
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1.7
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I will go out now
Hans Abrahamsen; Barbara Hannigan; Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Andris Nelsons |
10:44 | |||
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Digital Booklet
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"... eerily alluring ... (a) remarkable Barbara Hannigan ..."
- The New York Times
"Five Stars ... a stunning vehicle for Hannigan, with its floating, effortless-sounding high notes and pure, expressive tone ..."
- The Guardian
"Editor's Choice ... a richly theatrical journey ... spare yet pregnant lines of text meet Abrahamsen’s finely spun textures and each word feels felt and weighed in music ... the Danish composer’s sound world is a mass of glinting detail ..."
- Gramophone
"Recording of the Month ... I was not familiar with (Abrahamsen) until I heard this extraordinary work ... Abrahamsen’s tonal palette is very broad and the colourful orchestration is unlike any I’ve heard ... the vocal writing is equally daunting requiring the soprano to make powerful leaps into the stratosphere ... a mesmerizing performance ... perfect accompanists in the Bavarian Radio Symphony and conductor Andris Nelsons. All of this is captured in sound that is both spacious and immediate."
- MusicWeb International
Soprano Barbara Hannigan and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks led by Andris Nelsons shine a spotlight on leading contemporary Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen with this unique, award-winning, lavishly praised album. Composed during 2012 and 2013, Let Me Tell You is a 30 minute dramatic monologue based on a 2008 novel by Paul Griffiths and voiced by a character who is not quite the Ophelia of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. While her entire text is made up of words Ophelia speaks in the play, she uses these identical words in different ways and certainly to express herself differently. Let Me Tell You earned Abrahamsen the 2016 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition and a 2014 RPS Music Award from the Royal Philharmonic Society.
48 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Winter and Winter Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -4.41 -17.40 to -0.80 | -26.54 -34.60 to -20.91 | -22.86 -31.10 to -16.90 | 13 10 to 14 | |
| 1 | Let me tell you how it was | -2.49 | -27.75 | -24.2 | 14 |
| 2 | O but memory is not one but many | -0.80 | -24.72 | -21.1 | 13 |
| 3 | There was a time, I remember | -3.12 | -27.42 | -24.0 | 14 |
| 4 | Let me tell you how it is | -1.26 | -21.63 | -17.9 | 12 |
| 5 | Now I do not mind | -0.80 | -20.91 | -16.9 | 13 |
| 6 | I know you are there | -17.40 | -34.60 | -31.1 | 10 |
| 7 | I will go out now | -4.98 | -28.78 | -24.8 | 14 |