℗ 2022 Metier
Released | September 9, 2022 |
Duration | 1h 11m 32s |
Record Label | Metier |
Catalogue No. | MSV28618 |
Genre | Classical (Contemporary Era) |
Rodney Lister: Faith-Based Initiatives
Chiara String Quartet, Jonah Sirota, Charles Blandy, Collage New Music, David Hoose
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
1.1
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Faith-Based Initiative
Rodney Lister; Chiara String Quartet |
9:06 | |||
Complicated Grief
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1.2
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I. Fantasia
Rodney Lister; Jonah Sirota |
7:51 | |||
1.3
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II. Variance
Rodney Lister; Jonah Sirota |
12:25 | |||
1.4
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III. Quodlibet
Rodney Lister; Jonah Sirota |
3:21 | |||
Friendly Fire
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1.5
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I. Ode to the Confederate Dead
Rodney Lister; Allen Tate; Charles Blandy; Collage New Music; David Hoose |
11:04 | |||
1.6
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II. The Fury of Aerial Bombardment
Rodney Lister; Richard Eberhart; Charles Blandy; Collage New Music; David Hoose |
1:53 | |||
1.7
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III. Women, Children, Babies, Cows
Rodney Lister; Robert Lowell; Charles Blandy; Collage New Music; David Hoose |
1:19 | |||
1.8
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IV. Losses
Rodney Lister; Randall Jarrell; Charles Blandy; Collage New Music; David Hoose |
5:36 | |||
1.9
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V. The March into Virginia
Rodney Lister; Herman Melville; Charles Blandy; Collage New Music; David Hoose |
2:50 | |||
1.10
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VI. The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
Rodney Lister; Randall Jarrell; Charles Blandy; Collage New Music; David Hoose |
0:35 | |||
1.11
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VII. Ashbah
Rodney Lister; Brian Turner; Charles Blandy; Collage New Music; David Hoose |
2:24 | |||
1.12
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VIII. A Box Comes Home
Rodney Lister; John Ciardi; Charles Blandy; Collage New Music; David Hoose |
4:04 | |||
1.13
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IX. The Certainty
Rodney Lister; Denise Levertov; Charles Blandy; Collage New Music; David Hoose |
1:35 | |||
1.14
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X. For the Union Dead
Rodney Lister; Robert Lowell; Charles Blandy; Collage New Music; David Hoose |
7:29 | |||
Digital Booklet
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Though the works on this album are varied in genre, from vocal to string quartet, they share a common theme, explicit in the song cycle Friendly Fire and implicit in the other works; that theme embodies grief, personal or for the plight of people blighted by war; hope in the backing of action by faith. Rodney Lister is a composer based in New England. His biography is impressive and features commissions from the US Library of Congress and many leading ensembles, and a wealth of compositions, articles and other writings. He is currently teaching at Boston University and the New England Conservatory as well as tutoring duties at Harvard; he also works with the Greenwood Music Camp in Massachusetts. This album offers a view of a composer whose output is both lyrical and abstract, with a poetic command of foreground and background, consonance and dissonance. Often, the core of the work is a borrowed or found fragment, in particular American hymn tunes. The melodies become locations of stability but subject to subtle and sometimes unsettling modifications. One of the poems included in Friendly Fire (‘For the Union Dead’ by Robert Lowell) contains a racial epithet considered unacceptable in day to day speech and writing today. It is retained because of its historical and social context in a poem which is strongly anti-racist and is a cry against the injustice meted out to African-American troops fighting for the Union in the American Civil War. The poem itself is regarded as a classic of modern literature, appreciated by commentators of all ethnicities.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Metier Studio Masters
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -2.76 -4.39 to -1.00 | -23.35 -25.91 to -21.17 | -19.66 -22.20 to -17.50 | 13 12 to 15 | |
1 | Faith-Based Initiative | -1.00 | -22.78 | -19.5 | 15 |
2 | I. Fantasia | -1.00 | -23.15 | -17.5 | 13 |
3 | II. Variance | -1.00 | -25.91 | -20.1 | 15 |
4 | III. Quodlibet | -2.82 | -23.82 | -20.4 | 14 |
5 | I. Ode to the Confederate Dead | -3.35 | -22.52 | -19.7 | 13 |
6 | II. The Fury of Aerial Bombardment | -1.88 | -21.17 | -17.9 | 12 |
7 | III. Women, Children, Babies, Cows | -3.49 | -23.19 | -19.2 | 13 |
8 | IV. Losses | -3.33 | -22.22 | -19.4 | 12 |
9 | V. The March into Virginia | -2.61 | -21.61 | -18.6 | 13 |
10 | VI. The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner | -3.01 | -23.41 | -19.5 | 14 |
11 | VII. Ashbah | -4.02 | -24.12 | -20.7 | 12 |
12 | VIII. A Box Comes Home | -4.39 | -24.98 | -21.6 | 13 |
13 | IX. The Certainty | -2.98 | -25.84 | -22.2 | 13 |
14 | X. For the Union Dead | -3.72 | -22.18 | -19.0 | 13 |