Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf, by Margo Richter

Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf

by Margo Richter

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1.	Sarah Do Not Mourn Me Dead (1995) 07:08	buy track
2.	Two Chinese Songs: 1. The Hermit (1952) 01:51	buy track
3.	Two Chinese Songs: 2. Fishing Picture (1952) 00:57	buy track
4.	Wild Moon (2009) 02:25	buy track
5.	Two Shakespeare Sonnets: Sonnet 128 (2007) 01:47	buy track
6.	Two Shakespeare Sonnets: Sonnet 71 (2007) 03:00	buy track
7.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Prologue 1. Thoughts sweet and gentle 01:14
8.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Prologue 2. How Still It Is 01:39
9.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Prologue 3. Ever in my mind 01:24
10.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Prologue 4. My path is quiet 01:32
11.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Prologue 5. Beside my door the flowers bloom 00:47
12.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Prologue 6. Little ball of woolen thread 00:30
13.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Prologue 7. Could someone have taken my robe away 00:08
14.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Prologue 8. The soft white clouds of heaven 01:11
15.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Prologue 9. Like a castle 00:30
16.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Prologue 10. A thing unknown 01:42
17.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Spring #1, 1. In the sprightly light of spring 00:58
18.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Spring #1, 2. How delightful it is 00:20
19.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Spring #1, 3. When the mist cleared away 00:34
20.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Spring #1, 4. Children, let us off to the hillside now 00:27
21.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Spring #1, 5. What are those fluttering shadows 00:27
22.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Spring #1, 6. What a pity! 00:24
23.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Spring #1, 7. Behold a skylark 01:00
24.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Summer 1. Spring has passed 03:46
25.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Summer 2. The world this day 02:05
26.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Summer 3. The shy blossoms of the silk tree 00:57
27.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Summer 4. Out on the fields 01:57
28.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Summer 5. My heart is filled with moaning 02:30
29.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Autumn 1. Kugami's mountain way 01:42
30.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Autumn 2. Today the world is bleak and chill 01:11
31.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Autumn 3. The autumn clouds 00:54
32.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Autumn 4. Oh autumn rain 00:38
33.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Autumn 5. Full on the new-fallen mountain leaves 00:51
34.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Autumn 6. Aloft o'er the distant hill 01:34
35.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Autumn 7. Before my gate 01:33
36.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Winter 1. Snow heaps these hills 01:13
37.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Winter 2. O Tree, so lone and sad 01:14
38.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Winter 3. Beloved waterfall 00:42
39.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Spring #2, 1. The spring's pure flowers 01:44
40.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Spring #2, 2. The music of the spring birds' songs 01:04
41.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Spring #2, 3. In a mountain village 00:46
42.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Spring # 2, 4. Even when mortal man is no more 00:52
43.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Epilogue 1. Mortal life is as a drop of dew 01:13
44.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Epilogue 2. When I depart hither 01:29
45.	Dew-Drops on a Lotus Leaf: Epilogue 3. The Island of Sado 01:03

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Includes CD Booklet as a pdf file

Marga Richter's instrumental compositions are well-represented on recordings, starting with MGM's commissions in the 1950s. But "Dew-drops On A Lotus Leaf & Other Songs" is the first full recital of her vocal music. A sense of melancholy permeates most of the tracks, from the elegiac civil war letter "Sarah do not mourn me dead" to the despairing resignation of "Sonnet 71" of Shakespeare. But she's not afraid to stir things up once in a while, as in the primal opening to "Wild Moon." But the tour-de-force of the recording is the titular song-cycle. Richter takes us on an epic journey, as the 18th-century Japanese Zen-Poet-Monk Ryokan travels through five seasons of life (and Prologue and Epilogue). The multi-octave cycle moves between tenor and counter-tenor range, and is in turns soothing and demanding, ethereal and intense.

Most of the songs in this collection were composed for or premiered by Tenor William George. After hearing Mr. George perform "Sarah do not mourn me dead," for the first time in 2003, Richter wrote, “Upon reflection, I find that it was the only perfect performance of any of my pieces that I ever heard! And I mean perfect in every way.” Pianist Andrea Lodge provides sensitive and nuanced collaboration.

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released October 1, 2014

Performers: William George - tenor; Andrea Lodge, piano
Producers: Marga Richter
Engineer: Branic Howard
Digital Editing: Branic Howard
Mastering: Don Harder
Recorded at: Staller Center for the Arts Recital Hall, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, August 27-30, 2013
Graphic Design: William George

CD Review at Classical-Modern: classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.ca/2015/06/marga-richter-dew-drops-on-lotus-leaf.html

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