Artist: Wendy Hillhouse
Album: To the Western Sea
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2022
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 48 kHz
Duration: 50:50
Total Tracks: 16
Total Size: 509 MB

Tracklist:

1-1. Wendy Hillhouse – I. The Anger (03:34)
1-2. Wendy Hillhouse – II. The Child on the Shore (04:30)
1-3. Wendy Hillhouse – III. Footnote (03:46)
1-4. Wendy Hillhouse – IV. Hard Words (02:18)
1-5. Wendy Hillhouse – V. For Katya (02:11)
1-6. Mariya Kaganskaya – I. The Old Lady (03:09)
1-7. Mariya Kaganskaya – II. The Housewife (01:40)
1-8. Mariya Kaganskaya – III. The Forsaken Shepherdess (02:49)
1-9. Mariya Kaganskaya – IV. The Mute (01:45)
1-10. Mariya Kaganskaya – V. The Lorelei to Heinrich Heine (02:11)
1-11. Mariya Kaganskaya – VI.The Little Girl (02:44)
1-12. Mariya Kaganskaya – VII. Anonyma (02:34)
1-13. Kindra Scharich – I. Come to Dust (04:05)
1-14. Kindra Scharich – II. To the Rain (03:10)
1-15. Kindra Scharich – III. On the Western Shore (03:52)
1-16. Mariya Kaganskaya – Lavinia’s Vision (06:25)

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This is an album of music set to poems of Ursula K. Le Guin, the great fantasy writer of books and poems. The composer, Elinor, had a nearly 40-year friendship with the great writer. Widely performed throughout the U.S. and abroad, Elinor Armer’s music reflects her persona in it’s high-hearted originality. It includes solo, chamber, orchestral, vocal and choral works, and is marked by harmonic beauty, strong narrative line, rhythmic energy, sensitivity to language, emotional expressiveness, and humor. Performed by Wendy Hillhouse, mezzo-soprano; Esther Landau, flute; Rira Watanabe, violin, Keisuke Nakagoshi, piano; Erica Johnson, percussion; Mariya Kaganskaya, mezzo-soprano, Kindra Scharich, mezzo-soprano, Lois Brandwynne, piano, and Elinor Armer, piano.