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Walter Steffens | Words by Marec Béla Steffens

TWO CELLS IN SEVILLA, OR: DON QUIXOTE IS HUNGRY, OP. 106 (2016)

Members of the Greenbriar Consortium | David Kirk conductor

Sonja Bruzauskas The cook, a young girl (mezzo)

Todd R Miller Don Miguel, a nobleman, in debtors’ prison (tenor)

Octavio Moreno Brother Gabriel, a young monk (bass)

Benjamin LeClair A servant (baritone)

Anne Leek oboe/cor anglais

Alexander Potiomkin clarinet

Masahito Sugihara saxophone

Erika Johnson cello

Paul Boyd piano

 

01 GABRIEL: Atishoo! Pater noster qui es in coelis  7:50

 

02 COOK: Prayer book, my foot! It’s a romance I’m reading!  7:30

 

03 SERVANT: I am the giant Caraculiambro  4:37

 

04 GABRIEL: Say, have you never heard that those noble dons are usually unfaithful  4:24

 

05 COOK: To hell with him!  5:04

 

06 SERVANT: Oh, I almost forgot, I have a letter to deliver to you   8:46

 

 

Walter Steffens | Words by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843)

FIVE SONGS ON HÖLDERLIN, OP. 95 (2008)

Sonja Bruzauskas mezzo   Tali Morgulis piano

 

07 HYPERIONS SCHICKSALSLIED (Hyperion’s Song of Fate) 3:37

 

08 SONNENUNTERGANG (Sunset) 1:40

 

09 DIE LINIEN DES LEBENS [FRAGMENT II] (The lines of life [fragment II]  1:16

 

10 GEH UNTER, SCHÖNE SONNE (Go down then, lovely sun)  3:34

 

11 HÄLFTE DES LEBENS (Half of life) 2:15

 

CREDITS

 

Two Cells in SevillA, or: Don Quixote is Hungry, op. 106 (2016)

Recorded on May 16, 2017 at Wire Road Studios in Houston TX

 

Recording Session Producer and Engineer

Brad Sayles  |  http://www.bradsayles.com

 

Computer transcription Dirk Lötfering, Berlin, Germany

Using quotations from Don Quixote translation by John Ormsby and from Don Juan translation by Robert O’Brien

 

The world premiere of Two Cells in Sevilla was a co-production of the Round Top Theatre Forum (Producer: Kate Pogue) and of the Greenbriar Consortium with performances at Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church in Houston TX on 1 Nov. 2016 (Servant: Andrew Gilstrap, Conductor: Keith Weber, otherwise as given here) and on Festival Hill at Round Top TX on 5 Nov. 2016 (Servant: Vern Sutton, piano: Tali Margulis otherwise as given here). festivalhill.org

 

 

Five Songs on Hölderlin, op. 95 (2008)

Recorded on December 4, 2017 at Wire Road Studios in Houston TX

 

Recording Session Producer and Engineer

Brad Sayles  |  http://www.bradsayles.com

 

Music published by Boosey & Hawkes, ISBN 978-3-923051-11-3

 

Sung in the German original; composed in German and English using the adaptation by Michael Hamburger OBE (1924-2007) published by PL Nicholson & Watson, London in 1943 (and again by Penguin in 1998: Selected Poems and Fragments)

 

 

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Financial support from the Alice Taylor Gray Foundation, Galveston TX and from the estate of the late Christa Margarete Emilie Kornaczewski, Nuremberg, Germany is gratefully acknowledged, as is support in kind from the Houston Symphony, Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, the Foundation of Modern Music, the Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church, all Houston TX, and the Lone Star College, Kingwood TX.

 

 

Cover artwork Krystyna Steffens  |  krystynasteffens.de

 

 

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Executive A&R  Sam Renshaw

A&R  Marina Altschiller

Audio Director  Jeff LeRoy

Engineering Manager  Lucas Paquette

Mastering  Shuan Michaud

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Design  Emily Roulo

 

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