David Lang: Love Fail (Version for Women's Chorus)

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The expanded version is a gift for the Lorelei Ensemble … A wholly remarkable modern composition and a faultless performance — Choir & Organ, September/October 2020, 5 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 25th Sep 2020
Catalogue No: CA21158
Label: Cantaloupe
Length: 50 minutes

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Lang, D: Love Fail

Work length50:24

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Clare McNamara (mezzo-soprano), Carrie Cheron (mezzo-soprano), Sonja DuToit Tengblad (soprano), Sarah Brailey (soprano), Emily Marvosh (alto)
Lorelei Ensemble
Beth Willer

I. He Was and She Was

Track length8:02

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Break No. 1 "Three Years"

Track length0:41

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II. Dureth

Track length1:08

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III. A Different Man

Track length1:16

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IV. The Wood and the Vine

Track length8:59

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V. Right and Wrong

Track length2:27

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VI. You Will Love Me

Track length2:44

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VII. Forbidden Subjects

Track length2:40

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VIII. As Love Grows Stronger

Track length5:42

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Break No. 2 "Instrumental"

Track length0:12

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IX. The Outing

Track length1:39

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X. I Live in Pain

Track length3:49

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XI. Head, Heart

Track length3:19

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Break No. 3 "If I Have to Drown"

Track length3:09

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XII. Mild, Light

Track length4:37

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"This newly expanded choral arrangement of David Lang’s love fail, performed by the renowned Lorelei Ensemble and conducted by Beth Willer, adds haunting texture and power, as well as a more fully rounded sound, to Lang’s austere original. Praised for their “impeccable musicality and pure-voiced precision” by the Boston Globe after the 2016 premiere of this version for women’s chorus, Lorelei brings that same unmatched skill to the recording. From the hypnotic layers of the opening “he was and she was” to the almost devoutly meditative mood of “head, heart,” there’s an immediate sense of having captured an entirely new way of experiencing one of Lang’s most soulful and mysterious works. Lang composed love fail in 2012, and conceived of the work as a rumination on the timelessness of love, weaving together details from the story of Tristan and Isolde with more modern sources — specifically, the stories of contemporary author Lydia Davis. “These stories are oddly similar to the Tristan stories,” Lang writes in his liner notes to the recording. “They are also about love, honor and respect between two people, but they are much more recognizable to us.”"

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September/October 2020

The expanded version is a gift for the Lorelei Ensemble … A wholly remarkable modern composition and a faultless performance

David Lang: Love Fail (Version for Women's Chorus)

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