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Thomas Tseng (Kaohsiung, Taiwan)

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Musical Donne
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Dear all,

Ketil Bjornstad, Norwegian composer/pianist, has just finished recording his third Donne album, entitled The Light & Four Nordic Songs, which will be released in 2008. The album contains the following settings: "The Dream," "The Prohibition," "A Valediction: of weeping," "The Flea," "A Nocturnall upon St. Lucies Day," "The Sun Rising," "Air and Angels," "Love's Alchemy," "Break of Day" and "A Hymn to God the Father." I have just received a master copy from the composer himself. The music and the voice are just wonderful.

Bjornstad's previous two Donne album are The Shadow (1990) and Grace (2001). All three of them are great for Donne lovers--the sole existing musical trilogy that celebrates the genius of Donne's poetry.


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Jameela Lares

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Thank you for posting this information, as I had not heard of this composer's work.

I checked amazon.com and found a copy of the 1990 CD for $125--a bit steep! But it's apparently being reissued, as amazon.co.uk lists a 2007 version for £11.99, with a reissue date of June 11, 2007. Is this the same one?

Jameela

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Thomas Tseng

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Dear Jameela,

I haven't checked Amacon.com. I think it's better to give you the details about The Shadow and Grace:

The Shadow (1990), published by Kirkelig Kulturverksted, Oslo (FXCD 93)
1, Sweetest Love  2. A Lecture upon the shadow  3. The Shadow (instrumental)  4. The Good-morrow  5. Go, and catch a falling star  6. The Dream (instrumental)  7. The Token  8. The Paradox  9. His Picture (instrumental)  10. Love's Exchange  11. The Silence (instrumental)  12. Hymn (instrumental)

Grace (2001), published by Emarcy (Universal, Norway) (013 622-2)
1. No man is an island  2. Love's Infiniteness  3. The Bait  4. White (instrumental)  5. The Anniversary  6. Love's Growth  7. Song  8. Love's Usury  9. Naked (instrumental)  10. Grace (instrumental)  11. The Indifferent  12. Mystery (instrumental)  13. The Canonization  14. Take a flat map  15. Finale: No man is an island

BTW, Bjornstad has also setting to music Hart Crane's poems; the album is called The Nest (2003, Emarcy 067 153-2). Good luck!

Thomas
 

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Andrew Donne

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my uncle
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John Donne is my great, great uncle. My dad said he was a famous poet.

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Ditch Boultbee

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RE: Musical Donne
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That would be an amazing set of world records.
John Donne is my umpteen Greats Grand father.
As far as I know Done has no descendants in
a direct male line if any one knows otherwise I
would like to know about them.

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Forrest Hall

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Right, He was one of the great poet. John Donne was born in Bread Street, London in 1572 to a prosperous Roman Catholic family a precarious thing at a time when anti-Catholic sentiment was rife in England. Donne wrote just before his death was Hymne to God, my God, In my Sicknesse.

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