Lizzie Borden

Lizzie Borden

Lizzie Borden
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Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-06-20
Music Label: Composers Recordings
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Lizzie Borden: A Family Portrait In Three Acts: Prelude
  2. Lizzie Borden: A Family Portrait In Three Acts: Act I Scene 1Children : 'Toiling Early In The Morning'
  3. Lizzie Borden: A Family Portrait In Three Acts: Andrew : 'It Is Almost Finished' And Lizzie
  4. Lizzie Borden: A Family Portrait In Three Acts: Andrew's Aria
  5. Lizzie Borden: A Family Portrait In Three Acts: Act I Scene 2: Margaret's Garden Aria
  6. Lizzie Borden: A Family Portrait In Three Acts: Margret: 'The House Watches'
  7. Lizzie Borden: A Family Portrait In Three Acts: Prelude to Act II - Abbie's Bird Song
  8. Lizzie Borden: A Family Portrait In Three Acts: Unpleasantries And Introductions
  9. Lizzie Borden: A Family Portrait In Three Acts: Two Quintets
  10. Lizzie Borden: A Family Portrait In Three Acts: More Unpleasantness
  11. Lizzie Borden: A Family Portrait In Three Acts: Lizzie: 'What am I Forbidden Now?'
  12. Lizzie Borden: A Family Portrait In Three Acts: Lizzie's Mad Scene
Music CD 2
  1. Lizzie Borden: A Family Portrait In Three Acts: Act III, Scene 1
  2. Lizzie Borden: A Family Portrait In Three Acts: Jason's Song, Duet, Trio
  3. Lizzie Borden: A Family Portrait In Three Acts: Lizzie's Dressing Scene
  4. Lizzie Borden: A Family Portrait In Three Acts: Abbie: 'Bravo!', The Bitch Scene
  5. Lizzie Borden: A Family Portrait In Three Acts: Scene 2, Lizzie: 'Kill Time,' Scene, And Murder
  6. Lizzie Borden: A Family Portrait In Three Acts: Andrew And Lizzie: Seduction Scene
  7. Lizzie Borden: A Family Portrait In Three Acts: Second-Murder Interlude
  8. Lizzie Borden: A Family Portrait In Three Acts: Scene 3, Epilogue

Music reviews of Lizzie Borden

Music Review: A Misunderstood Opera
Rating: 4 Stars

Upon first listen, the audience frequently comes away from Lizzie Borden with the impression that it is a second rate modernist, atonal, dodecaphonic whatever nonesense garbage. However, upon a closer listening, Lizzie Borden is actually quite a lyrical opera. For example, Abbie's bird song has a sort of late-romantic beauty to it, as does Margaret's Garden aria. Yes, there is a building sense of psychotic hypnotism in the music as the opera progresses, finally culminating in the jagged pestering of the step mother who rains down hell on Lizzie's dreams of male companionship, then leading to the step mother's murder. Beeson's crafting of this scene is incredible; music in this opera is beautiful, yes, but he can really pull through in loosening the audience member from his seat, unable to sit comfortably.

While the cast is excellent, the recording quality of this opera can stand an improvement.

Give this opera a try, and then several more tries. Let it grow on you, both the lyrical and nerve-wracking scenes.
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