Far Cry & Shara Nova Blue Hour CD

New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records release The Blue Hour, a song cycle written collaboratively by the female composers Rachel Grimes, Ang?lica Negr?n, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, and Sarah Kirkland Snider; this unique joint vision among a female collective is available October 14, 2022. The cycle was commissioned by, and is performed with, the Boston-based chamber orchestra A Far Cry. (Nova also is featured as vocal soloist.) Set to excerpts from Carolyn Forch?'s epic poem On Earth, the music follows one woman's journey through the space between life and death via thousands of hallucinatory and non-linear images. Exploring memories of childhood, of war, of love, and of loss, The Blue Hour amplifies the beauty, pain, and fragility of human life from a collective female perspective.

1. The Blue Hour: No. 1, Prologue 2. The Blue Hour: No. 2, Opening 3. The Blue Hour: No. 3, A black map 4. The Blue Hour: No. 4, A memory 5. The Blue Hour: No. 5, A syllable 6. The Blue Hour: No. 6, Angelica-balefire 7. The Blue Hour: No. 7, Canticle 8. The Blue Hour: No. 8, Dark 9. The Blue Hour: No. 9, Early summerÆs green plums 10. The Blue Hour: No. 10, Even if by forgetting á- By Shara Nova 11. The Blue Hour: No. 11, Firmament 12. The Blue Hour: No. 12, 1st Refrain 13. The Blue Hour: No. 13, Ghost swift 14. The Blue Hour: No. 14, He told her how 15. The Blue Hour: No. 15, Her hair 16. The Blue Hour: No. 16, I am alone 17. The Blue Hour: No. 17, In the toy store 18. The Blue Hour: No. 18, It appears to be an elegy 19. The Blue Hour: No. 19, J'ai r?v? 20. The Blue Hour: No. 20, Keeping a record á- By Shara Nova 21. The Blue Hour: No. 21, Library lilac 22. The Blue Hour: No. 22, My dear 23. The Blue Hour: No. 23, Nevertheless 24. The Blue Hour: No. 24, Oil soap 25. The Blue Hour: No. 25, Older than clocks 26. The Blue Hour: No. 26, Poppy seed 27. The Blue Hour: No. 27, 2nd Refrain 28. The Blue Hour: No. 28, She heard no one's footsteps 29. The Blue Hour: No. 29, Tendril 30. The Blue Hour: No. 30, The ganglia 31. The Blue Hour: No. 31, The hole 32. The Blue Hour: No. 32, The name 33. The Blue Hour: No. 33, The silence 34. The Blue Hour: No. 34, Twirling 35. The Blue Hour: No. 35, Vesture, vigil 36. The Blue Hour: No. 36, We are as paper 37. The Blue Hour: No. 37, Yet the women 38. The Blue Hour: No. 38, You are the ghost 39. The Blue Hour: No. 39, Zero 40. The Blue Hour: No. 40, 3rd Refrain