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ACD211

Voices of Men

Performers:


James Harrison, Will King, James Ioelu, Katherine Austin, Sarah Watkins, Richard Liu, Bill Stoneham, James Jin



Composers:


Janet Jennings




Following on from Jennings' Voices of Women, Voices of Men includes ‘Taking Off’, ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’, 'Songs of War', and 'Songs of Exile'.
Performed by 3 leading New Zealand baritones and accompanied by highly-respected musicians, these songs are about New Zealand men, with words from some of New Zealand's best-known male poets.

1.

Taking Off: Prologue

Janet Jennings

1:20

2.

Taking Off: Taking Off

Janet Jennings

1:50

3.

Taking Off: Song

Janet Jennings

2:57

4.

Taking Off: Semi-Kiwi

Janet Jennings

1:26

5.

Taking Off: Conjunctions

Janet Jennings

1:46

6.

Taking Off: Wind

Janet Jennings

2:20

7.

Taking Off: Tombed

Janet Jennings

5:33

8.

Taking Off: Epilogue

Janet Jennings

1:35

9.

Songs of Exile: Song of Exile - 1

Janet Jennings

2:30

10.

Songs of Exile: Song of Exile - 2

Janet Jennings

1:25

11.

Songs of Exile: The Wisdom of riro-riro

Janet Jennings

5:13

12.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Janet Jennings

15:40

13.

Songs of War: Song of War

Janet Jennings

4:16

14.

Songs of War: I Thought of You

Janet Jennings

3:24

15.

Songs of War: The Tethered Goat

Janet Jennings

3:08

16.

Songs of War: A Sarajevo Haiku & Dead Girl's Tanka

Tracks 16 and 17

Janet Jennings

2:20

18.

Songs of War: December Dreamtime

Janet Jennings

2:57