℗ 2016 PentaTone
| Released | April 1, 2016 |
| Duration | 2h 25m 16s |
| Record Label | PentaTone |
| Catalogue No. | PTC5186583 |
| Genre | Classical (Opera) |
Higdon: Cold Mountain
The Sante Fe Opera, Miguel Harth-Bedoya
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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Cold Mountain, Act I
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1.1
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Scene 1: Peaches in the summertime (Teague, Owens, Chorus)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Jay Hunter Morris; Robert Pomakov; Santa Fe Opera Chorus; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
4:33 | |||
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1.2
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Scene 2: What was his name? (Chorus, Inman, Blind Man)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Nathan Gunn; Kevin Burdette; Santa Fe Opera Chorus; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
6:08 | |||
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1.3
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Scene 2: The metal age (Inman, Ada, Teague, Blind Man)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Isabel Leonard; Jay Hunter Morris; Nathan Gunn; Kevin Burdette; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
6:09 | |||
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1.4
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Scene 3: I don't like that man (Monroe, Ada, Inman)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Isabel Leonard; Cadence Dennis; Nathan Gunn; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
4:30 | |||
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1.5
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Scene 4: Who ya' talking to? (Ruby, Ada)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Isabel Leonard; Emily Fons; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
4:01 | |||
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1.6
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Scene 5: We once lived in a land of paradise (Veasey, Inman, Home Guard, Laura)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Roger Honeywell; Roy Hage; Anthony Michaels-Moore; Andrea Núñez; Nathan Gunn; Robert Pomakov; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
6:44 | |||
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1.7
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Scene 6: Sun's up. You'll eat later (Ruby, Ada)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Emily Fons; Isabel Leonard; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
2:32 | |||
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1.8
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Scene 6: My only teacher was hunger (Ruby, Ada, Inman)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Emily Fons; Isabel Leonard; Nathan Gunn; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
6:34 | |||
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1.9
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Scene 6: Why can't we? (Ada, Inman)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Isabel Leonard; Nathan Gunn; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
3:35 | |||
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1.10
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Scene 7: Mister, how much to ferry me across? (Inman, Veasey)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Isabel Leonard; Nathan Gunn; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
2:36 | |||
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1.11
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Scene 8: Look at me, I'm floating (Lila, Sisters, Claire, Olivia, Katie, Veasey, Inman, Junior)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Heather Phillips; Shabnam Kalbasi; Megan Marino; Bridgette Gan; Roger Honeywell; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
6:07 | |||
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1.12
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Scene 9: Listen (Ruby, Ada, Stobrod, Teague)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Emily Fons; Isabel Leonard; Jay Hunter Morris; Kevin Burdette; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
8:08 | |||
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1.13
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Scene 9: A fence is a good thing (Teague, Ada, Ruby, Stobrod)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Emily Fons; Isabel Leonard; Jay Hunter Morris; Kevin Burdette; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
3:37 | |||
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1.14
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Scene 10: I told you. I'm a preacher! (Veasey, Home Guard Man, Home Guard Men, Federal Chorus, Inman, Chorus)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Roger Honeywell; Roy Hage; Nathan Gunn; Anthony Michaels-Moore; Robert Pomakov; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
2:47 | |||
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1.15
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Scene 10: Come back to cold mountain (Ada, Inman)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Isabel Leonard; Nathan Gunn; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
4:58 | |||
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Cold Mountain, Act II
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2.1
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Opening
Jennifer Higdon; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
0:58 | |||
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2.2
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Scene 1: Is that all you got? (Lucinda, Inman)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Deborah Nansteel; Nathan Gunn; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
7:08 | |||
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2.3
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Scene 2: Interlude: Inman Walking
Jennifer Higdon; Nathan Gunn; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
1:09 | |||
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2.4
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Scene 3: Orion (Ada, Inman)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Isabel Leonard; Nathan Gunn; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
2:46 | |||
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2.5
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Scene 4: Bless you, Ruby (Ruby, Stobrod, Pangle, Ada, Reid)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Emily Fons; Isabel Leonard; Roy Hage; Anthony Michaels-Moore; Kevin Burdette; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
6:13 | |||
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2.6
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Scene 5: Your baby sick? (Inman, Sara)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Basler Chelsea; Nathan Gunn; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
6:31 | |||
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2.7
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Scene 6: Funny lookin' scarecrow... (Teague, Ruby)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Emily Fons; Jay Hunter Morris; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
4:31 | |||
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2.8
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Scene 7: Get up! Quick! (Sara, Ethan, Thomas, Charlie, Inman)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Basler Chelsea; Daniel Bates; Nathan Gunn; Tyler Putnam; Robert Pomakov; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
2:32 | |||
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2.9
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Scene 8: I should be cryin' but I just feel numb (Ada, Ruby, Inman, Quintet)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Emily Fons; Isabel Leonard; Nathan Gunn; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
2:41 | |||
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2.10
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Scene 9: Howdy, strangers …Keep playin … (Teague, Stobrod, Pangle, Reid, Ruby, Ada)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Jay Hunter Morris; Roy Hage; Anthony Michaels-Moore; Kevin Burdette; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
4:51 | |||
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2.11
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Scene 10: Our beautiful country (Chorus of the Dead, Ruby, Ada)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Emily Fons; Isabel Leonard; Santa Fe Opera Chorus; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
4:17 | |||
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2.12
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Scene 10: I feel sorry for you (Ada, Ruby)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Isabel Leonard; Emily Fons; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
4:40 | |||
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2.13
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Scene 11: I'm lost (Inman, Ada, Ruby)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Emily Fons; Isabel Leonard; Nathan Gunn; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
3:30 | |||
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2.14
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Scene 12: You just need to rest. We'll talk later (Inman, Ada, Ruby)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Isabel Leonard; Emily Fons; Nathan Gunn; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
6:31 | |||
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2.15
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Scene 12: Tell her (Chorus, Inman, Ada, Veasey, Chain Gang, Lila, Olivia, Claire, Katie, Sara, Soldiers, Ruby, Reid, Ruby, Birch)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Basler Chelsea; Bridgette Gan; Heather Phillips; Shabnam Kalbasi; Emily Fons; Megan Marino; Isabel Leonard; Roy Hage; Roger Honeywell; Anthony Michaels-Moore; Nathan Gunn; Robert Pomakov; Nicholas Ottersberg; Santa Fe Opera Chorus; Santa Fe Opera Orchestr |
11:39 | |||
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2.16
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Scene 13: Epilogue: Nine years later (Ruby, Ada)
Jennifer Higdon; Gene Scheer; Isabel Leonard; Emily Fons; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Miguel Harth-Bedoya |
2:20 | |||
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Digital Booklet
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Grammy Award nomination - Best Opera Recording, 2016
Grammy Award nomination - Best Contemporary Classical Composition, 2016
The Sante Fe Opera kicks off a PentaTone series exclusively focused on contemporary American opera with this live world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon's first opera. Conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya and recorded in August 2015, Cold Mountain is set to a libretto by Gene Scheer and based on a 1997 National Book Award-winning novel by Charles Frazier.
"After years of searching for a story that would be the focus of my first opera, I read the first several pages of Charles Frazier’s award-winning Cold Mountain and realized this was it ... writing this opera would be a recollection of the landscape of my formative years ... a familiarity that I would welcome in a new-to-me genre."
- Jennifer Higdon
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – PentaTone Studio Masters
Recorded live at the Santa Fe Opera, August 2015 By arrangement with Lawdon Press, publisher General director: Charles MacKay Director of artistic administration: Brad Woolbright Recording project consultant: Michael Bronson Producer: Elizabeth Ostrow Balance engineer: Mark Donahue Recording engineer: Dirk Sobotka Wireless engineer: David Williams Editing: Dirk Sobotka Mixing and mastering: Mark Donahue Post-production: Soundmirror, Inc. Graphic design: Debi Kline and Matt Walker, Synch Agency Production photography © Ken Howard for the Santa Fe Opera The Crosby Theatre, page 2 © Paul Horpedahl Moon Over the Opera, page 6 © Mark Nohl The Crosby Theatre, page 102 © Robert Godwin Appalachian vista, exterior front cover and booklet cover © Brent McGuirt
Recorded live at the Santa Fe Opera, August 2015 By arrangement with Lawdon Press, publisher General director: Charles MacKay Director of artistic administration: Brad Woolbright Recording project consultant: Michael Bronson Producer: Elizabeth Ostrow Balance engineer: Mark Donahue Recording engineer: Dirk Sobotka Wireless engineer: David Williams Editing: Dirk Sobotka Mixing and mastering: Mark Donahue Post-production: Soundmirror, Inc. Graphic design: Debi Kline and Matt Walker, Synch Agency Production photography © Ken Howard for the Santa Fe Opera The Crosby Theatre, page 2 © Paul Horpedahl Moon Over the Opera, page 6 © Mark Nohl The Crosby Theatre, page 102 © Robert Godwin Appalachian vista, exterior front cover and booklet cover © Brent McGuirt
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -1.20 -9.16 to 0.00 | -23.40 -29.92 to -16.36 | -19.93 -26.50 to -13.10 | 14 10 to 16 | |
| 1.1 | Scene 1: Peaches in the summertime (Teague, Owens, Chorus) | 0.00 | -26.95 | -23.9 | 15 |
| 1.2 | Scene 2: What was his name? (Chorus, Inman, Blind Man) | 0.00 | -25.28 | -21.7 | 16 |
| 1.3 | Scene 2: The metal age (Inman, Ada, Teague, Blind Man) | 0.00 | -22.43 | -17.9 | 14 |
| 1.4 | Scene 3: I don't like that man (Monroe, Ada, Inman) | 0.00 | -19.20 | -15.9 | 13 |
| 1.5 | Scene 4: Who ya' talking to? (Ruby, Ada) | 0.00 | -24.71 | -21.0 | 16 |
| 1.6 | Scene 5: We once lived in a land of paradise (Veasey, Inman, Home Guard, Laura) | -2.69 | -27.85 | -24.4 | 16 |
| 1.7 | Scene 6: Sun's up. You'll eat later (Ruby, Ada) | -2.26 | -25.30 | -22.2 | 14 |
| 1.8 | Scene 6: My only teacher was hunger (Ruby, Ada, Inman) | 0.00 | -17.67 | -14.5 | 11 |
| 1.9 | Scene 6: Why can't we? (Ada, Inman) | 0.00 | -20.72 | -16.3 | 12 |
| 1.10 | Scene 7: Mister, how much to ferry me across? (Inman, Veasey) | 0.00 | -19.20 | -15.9 | 13 |
| 1.11 | Scene 8: Look at me, I'm floating (Lila, Sisters, Claire, Olivia, Katie, Veasey, Inman, Junior) | 0.00 | -24.71 | -21.0 | 16 |
| 1.12 | Scene 9: Listen (Ruby, Ada, Stobrod, Teague) | -2.69 | -27.85 | -24.4 | 16 |
| 1.13 | Scene 9: A fence is a good thing (Teague, Ada, Ruby, Stobrod) | -2.26 | -25.30 | -22.2 | 14 |
| 1.14 | Scene 10: I told you. I'm a preacher! (Veasey, Home Guard Man, Home Guard Men, Federal Chorus, Inman, Chorus) | 0.00 | -17.67 | -14.5 | 11 |
| 1.15 | Scene 10: Come back to cold mountain (Ada, Inman) | 0.00 | -20.72 | -16.3 | 12 |
| 2.1 | Opening | 0.00 | -16.36 | -13.1 | 10 |
| 2.2 | Scene 1: Is that all you got? (Lucinda, Inman) | 0.00 | -23.64 | -20.1 | 15 |
| 2.3 | Scene 2: Interlude: Inman Walking | -9.16 | -27.45 | -24.8 | 11 |
| 2.4 | Scene 3: Orion (Ada, Inman) | 0.00 | -20.36 | -16.0 | 12 |
| 2.5 | Scene 4: Bless you, Ruby (Ruby, Stobrod, Pangle, Ada, Reid) | 0.00 | -22.67 | -19.4 | 14 |
| 2.6 | Scene 5: Your baby sick? (Inman, Sara) | -6.46 | -29.92 | -26.5 | 16 |
| 2.7 | Scene 6: Funny lookin' scarecrow... (Teague, Ruby) | -3.88 | -27.98 | -24.6 | 15 |
| 2.8 | Scene 7: Get up! Quick! (Sara, Ethan, Thomas, Charlie, Inman) | 0.00 | -17.98 | -15.0 | 12 |
| 2.9 | Scene 8: I should be cryin' but I just feel numb (Ada, Ruby, Inman, Quintet) | -2.42 | -24.31 | -21.4 | 13 |
| 2.10 | Scene 9: Howdy, strangers …Keep playin … (Teague, Stobrod, Pangle, Reid, Ruby, Ada) | 0.00 | -20.90 | -17.4 | 13 |
| 2.11 | Scene 10: Our beautiful country (Chorus of the Dead, Ruby, Ada) | -1.23 | -24.37 | -21.4 | 15 |
| 2.12 | Scene 10: I feel sorry for you (Ada, Ruby) | 0.00 | -23.22 | -19.5 | 14 |
| 2.13 | Scene 11: I'm lost (Inman, Ada, Ruby) | 0.00 | -26.93 | -23.8 | 16 |
| 2.14 | Scene 12: You just need to rest. We'll talk later (Inman, Ada, Ruby) | -0.30 | -25.75 | -22.3 | 16 |
| 2.15 | Scene 12: Tell her (Chorus, Inman, Ada, Veasey, Chain Gang, Lila, Olivia, Claire, Katie, Sara, Soldiers, Ruby, Reid, Ruby, Birch) | 0.00 | -19.39 | -14.9 | 12 |
| 2.16 | Scene 13: Epilogue: Nine years later (Ruby, Ada) | -3.87 | -28.55 | -25.4 | 13 |