Mr.Tambourine Man, 3 Hallucinations : Falletta / Buffalo Philharmonic, Plitmann

JOHN CORIGLIANO (B. 1938)
Mr. Tambourine Man

… A colleague suggested that I look into the poetry of the songs of Bob Dylan. Having not yet listened to the songs, I decided to send away for the texts only … and found many of them to be every bit as beautiful and as immediate as I had heard - and surprisingly well-suited to my own musical language … these would be in no way arrangements, or variations, or in any way derivations of the music of the original songs, which I decided to not hear before the cycle was complete … I intended to treat the Dylan lyrics as the poems I found them to be. Nor would their settings make any attempt at pop or rock writing. I wanted to take poetry I knew to be strongly associated with popular art and readdress it in terms of concert art - crossover in the opposite direction, one might say. Dylan granted his permission, and I set to work. John Corigliano ( NAXOS )

Mr. Tambourine Man - Seven Poems of Bob Dylan
(2000; version with orchestra 2003)
1. Prelude: Mr. Tambourine Man
2. Clothes Line
3. Blowin’ in the Wind
4. Masters of War
5. All Along the Watchtower
6. Chimes of Freedom
7. Postlude: Forever Young

Three Hallucinations (from Altered States) (1981)
1. Sacrifice
2. Hymn
3. Ritual

Hila Plitmann, amplified soprano
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
JoAnn Falletta, conductor

World Premiere Recording: 2007, 2008