Audio and Video Samples

      Audio Sample  

From The Realm Of The Shadow (Naxos 8.559089-90) is over two hours long and features a huge array of musical instruments and styles. This ten-and-a-half-minute audio clip will give you a sampling of a few of these styles, and an idea of the range of instrumentation. It flows together without interruption. Many thanks to Klaus Heymann, president of Naxos International, for granting permission to use these musical excerpts in this website.

        

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Times are approximate
  

0:00-1:29-- Overture to Act One. Strings, flute, vibes. Pure peace, the introduction of Love's leitmotif.
 

1:29-- End of Act One, Birth. The pain of birth is made even more traumatic for both mother (Camilla) and infant (Matthew) because of the memory of the horrors of the rape that brought Matthew into this world. The orchestra is joined by an expanded percussion section, synthesizers, and a second violent chorus vocalizing in a style similar to Balinese monkey-chanting (kecak).
 

2:30-- Act Two, Dances With Angels. Thirteen years later, the sleeping young Matthew is dancing with the angels he knew from before his birth.
 

3:24-- Act Two, Love. Matthew's mother Camilla and her love for Angela.
 

4:59-- Act Three, Dances With Monkeys. Matthew meets the threats of the violent second chorus with playfulness, which erupts into an ecstatic dance with a new 19-tone-to-the-octave musical system and monkey-chanting transforming into harmonic singing.
 

6:50--Act Three, Dance of Liberation. Middle-Eastern sounds but with a 34-note-to-the-octave oud/guitar in 21/8 time.
 

7:40--Act Three female sextet. Grief at Matthew's death deepens into a song of compassion.