SACD, Heggie (composer)
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Jake Heggie: Intelligence
RecommendedJanai Brugger (Mary Jane Bowser), J'Nai Bridges (Lucinda), Jamie Barton (Elizabeth Van Lew), Caitlin Lynch (Callie Van Lew), Michael Mayes (Travis Briggs), Nicholas Newton (Henry), Joshua Blue (Wilson)
Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, Kwamé Ryan
Heggie is a master of music-drama, with a gift for setting words and a musical style that borrows Barber's unabashed lyricism and the brash rhythmic drive of Bernstein. But in Intelligence,... —
Awards:
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Grammy Awards, 68th Awards (2026), Nominated - Best Opera Recording
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2025, World Premiere Recording (New Work)
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A performance full of interest and vividly communicative artistry. —
Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2019
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2019, Choral & Song Choice
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Special offer. Jake Heggie & Gene Scheer: Here/After
Songs of Lost Voices
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Ekaterina Gorlova, Ashley Traughbet (sopranos) Nathan Gunn (baritone), Dawn Walker (flute), Dawn Harms (violin), Marc Teicholz (guitar), Emil Miland (cello), Carol Wincenc (flute), Jake Heggie (piano), Stephen Costello (tenor), Jose Gonvalez Granero (clarinet), Talise Trevigne...
Though Heggie's thematic ideas might seem a bit commonplace on first hearing, listeners are advised to stay alert to each song's last note. Invariably, one is ambushed by the music's cumulative... —
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Special offer. A Certain Slant of Light
Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson
Lisa Delan (soprano)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille, Lawrence Foster
[Tilson Thomas’s] spacious text-setting and assured, imaginative orchestrations compellingly evoke the oblique, revelatory quality of Dickinson’s verse. Lisa Delan, a committed champion of American... —
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Special offer. December Celebration
New Carols by Seven American Composers
Lisa Delan (soprano) & Lester Lynch (baritone)
Musicians of the New Century Chamber Orchestra & Volti Chorus, Dawn Harms
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Special offer. Lisa Delan: The Hours Begin to Sing
Cabaret Songs
Lisa Delan (soprano), Kristin Pankonin (piano), Matt Haimovitz (cello), David Krakauer (clarinet)
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Special offer. Heggie: It’s a Wonderful Life
William Burden (George), Andrea Carroll (Mary), Talise Trevigne (Clara), Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, Patrick Summers
Heggie’s eclectic tonal music is light on lyrical flights and rhythmically overly rigid, but the accomplished orchestral writing satisfyingly conjures up appropriate moos of ardour and longing.... —
