Abby Fischer - Patrick Castillo: The Quality of Mercy (2015) [Hi-Res]

New York City-based composer Patrick Castillo’s debut album The Quality of Mercy presents two large-scale vocal chamber works featuring mezzo-soprano Abigail Fischer and a superb ensemble of chamber musicians. The album’s title work offers an abstract meditation on reconciliation, deriving musical and structural content from plainchant, The Merchant of Venice, bird songs, urban field recordings and other sources. Also included on the programme is Castillo’s Webern-esque Cirque for solo violin, performed by Grammy-winning violinist Karen Kim.

Tracklist:
01. Abby Fischer - This Is the Hour of Lead: No. 1. After great pain, a formal feeling comes (9:27)
02. Jill Heinke - This Is the Hour of Lead: No. 2. Interlude I (1:06)
03. Abby Fischer - This Is the Hour of Lead: No. 3. Vocalise (2:10)
04. Jill Heinke - This Is the Hour of Lead: No. 4. Interlude II (2:22)
05. Abby Fischer - This Is the Hour of Lead: No. 5. Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (6:10)
06. Karen Kim - Cirque (4:21)
07. Abby Fischer - The Quality of Mercy: No. 1. Introit (4:56)
08. Moran Katz - The Quality of Mercy: No. 2. Kyrie (as the gentle rain I) (2:33)
09. Abby Fischer - The Quality of Mercy: No. 3. What (2:06)
10. Jill Heinke - The Quality of Mercy: No. 4. Interlude (2:02)
11. Jill Heinke - The Quality of Mercy: No. 5. it becomes the throned monarch better than his crown (3:50)
12. Abby Fischer - The Quality of Mercy: No. 6. Anthem (anathema) (5:23)
13. Jill Heinke - The Quality of Mercy: No. 7. as the gentle rain II (3:48)
14. Jill Heinke - The Quality of Mercy: No. 8. Coda (1:40)