Christopher Rountree, International Contemporary Ensemble, Robert Osborne, Peabody Southwell - David Lang/Mark Dion: Anatomy Theater (2019) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. I, Sarah Osborne
02. Justice Is Delivered!
03. Good Morrow and Welcome
04. Now, Gentlemen!
05. Man Seeks to Know
06. Mr. Strang!
07. Presently, I Shall Reveal
08. The Instruments Commonly Required
09. Interlude
10. Gentlemen, We Have Before Us
11. Clearly There Is Evil Here
12. My Heart
13. Gentlemen, We Have Yet Failed
14. Where Is Evil?
15. Too Bad the Doctor


Based on actual 18th-century texts, David Langs anatomy theater follows the astonishing progression of an English murderess from confession to execution and, ultimately, public dissection before a paying audience of fascinated onlookers. Through the miracle of opera, she sings through it all. Composed by David Lang, with libretto co-written by Lang and scenic designer Mark Dion, anatomy theater is a tuneful and grisly theatrical event that conjures a time when 'specialists' traveled from town to town in pre-modern Europe, conducting public dissections of the corpses of executed criminals, seeking evidence of moral corruption in the interior of the human body. And as Lang himself warns in the liner notes, its not for the squeamish and that includes the performers.

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