MARK ABEL, composer
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Scores for "Trois Femmes du Cinema," "Reconciliation Day," "Out the Other Side," "Two Scenes from The Book of Esther," "The Long March," "1966," "Approaching Autumn," "Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano," "The Elastic Hours," "Intuition's Dance," "Those Who Loved Medusa," "In the Rear View Mirror, Now," "The Invocation" and "The Benediction" can be obtained by request through this site's Contact page.

Scores for the song cycles "Four Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva," "The Ocean of Forgiveness," "The Palm Trees Are Restless," "The Dark-Eyed Chameleon," "Rainbow Songs" and the "Five Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke" are available for purchase from Classical Vocal Reprints at this link.

Perusal scores for Abel's works for voice and piano can be accessed through the links underneath the titles below. Perusal full scores for the opera "Home Is a Harbor" and the orchestral song cycle "The Dream Gallery" are also available by request.


HOME IS A HARBOR (piano/vocal score)
Act I
Act II
Act III

THE OCEAN OF FORGIVENESS
Five Poems of Joanne Regenhardt
(for mezzo or soprano)
Desert Wind
Sally's Suicide
In Love With the Sky
Reunion
Patience

(See the analysis of this cycle by Kathleen Roland-Silverstein in The Journal of Singing.
©2018 National Association of Teachers of Singing. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved)


THE PALM TREES ARE RESTLESS
Five Poems of Kate Gale
(for high or medium soprano)
The Storm Drain
Los Angeles
Crater Light
Shura
The Great Divorce


(See the analysis of this cycle by Kathleen Roland-Silverstein in The Journal of Singing.
©2016 National Association of Teachers of Singing. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved)


THE DARK-EYED CHAMELEON (for soprano)
The Burned Horizon
Full Sail
Premonition
Your Girl
Cataclysm

RAINBOW SONGS (for soprano)
It Was an Evening
Breezes Blow and Eagles Fly
La Sonnambula
The Guest


FIVE POEMS OF RAINER MARIA RILKE
(for soprano)
In This Town the Last House Stands
My Life is Not This Steeply Sloping Hour
All of You Undisturbed Cities
You Darkness, That I Come From
I Live My Life in Growing Orbits 

(See the analysis of this cycle by Judith Carman in The Journal of Singing.
©2014 National Association of Teachers of Singing. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved)


THE INVOCATION (solo song for mezzo soprano)

THOSE WHO LOVED MEDUSA (concert aria for soprano, piano and percussion)

IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR, NOW (for soprano, piano and organ)
The Long Goodbye
The World Clock
The Nature of Friendship

THE BENEDICTION (solo song for tenor or soprano)

THE DREAM GALLERY (piano/vocal reductions)
Helen (for soprano)
Todd (for baritone)
Naomi (for mezzo soprano)
Carol (for mezzo soprano)
Lonnie (for bass)
Luz (for alto)
Adam (for tenor)


INSTRUMENTAL WORKS

Out the Other Side (2021) – for violin, cello and piano (appears on the Delos CD "Spectrum")

The Long March (2021) – for flute, horn or bassoon, and piano (appears on the Delos CD "Spectrum")

Approaching Autumn (2020) – for cello and piano (appears on Jonah Kim's Delos CD "Approaching Autumn")

The Elastic Hours (2019) – for violin and piano (appears on the Delos CD "The Cave of Wondrous Voice")

Intuition's Dance (2018) – for clarinet and piano (appears on the Delos CD "The Cave of Wondrous Voice")

Reconciliation Day (2018) – for viola or violin or clarinet and piano (appears on the Delos CD "Spectrum")

Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano (2017) – premiered at Chamber Music Northwest, July 2018 (appears on the Delos CD "The Cave of Wondrous Voice")

Gentle Spirit (2008) – tone poem for digital orchestra

VOCAL WORKS

1966 (2022) – cycle for mezzo soprano and piano (appears on the Delos CD "Spectrum")

Trois Femmes du Cinema (2021) – cycle for soprano and piano (appears on the Delos CD "Spectrum")

Two Scenes from The Book of Esther (2020) – for soprano, mezzo, clarinet, violin and piano (appears on the Delos CD "Spectrum")

Four Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva (2019) – cycle for soprano, English horn or clarinet, and piano (appears on the Delos CD "The Cave of Wondrous Voice")

Those Who Loved Medusa (2017) – concert aria for soprano, piano and percussion (appears on the Delos CD “Time and Distance”)
 
The Invocation (2017) – solo song for mezzo soprano and piano (appears on the Delos CD “Time and Distance”)
 
The Ocean of Forgiveness: Five Poems of Joanne Regenhardt (2016) – cycle for mezzo/or soprano and piano (appears on the Delos CD “Time and Distance”)
 
In the Rear View Mirror, Now (2016) – cycle for soprano, piano and organ (appears on the Delos CD “Time and Distance”)
 
Home Is a Harbor (2014/2015) – chamber opera in three acts (appears on the Delos CD “Home Is a Harbor”)

The Palm Trees Are Restless: Five Poems of Kate Gale (2014) – cycle for soprano and piano (appears on the Delos CD “Home Is a Harbor”)

The Benediction (2012) – solo song for tenor/or soprano and piano (recorded by Hila Plitmann on the Delos CD “Time and Distance” and by Kyle Bielfield on the Delos CD "Stopping By")

Rainbow Songs (2011/2012) – cycle for soprano and piano (appears on the Delos CD “Terrain of the Heart”)

The Dream Gallery: Seven California Portraits (2009/2010) – song cycle for seven soloists and chamber orchestra (appears on the Delos CD of the same name)

The Dark-Eyed Chameleon (2007) – song cycle for soprano and piano (appears on the Delos CD “Terrain of the Heart”)

The True Believers (2006) – drama in three movements for soprano, baritone and digital orchestra

Mystic Brave Bird (2005) – elegy for mezzo soprano and digital orchestra

Five Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke (2004) -- song cycle for soprano and piano (appears on the Delos CD “Terrain of the Heart”)

One Long Peace (2003) – elegy for soprano and digital orchestra

The Girl Made of Wood: Seven Poems of Pablo Neruda (2001) – song cycle for soprano and digital orchestra
Poetry is the plough that turns up time, so that the deepest layer, its black earth, is on top. -- Osip Mandelstam
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