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The vinyl edition of The Wild Heart, the Nonesuch Records debut from composer Dylan Mattingly, performed by Contemporaneous with conductor David Bloom and vocal soloist Iarla Ó Lionáird, features two movements from The Transmutation Notebooks—“Ulysses Dances” and “Last Dance”—as well as Sunt Lacrimae Rerum (these are the tears of things). The two pieces sprang from Mattingly’s six-hour epic composition History of Life, which, as Jake Wilder-Smith says in his album liner note, “weaves together a wide array of traditions, styles, and source materials, chief among them Homer’s Odyssey and Charles Darwin’s account of his five-year expedition aboard the HMS Beagle.” Sunt Lacrimae Rerum (these are the tears of things) was written during the first year of the pandemic, while wildfires blazed in Mattingly’s native California. Composer John Adams says: “Dylan Mattingly is a true original whose music fills the listener with a sense of overflowing abundance ... He’s a genuine American Maverick in the true sense of the term.”
The vinyl edition of The Wild Heart, the Nonesuch Records debut from composer Dylan Mattingly, performed by Contemporaneous with conductor David Bloom and vocal soloist Iarla Ó Lionáird, features two movements from The Transmutation Notebooks—“Ulysses Dances” and “Last Dance”—as well as Sunt Lacrimae Rerum (these are the tears of things). The two pieces sprang from Mattingly’s six-hour epic composition History of Life, which, as Jake Wilder-Smith says in his album liner note, “weaves together a wide array of traditions, styles, and source materials, chief among them Homer’s Odyssey and Charles Darwin’s account of his five-year expedition aboard the HMS Beagle.” Sunt Lacrimae Rerum (these are the tears of things) was written during the first year of the pandemic, while wildfires blazed in Mattingly’s native California. Composer John Adams says: “Dylan Mattingly is a true original whose music fills the listener with a sense of overflowing abundance ... He’s a genuine American Maverick in the true sense of the term.”