Cold Mountain

Album by Jennifer Higdon & Miguel Harth-Bedoya

Cold Mountain is an opera by American composer Jennifer Higdon, premiered in 2015. The work combines contemporary classical orchestration with lyrical vocal writing and folk-inflected melodic material, blending modern harmonic language with dramatic pacing and marking Higdon's move into large-scale operatic composition within her career.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Cold Mountain: Act I, Scene 1: Bill Owens' farm: Peaches In The Summertime
    4:33
  2. 2.
    Cold Mountain: Act I, Scene 2: Confederate hospital, Raleigh, North Carolina: What Was His Name
    6:08
  3. 3.
    Cold Mountain: Act I, Scene 2: Inman's aria: The Metal Age
    6:09
  4. 4.
    Cold Mountain: Act I, Scene 3: A Churchyard on Cold Mountain: I Don't Like That Man
    4:30
  5. 5.
    Cold Mountain: Act I, Scene 4: Black Cove Farm - Ada meets Ruby: Who Ya' Talking' To?
    4:01
  6. 6.
    Cold Mountain: Act I, Scene 5: A gorge along a river: We Once Lived In A Land Of Paradise
    6:44
  7. 7.
    Cold Mountain: Act I, Scene 6: Early morning, Black Cove Farm: Sun's Up. You'll Eat Later...
    2:32
  8. 8.
    Cold Mountain: Act I, Scene 6: Ruby's aria: My Only Teacher Was Hunger
    6:34
  9. 9.
    Cold Mountain: Act I, Scene 6: Ada and Inman duet: Why Can't We?
    3:35
  10. 10.
    Cold Mountain: Act I, Scene 7: Cape Fear River: Mister, How Much To Ferry Me Across?
    2:36
  11. 11.
    Cold Mountain: Act I, Scene 8: The next morning, along the banks of the river: Look At Me, I'm Floating
    6:07
  12. 12.
    Cold Mountain: Act I, Scene 9: Black Cove Farm: Listen
    8:08
  13. 13.
    Cold Mountain: Act I, Scene 9: Teague's aria: A Fence is a Good Thing
    3:37
  14. 14.
    Cold Mountain: Act I, Scene 10: The Chain Gang: I Told You. I'm A Preacher!
    2:47
  15. 15.
    Cold Mountain: Act I, Scene 10: Ada and Inman duet: Come Back To Cold Mountain
    4:58

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Cold Mountain: Act II: Opening
    0:58
  2. 3.
    Cold Mountain: Act II, Scene 1: Lucinda and Inman duet: Is That All You Got?
    7:08
  3. 4.
    Cold Mountain: Act II, Scene 2: Interlude: Inman Walking
    1:09
  4. 5.
    Cold Mountain: Act II, Scene 3: Ada and Inman duet: Orion
    2:48
  5. 6.
    Cold Mountain: Act II, Scene 4: Stobrod's campsite: Bless You, Ruby
    6:11
  6. 7.
    Cold Mountain: Act II, Scene 5: Sara's cabin: Your Baby sick?
    6:31
  7. 8.
    Cold Mountain: Act II, Scene 6: Black Cove Farm: Funny Lookin' Scarecrow...
    4:31
  8. 9.
    Cold Mountain: Act II, Scene 7: Sara's cabin: Get Up! Quick!
    2:32
  9. 10.
    Cold Mountain: Act II, Scene 8: Quintet: I Should Be Cryin' But I Just Feel Numb
    2:41
  10. 11.
    Cold Mountain: Act II, Scene 9: Stobrod's campsite: Howdy, Strangers. Keep Playin'...
    4:51
  11. 12.
    Cold Mountain: Act II, Scene 10: Walking up Cold Mountain "Our Beautiful Country"
    4:17
  12. 13.
    Cold Mountain: Act II, Scene 10: Ada's aria
    4:40
  13. 14.
    Cold Mountain: Act II, Scene 11: Deep in the woods on Cold Mountain: I'm Lost
    3:30
  14. 15.
    Cold Mountain: Act II, Scene 12: Ruby and Ada's campsite: You Just Need To Rest. We'll Talk Later
    6:31
  15. 16.
    Cold Mountain: Act II, Scene 12: Chorus: Tell Her
    11:39
  16. 17.
    Cold Mountain: Act II, Scene 13: Black Cove Farm; Epilogue, nine years later
    2:20

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