Jacob Will - The Bells & Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe (2017)

Bass-baritone Jacob Will made his New York Philharmonic debut as a soloist in the American premiere of the “Messa per Rossini,” a performance televised live nationwide. An experienced concert artist, Mr. Will has appeared with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Vladamir Ashkenazy and with the Cabrillo Festival under the baton of Dennis Russell Davies. He has sung with the San Francisco Symphony in the “St. Matthew Passion,” with the international Bach Festival of Schaffhausen, Switzerland, in the “St. John Passion,” and with the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra in Frank Martin’s “Le mystere de la Nativite.” A native of Harstville, South Carolina, Mr. Will attended Furman University and graduated from the University of South Carolina and the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. He participated in the Merola and Adler Fellowship Programs of the San Francisco Opera and has been a prizewinner in various international singing competitions including the Munich Competition and the Queen Elizabeth Competition of Brussels. On this release, Mr. Will sings the poems of Edgar Allan Poe, as set to music by composers Judith Cloud, N. Lincoln Hanks, John Valerio, and Tayloe Harding.

TRACKLIST

01. The Bells: No. 1, -
02. The Bells: No. 2, -
03. Lenore
04. Ulalume
05. 5 Edgar Allan Poe Songs: No. 1, Hear the Sledges with the Bells
06. 5 Edgar Allan Poe Songs: No. 2, Evening Star
07. 5 Edgar Allan Poe Songs: No. 3, Romance
08. 5 Edgar Allan Poe Songs: No. 4, Alone
09. 5 Edgar Allan Poe Songs: No. 5, A Dream Within a Dream