Theatermania.com reviews “An Evening With Nathan Gunn” at the Cafe Carlyle in New York.
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March 31, 2011
March 29, 2011
Songs to be sung by Sarah Connolly at Alice Tully Hall
Here are some of the songs that Sarah Connolly is scheduled to sing at Alice Tully Hall on April 14 (but sung here by people other than Sarah Connolly):
Schumann: Maria Stuart Lieder, Op. 135
1. Abschied von Frankreich
2. Nach der Geburt ihres Sohnes
3. An die Koenigin Elisabeth
4. Abschied von der Welt
5. Gebet
Only the first of the three songs on the following video are scheduled for the April 14 recital:
Here is the great Welsh tenor Richard Lewis singing three songs by Peter Warlock from a recital in 1970 with Martin Isepp, piano.
- “Sleep”
- “Away to Triver”
- “The Fox”
I could not find a video of the following song. Here is a brief excerpt:
Again a song of which I could not find a video. Here is a brief excerpt:
Again I couldn’t find a video. Here is a brief excerpt:
Again I couldn’t find a video. Here is a brief excerpt:
Again no video, but here is a brief excerpt from “There was an old woman.” The Lincoln Center program says “There was an old lady.” I don’t know why the difference.
UPDATE: At first I was unable to find either a video or an MP3 excerpt for Dominic Muldowney’s “In Paris with You,” but commenter Melodiaavis kindly pointed out the following video is indeed at youtube:
It is one of the songs on the CD Tell Me the Truth about Love, an album of cabaret songs sung by Mary Carewe.
UPDATE: The actual program turned out to be a little different from the above. See entry of April 15.
March 29, 2011
In hte United States one can now buy MP3 songs at Amazon.com
And so I bought one song, “A Love Like This” sung by Renée Fleming. It is pleasant, she sings it with her somewhat dusky jazzy voice, but nothing terribly remarkable.
March 27, 2011
More Sony CD releases from Metropolitan Opera archives
“The next batch of releases in [Sony's Metropolitan Opera archival CD] series . . . comes in early May [2011]. Among the offerings, available for the first time on official (nonpirated) recordings, will be a 1960 broadcast of Beethoven’s 'Fidelio,' starring Birgit Nilsson and Jon Vickers, with Karl Böhm conducting; and Wagner’s 'Walküre,' from 1968, with Nilsson as Brünnhilde, Vickers as Siegmund, Leonie Rysanek as Sieglinde, Thomas Stewart as Wotan, Christa Ludwig as Fricka and the Croatian conductor Berislav Klobucar.”–New York Times
Also to be released are recordings of Le nozze di Figaro and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
Le nozze di Figaro:
Broadcast of January 28, 1961
Conductor: Erich Leinsdorf
Artists:
Lucine Amara
Roberta Peters
Mildred Miller
Kim Borg
Cesare Siepi
CD, amazon.com
CD, amazon.co.uk
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Broadcast of January 15, 1972
Conductor: Thomas Schippers
Artists:
Pilar Lorengar
James King
Theo Adam
Benno Kusche
Ezio Flagello
CD, amazon.com
CD, amazon.co.uk
March 24, 2011
Matthew Polenzani & Julius Drake in Boston
Matthew Polenzani, tenor, and Julius Drake, piano, performed Franz Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795, tonight at Jordan Hall in Boston. Both gave a superlative performance, even better than I had expected. Polenzani has a pleasant voice and demonstrated considerable dramatic intelligence, making all the songs interesting and moving. His gestures and facial expressions, never excessive, were always appropriate. There was excellent rapport between the two performers. It was a delight to hear both of them. The audience was very appreciative. There was one encore, Schubert’s “Im Abendrot.” In introducing it, Polenzani said that both he and Julius Drake had discussed possible encores, but that they had decided to take another person’s suggestion of “Im Abendrot.”
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Matthew Polenzani and Julius Drake were at WGBH Radio on Wednesday, where they were photographed and where they performed “Der Neugierige” from Die sch&ounl;ne Müllerin for broadcast on the radio. A recording of the broadcast is at http://www.wgbh.org/programs/-276/episodes/-26320.
March 24, 2011
Russian composer Igor Krutoy and his wife Olga have closed on a $48 million dollar unit on the twelfth floor of the Plaza in New York, reports the New York Post.
“Mr. Krutoy has recorded more than 100 songs in Russia and has collaborated with many music stars from that country, selling millions of albums world-wide. Last March, he played at Radio City Music Hall with opera star Dmitri Hvorostovsky,” reports the Wall Street Journal.
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March 23, 2011
March 23, 2011
Photo: Roger Mastroianni
Today on the radio on Around Noon, “Dee Perry welcomes the star of The Cleveland Orchestra’s Don Giovanni production — British baritone Simon Keenlyside — who’s onstage at Severance Hall this week.”
March 22, 2011
Sophisticated Ladies
“Cassandra Wilson, Diana Krall, Melody Gardot, Norah Jones, Renée Fleming and Ruth Cameron: the lineup of singers performing popular standards and vintage obscurities on ‘Sophisticated Ladies,’ the 25th-anniversary album of Charlie Haden Quartet West, is formidable. The 12-cut CD is the deepest immersion in the quartet’s moody retro film noir style since its 1999 album, ‘The Art of the Song,’ which featured the guest vocalists Shirley Horn and Bill Henderson.
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“The happiest surprise is Ms. Fleming’s voluptuously besotted rendition of ‘A Love Like This,’ composed by Victor Young as a theme for the 1943 movie ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls,’ with lyrics by Ned Washington. Ms. Fleming's rich, gliding voice evokes a woman wallowing in heedless sensual afterglow, her half-choked singing flooded with emotion.”–Stephen Holden, New York Times
March 22, 2011
Photos and vocal snippets from the Cleveland Orchestra’s Don Giovanni with Simon Keenlyside in the title role:
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Nathan Gunn and Camille Zamora sing “Là ci darem la mano,” with Julie Gunn, piano
