Charles Ives: 30 Lieder "Romanzo Di Central Park"
30 Lieder "Romanzo Di Central Park"
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
- On the Counter; Two Little Flowers; Ilmenau; The Circus Band; An Night Song; Down East; Premonitions; The See'r; Songs my mother taught me; In the Alley; Mists; They are There; In Flanders Fields; The South Wind; My Native Land; Watchman; The Children's Hour; Evidence; The World's Wanderers; Slow March; Omens and Oracles; Those Evening Bells; Allegro; Evening; The Last Reader; To Edith; At the River; A Christmas Carol; The Light that is Felt; Romanzo (di Central Park)
- Künstler: Gerald Finley, Julius Drake
- Label: Hyperion, DDD, 2007
- Bestellnummer: 1968668
- Erscheinungstermin: 22.2.2008
Product-Information:
In a second disc of Ives’s songs, the unbeatable partnership of Finley and Drake again enthral their listeners and bring them to the emotional core of each work. The range of style and approach in Ives’s text-setting is startling—from simple, sentimental ballads to complex and strenuous philosophical discourses, sometimes encompassing the most dissonant and virtuosic piano parts, sometimes with the accompaniment pared down to an almost minimalist phrase-repetition. Even those composed in a superficially conventional or ‘polite’ tonal idiom usually contain harmonic, rhythmic or accentual surprises somewhere. A particular beauty is Mists, composed in 1910. The poem is by Ives’s wife Harmony—an elegy after her mother’s sudden death that year. The manuscript, written while on vacation at Elk Lake in the Adirondacks, is dated ‘last mist at Pell’s Sep 20 1910’. This exquisite and deeply felt setting, with its brume of Impressionistic harmonies in contrary motion, is among Ives’s most atmospheric songs. This thrilling collection also includes Ives’s War Songs and settings of Goethe.
Rezensionen
'Gerald Finley has everything and more in his darkly full-bodied voice to match the often formidable technical and expressive requirements of Ives's songbook - reinforced by Drake's elastic, expressive piano … This is a must-buy album' (The Times)
'Outstandingly well sung and played, equally well recorded, and highly recommendable to all lovers of fine songs and fine singing' (BBC Music Magazine)
'The variety of songs recorded here is extraordinary … Gerald Finley's warm baritone sits right inside Ives's soundworld, while Drake refuses to be fazed by the idealistic piano writing' (Classic FM Magazine)
'It's the best kind of fun. The astonishing range Ives exhibits in the 30 songs on the disc - some comic, others serious – Is astonishing. Finley, in even better voice than on the Barber CD, and Drake, relishing Ives' complexities, dig deep into them all' (Bay Area Reporter, USA)
- Tracklisting
- Details
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 1 On the counter
- 2 The circus band
- 3 Two little flowers (and dedicated to them)
- 4 Ilmenau
- 5 A night song
- 6 Down east
- 7 Premonitions
- 8 The see'r
- 9 Songs my mother taught me
- 10 In the alley
- 11 Mists
- 12 They are there!
In Flanders fields
- 13 Bearbeitung für Orchester / (D. Del Tredici)
- 14 The south wind
- 15 My native land
- 16 Watchman!
- 17 The children's hour
- 18 Evidence
- 19 The world's wanderers
- 20 Slow march
- 21 Omens and oracles
- 22 Those evening bells
- 23 Allegro
- 24 Evening
- 25 The last reader
- 26 To Edith
- 27 At the river
- 28 A christmas carol
- 29 The light that is felt
- 30 Romanzo (di Central Park)