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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Dawn Upshaw sings Wolf, Strauss, Rachmaninoff, Ives & Weill
The song recital recorded here brings together five composers of vastly different persuasions. Ives, the inspired maverick, the first composer who captured the "feel" of America in music; Weill, who began life composing important "classical" scores and spent the last ten years of his life writing for movies and Broadway; Rachmaninoff, whose piano concerti and symphonies are known the world over; Strauss, Germany's last all-around genius; and Hugo Wolf, the only one among the five who devoted himself to song, to the exclusion of almost everything else. This recording was made early in Dawn Upshaw’s career after she took the First Prize of the 1985 Walter W. Naumburg Vocal Competition. Since then she has performed all over the world in works from Mozart to Messiaen, on both the opera and concert stage. She has championed contemporary music, giving first performances of over 25 works in the last decade. She has made over 50 recordings and won 4 Grammys. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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“Fassbaender is one of the most
intelligent vocalists around...the result is
a triumph. A captivating performance." CD REVIEW “Kurt Weill composed La complainte de la Seine in 1934, while he was living in France. It was first sung and recorded by Lys Gauty. In the introduction to the first verse, Weill weaves in a quote from the marching theme at the end of Die sieben Todsünden. The two are neatly linked here, as Brigitte Fassbaender sings the chanson directly after the ballet-chanté. Of all the opera singers who have recorded The Seven DeadlySins, Fassbaender's has always been a favourite.
She sings it in the original, higher key, and although some of the tempi chosen by Cord Garben seem a little slow, Fassbaender's luscious mezzo invests the work with a superb sense of world-weariness. All the other songs come from the cache of unpublished work that we first got to know in 1982 through Teresa Stratas's 'The Unknown Kurt Weill' (Nonesuch). Stratas gives the songs more urgency; Fassbaender seems relaxed by comparison, which is not to say that she doesn't extract every last ounce of irony from the lyrics, including one unique contribution from Jean Cocteau (Es regnet). The original issue had full texts and translations; here there are merely synopses. Nevertheless, at its modest price, this is highly recommended.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 “Of all the opera singers who have recorded The Seven Deadly Sins, Fassbaender's has always been my favourite version. She sings it in the original, high key, and although some of the tempi chosen by Cord Garben seem a little slow, Fassbaender's luscious mezzo invents the work with a superb sense of world-weariness.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2006 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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