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Release Date: 27th Oct 2014
Catalogue No: CC72657
Label: Challenge Classics
Length: 66 minutes

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Richard A. Whiting, Haven Gillespie, Seymour Simons: Breezin’ Along With the Breeze

Work length2:40

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Cora Burggraaf, Calefax Reed Quintet

Copland: Sentimental Melody (Blues)

Work length2:04

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Cora Burggraaf, Calefax Reed Quintet

Britten: Cabaret Songs

Work length13:44

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Cora Burggraaf, Calefax Reed Quintet

I. Tell me the Truth about Love

Track length4:42

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II. Funeral Blues

Track length2:35

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III. Johnny

Track length4:17

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IV. Calypso

Track length2:10

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Weill, K: Dreigroschensuite

Work length16:55

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Cora Burggraaf, Calefax Reed Quintet

I. Ouverture

Track length2:12

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II. Moritat von Mackie Messer

Track length2:34

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III. Seeräuber Jenny

Track length2:44

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IV. Zuhälterballade

Track length3:06

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V. Finale

Track length6:19

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Scotto, V: La Petite Tonkinoise

Work length2:07

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Cora Burggraaf, Calefax Reed Quintet

Weill, K: Youkali

Work length5:41

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Cora Burggraaf, Calefax Reed Quintet

Gershwin: An American in Paris, tone poem

Work length18:16

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Cora Burggraaf, Calefax Reed Quintet

I. Allegretto grazioso

Track length8:03

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II. Andante ma con ritmo deciso

Track length4:56

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III. Allegro

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Weill, K: Surabaya Johnny (from Happy End)

Work length5:31

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Cora Burggraaf, Calefax Reed Quintet

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This Hybrid SACD presents a fascinating collaboration between the highly-regarded Calefax Reed Quintet and mezzo-soprano Cora Burggraaf. The album ‘The Roaring Twenties’ features the group’s own arrangements of works by Kurt Weill, George Gershwin, Benjamin Britten, and Aaron Copland, as well as other popular pieces of the period.

The Calefax Reed Quintet is a forward thinking group of musicians that arrange and perform music by composers past and present. Calefax’s repertoire spans many centuries, and includes approximately 200 works which have been written especially for them. The Dutch mezzo soprano Cora Burggraaf has been the recipient of many prizes including the 2009/2010 ECHO Rising Star Award. She has appeared at many of the world’s greatest opera houses, including La Scala in Milan, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and the Royal Opera House in London (for which she was awarded 'Most Promising Newcomer of the Year' by The Observer).

The album ‘The Roaring Twenties’ opens with “Breezin’ Along with the Breeze” a piece in the Charleston style which was made popular by the singer and actress Josephine Baker. The “Cabaret Songs” are a collaboration between the poet W.H. Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten. The texts are the fruits of Auden's wild time in Berlin in the early thirties. The celebrated Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) by Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill is an ode to down-and-outs, thieves, thugs, con men and whores of Victorian London. George Gershwin’s trip to Europe and sojourn in Paris had a significant impact on his career. He met Kurt Weill in Berlin and countless Parisian artists. More importantly, however, was his growing awareness of a uniquely American, jazz influenced style. In ‘An American in Paris’ Gershwin sketches the awestruck impressions of an American ambling through the chaotic Paris of the 1920s.

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