Browse: Rorem - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal

Few voices of this kind scale down effectively in song recital, but Bullock has a spectrum of vocal colours which she puts at intelligent service of the text - and in Malcolm Martineau she has... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

All five singers have clearly grasped the importance of Rorem's text-based conception of song, 'poetry as expressed through the voice' and they sing - albeit in resolutely English English which... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Seventeen of these 32 songs aren't otherwise available on disc, and they include some of Rorem's finest and most haunting. The utter simplicity that weaves a magic spell in Nantucket, the beautiful... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

If Rorem's songs aren't as well known as those of Copland or Cole Porter it's probably because they're more difficult to sing. The earliest here is from 1947 (The Lordly Hudson, on a poem by... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…